The Dusty Bookcase

A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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25 June 2021

Dustiest Bookcase: P is for Price-Brown

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Mac's of '37: A Story of the Can...

24 June 2021

Debout, Canadiens-français!

George William Alphred Chapman 13 December 1850, Saint-François-de-Beauce, Canada East 23 February 1917, Ottawa, Ontario RIP For la Fête de ...

14 June 2021

The Dustiest Bookcase: O is for Oxley

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). North Overland with Franklin J Macdonald Oxl...

11 June 2021

Love is a Long Shot on the Nose

The Calgary Herald , 29 September 1978 This weekend the 29th Toronto Jewish Film Festival presents Love on the Nose. Do you know it? I didn...

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About Me

Brian Busby: A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.

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