The Dusty Bookcase

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

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22 July 2021

Dustiest Bookcase: Q is for Quarrington

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Service Paul Quarrington Toronto: Coach ...

13 July 2021

Fumbling Towards Legacy

Legacy of Fear Garnett Weston New York: W S Mill/William Morrow, 1950 245 pages The jacket illustration suggests a gothic romance, but Lega...

02 July 2021

Have Bomb – Will Travel

This Suitcase is Going to Explode Tom Ardies Calabasas, CA: Brash Books, 2021 220 pages Of all the books I've read in 2021, This Suitcas...

01 July 2021

"We first saw light in Canada..."

Verse for this Canada Day by E. Pauline Johnson – Tekahionwake – from Canadian Born (Toronto: Morang, 1903), her second volume. CANADIAN ...

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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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