The Dusty Bookcase

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

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15 November 2021

No Weddings and Three Funerals

Quebec in Revolt Herman Buller Toronto: Swan, 1966 352 pages The cover has all the look of a 1960s polemic, but Quebec in Revolt is in fact...

11 November 2021

Remembering Calvin Dale Williamson

A sixty-page booklet published by William Southam , father of the Southam newspaper empire, Regimental Songs was distributed to members of...

01 November 2021

We All Win With May Agnes Fleming!

Who Wins?; or, The Secret of Monksworth Waste May Agnes Fleming New York: New York Book Company, 1910 180 pages A woman trudges by night, ba...

31 October 2021

A Harlequin Halloween Hobo

I can't be alone in finding this cover disturbing. Just what is going on? Is this woman terrified or has she lost her mind? Is she...

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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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