The Dusty Bookcase

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

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21 February 2022

A Woman Who Did

The Untempered Wind Joanna E. Wood Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1994 354 pages In Henry James Morgan's Types of Canadian Women , published in 1903...

16 February 2022

On Pierre Poilievre's Bookshelves

What with everything going on in Ottawa these days, my focus on things political has shifted from Parliament Hill to the hot tubs and bouncy...

15 February 2022

Valentine's Day Cathode Ray Tube Afterglow

Better than dreaming, look and you'll find Even more than the romance that's in your mind For the mor...

14 February 2022

The Worst Harlequin Valentine

The World's Worst Women Bernard O'Donnell Toronto: Harlequin, 1955 Related posts: Harlequin: Before the Romance Another Harlequin Va...

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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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