The Dusty Bookcase

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

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27 June 2022

E.T. Cash In

P.E.T: Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his unearthly adventures Jude Waples New York: Avon, 1983 93 pages E.T. was the summer blockbuster of 198...

24 June 2022

'La Fête nationale' par Léon Lorrain

Léon Lorrain 1855 - 1892 RIP Verse for the day from Léon Lorrain's Les Fleurs poétiques, simples bluettes (Montreal: Beauchemin, 1890)....

20 June 2022

Good Times Never Seemed So Good

Caroline André Norton and Enid Cushing New York: Tor, 1983 320 pages Caroline was published in January 1983, eight months before Enid Cushi...

13 June 2022

An Old Novel of Misspent Youth

Blaze of Noon Jeann Beattie Toronto: Ryserson, 1950 353 pages The sixth winner of Ryerson's in-house All-Canada Fiction Award , the publ...

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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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