The Dusty Bookcase

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

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18 July 2022

What Is a Canadian Fiction?

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Several months ago, The Dorchester Review  asked me to review David Staines'  A History of Canadian Fiction . Who am I to turn down an i...
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16 July 2022

Charles Sangster's Birthday Poem

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Son of Kingston, Charles Sangster was born two hundred years ago today. I can't claim to remember much of his verse, the following from ...
11 July 2022

Gothique Canadien

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Cameron of Lochiel [ Les Anciens Canadiens ] Phillipe[-Joseph] Aubert de Gaspé [trans Charles G.D.      Roberts] Boston: L.C.Page, 1905 287...
04 July 2022

A Forgotten Novelist's Hidden Debut

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Joan Suter was thirty-seven when her first novel, East of Temple Bar , was published. She'd begun her working life as a fashion illustra...
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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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