The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 October 2022

A WTF Harlequin Halloween

Murder — Queen High Bob Wade and Bill Miller Toronto: Harlequin, 1951 Over the years, the Dusty Bookcase has shared some very frightening co...

29 October 2022

Reverend King's Slow and Simple Swan Song

Satan as Lightning Basil King New York: Harper, 1929 280 pages Basil King is the only Canadian to have topped the year-end list of bestselli...

25 October 2022

May Agnes Fleming: Lost Lady of CanLit

No surprise that I'm a devotee of Lost Ladies of Lit, "the podcast dedicated to dusting off books by forgotten women writers."...

12 October 2022

Quebec City Noir

Whispering City Horace Brown Pickering, ON: Global Publishing, 1947 190 pages Whispering City may be Canada's very first film noir. Thi...

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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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