The Dusty Bookcase

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

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01 December 2022

'December' by S. Frances Harrison

An old poem for the New Month by daughter of Toronto Susie Frances Harrison (née Riley; a/k/a Seranus). This version comes from her second c...

30 November 2022

John McCrae: 150 Years

November 30, 1872, Guelph, Ontario January 28, 1918, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France RIP

28 November 2022

The Dustiest Bookcase: Z is for Zink (Again)

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Uprooted Lubor Zink Toronto: Longmans Ca...

21 November 2022

A Romance of Toronto: CanLit Most Verbose

A Romance of Toronto (Founded on Fact) Mrs Annie G. Savigny Toronto: William Briggs, 1888 229 pages The first chapter, 'Toronto a Fair M...

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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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