The Dusty Bookcase

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

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27 April 2023

New Perspectives on Brian Moore

Received in the post yesterday, the latest Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. A special issue dedicated to the work of Brian Moore, it feat...

19 April 2023

Love During Wartime

Return to Today Margerie Scott London: Peter Davies, 1961 213 pages Vanessa Gray and Don Temple met in a streamy wartime canteen. She was an...

14 April 2023

A Very Acadian Scandal

Quietly My Captain Waits Evelyn Eaton New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1943] 355 pages I first learned of Louise de Freneuse last autumn ...

27 March 2023

A Crooked Cousin in a Cunning Cottage

Dove Cottage Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] London: Abelard-Schulman, 1958 192 pages Jan Hilliard's third novel, its curtain rises on th...

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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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