The Dusty Bookcase

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

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22 May 2023

Petticoat Discipline, Please

The Tempestuous Petticoat [ A Chicago Princess ] Robert Barr London: Collins, [1908] 200 pages Proper Englishman Rupert Tremorne serves as p...

12 May 2023

That Only a Mother: The Best of the Best

'That Only a Mother' The Best of Judith Merril Judith Merril New York: Warner, 1976 254 pages The Best of Judith Merril sees an an...

01 May 2023

L.R. Wright Before She Became L.R. Wright

Neighbours Laurali Wright [L.R. Wright] Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1979 258 pages There's so much wrong with this jacket illustration...

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...

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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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