The Dusty Bookcase

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

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28 August 2023

One Non Blonde

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Incendiary Blonde Keith Edgar Toronto: National Publishing, 1945 126 pages When is a blonde not a blonde? When is a novel not a novel? Is a ...
21 August 2023

The Legs of Mary Roberts

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Much of this past weekend was spent rereading Horace Brown's 1947 Whispering City ; this in preparing its return to print as the next Ri...
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14 August 2023

Margaret Millar's Muskoka Murder Mystery

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The Weak-Eyed Bat Collected Millar: The First Detectives Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2017 My aunt and uncle had a cottage on ...
09 August 2023

On Robbie Robertson (w/ update)

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I don't mean to be an ass about this, particularly in light of such sad news, but do note that the New York Times' report on Robbie...
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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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