The Dusty Bookcase

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

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09 October 2023

Hidden Thanksgiving Day Verse

Lines for the day from Canada and Other Poems , Thomas Frederick Young's lone volume of verse. Published in 1887 by Hunter, Rose, the ta...

03 October 2023

One Woman's Boy's Own Adventure

Gold in Mosquito Creek Dickson Reynolds [Helen Dickson Reyonds] London: Museum Press, [1952] 192 pages Strapping fifteen-year-old Randy Pier...

18 September 2023

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Self-Improvement

Pagan Love John Murray Gibbon Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922 310 pages The start of this novel sees a suicide thwarted. Walter Olip...

05 September 2023

Summer of a Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Sexpo '69 Winston Smith [pseud Charles E. Fritch] North Hollywood: Brandon House, 1969 176 pages The years leading to '69 have not b...

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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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