The Dusty Bookcase

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

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13 November 2023

Dick Tricks Chicks Into Hot Pix!

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Hot Star Robert W. Tracy [Alvin Schwartz] New York: Arco, 1952 179 pages Betty and Bob's honeymoon was a disaster, but don't blame t...
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11 November 2023

Remembrance Day

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Daniel Issac Vernon Eaton was the father of novelist Evelyn Eaton, whose 1940 international bestseller  Quietly My Captain Waits  was review...
02 November 2023

Abraham's Bosom and the Great Change of Life

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Abraham's Bosom Basil King New York: Harper & Brothers, 1918 54 pages A short story masquerading as a novella,  Abraham's Bosom ...
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31 October 2023

Harlequin Halloween Horror: So Much Satan!

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Jean Plaidy –  not her real name – wrote 191 novels.  Daughter of Satan  may be number 23, but I expect the authoress herself wouldn't ...
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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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