The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 January 2024

On the Modern Library Mrs. Spring Fragrance

The Modern Library is very dear to my heart. I discovered the imprint as an illiterate Kindergartner looking through his late father's b...

10 January 2024

O Lucky Man!

You Never Know Your Luck: Being the Story of a Matrimonial Deserter Gilbert Parker Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1914 328 pages The dust ...

08 January 2024

Canadian Notes & Queries at 114, Véhicule Press at 50, and a Few Favourite Forthcoming Things

A few days into the year and already a new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries . This one – number 114! – features writing by: Noelle All...

02 January 2024

Acadian Driftwood

The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia Prof. James De Mille Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1875 264 pages Like De Mille's A Strange Manusc...

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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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