The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 April 2024

Of Cannibals and Christians

The Great Taboo Grant Allen New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891 271 pages Reviewing Gilbert Parker's The Right of Way a while back, I...

17 April 2024

Morley Callaghan's Red Ryan Rocket

More Joy in Heaven Morley Callaghan New York: Random House, 1937 278 page s It's been decades since Intro to CanLit II, my second introd...

16 April 2024

Of Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns, and David Richard Beasley

Canadian Authors You Should Know is a self-published book written by a man who counts himself amongst those you should know. Is that n...

08 April 2024

Turn around, bright eyes (just don't look up)

Eclipse of the Heart Mary Lyons Toronto: Harlequin, 1985 Perhaps not a total eclipse, but then it's only 189 pages. Update: Our home dur...

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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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