The Dusty Bookcase

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

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24 June 2024

Fifteen Favourite Quebec Novels pour la Fête

For the day, a list of fifteen novels by Quebecers – born and bred – all deserving more attention. In each case, the image presented is the ...

17 June 2024

A Nova Scotian Writes Ontario Gothic

Morgan's Castle Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] New York: Abelard & Schulman, 1964 188 pages An uncredited dust jacket of mysterious ...

10 June 2024

Three Weeks in Thirteen Images

An addendum to last week's post on Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks . Of all the illustrations depicting young Paul Verdayne and his dark ...

04 June 2024

Three Weeks a Lady

Three Weeks Elinor Glyn New York: Macaulay, [c. 1924] 245 pages I misread "IMMORTAL ROMANCE" as "IMMORAL ROMANCE," which...

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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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