The Dusty Bookcase

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

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26 December 2024

The Very Best Reads of 2024: Hilliard's Hat-Trick

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With five days left in 2024, there's little chance I'll read and review another neglected book before the calendar turns... and so, ...
25 December 2024

'Cloches de Noël' by Jean Bruchési

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For the day, a poem by historian and diplomat Jean Bruchési from Coups d'ailes (Montreal: Bibliothèque de l'Action française, 1922)...
16 December 2024

Elinor Glyn's Christmas Ghost Story (and others)

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The Contrast and Other Stories Elinor Glyn London: Duckworth, 1913 312 pages As is typical of short story collections, this book is overshad...
09 December 2024

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2024... and many gifts!

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What a year! On day two, while returning from a grocery run in nearby Brockville, I stopped at a thrift store and found first editions of Gi...
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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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