The Dusty Bookcase

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

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24 March 2025

Joyce Boyle: Early Research

An addendum to Saturday's post on The Stone Cottage Mystery . Emily Joyce Boyle was born on April 6, 1901, missing that year's cens...

22 March 2025

Tumbling Towards Mystery

The Stone Cottage Mystery Joyce Boyle Toronto: Macmillan, 1961 151 pages A big city girl made unhappy by her family's move to a small to...

21 March 2025

Dusty Bookcase Unrecognized

Something strange. Yesterday, the Toronto Star printed an opinion piece that features a 2017 Geoff Robins photo of my St Marys library. ...

20 March 2025

Dusty CanLit Winter Reviews

Blogs. They were done in by social media, right? In my own small way I helped hasten the decline. Back in 2011, after years of reluctance, ...

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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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