The Dusty Bookcase

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

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22 April 2025

The Man with the Midas Touch

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Sword of Desire Robert W. Tracy [Alvin Schwartz] New York: Arco, 1952 176 pages As far as I can tell, "Fort Crime!" is the first A...
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17 April 2025

A Gypsy in the Jazz Age; Or, Reader Meet Author

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Eyes of a Gypsy John Murray Gibbon Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1926 255 pages This past Saturday marked the sesquicentennial of John Murra...
13 April 2025

Thomas D'Arcy McGee: 200 Years

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Thomas D'Arcy McGee 13 April 1825, Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland 7 April 1868, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada RIP Related posts: 'O Ma...
10 April 2025

The Great Gatsby: 100 years

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I was on my lunch break when I first read of Jay Gatsby's death. This was in the back room of the Rockland Centre Sam the Record Man. Tw...
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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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