The Dusty Bookcase

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

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26 May 2025

On an Eminent Author's Lost Film

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A brief addendum to last week's post on Basil King's 1912 novel The Street Called Straight .    Seven Basil King novels have made it...
19 May 2025

The Long and Winding Street

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The Street Called Straight By the author of The Inner Shrine [Basil King] New York: Harper, 1912 415 pages Olivia Guion seems a most dislik...
13 May 2025

John Craig's Tuesday Night Movie: "When was the last time you saw a good film about a kidnapping?"

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An addendum to last week's post on If You want to See Your Wife Again... by John Craig . "When was the last time you saw a good mo...
05 May 2025

"A good kidnapping story always has wide appeal."

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If You Want to See Your Wife Again... John Craig London: Cassell, 1973 223 pages Struggling writer Dan Cramer once had a good gig. He spent ...
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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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