The Dusty Bookcase

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

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11 November 2025

Remembrance Day

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The son of William and Ellen Dixon, Frank Percival Dixon was born on 16 April 1898 in Elkhorn, Manitoba, not far from the Saskatchewan borde...
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08 November 2025

Wild Geese on Film (Part 3): After the Harvest

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The third of three addendums to  the recent post about Martha Ostenso's 1925 bestselling novel . The only film adaptation of  Wild Geese...
04 November 2025

Wild Geese on Film (Part 2): Ruf der Wildgänse

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The second of three addendums to  the recent post about Martha Ostenso's 1925 bestselling novel . It's hard to know what to make of ...
01 November 2025

Wild Geese on Film (Part 1): Wild Geese

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The first of three addendums to the recent post about Martha Ostenso's 1925 bestselling novel . Released in the autumn of 1927, Wild Gee...
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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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