The Dusty Bookcase

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

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02 December 2025

The Best Canadian Books in English (as of 1925)

One hundred years ago today, the Toronto Globe published a short article about a YMCA book contest. The Association had asked participants ...

27 November 2025

Discussing Canadian Lit With ChatGPT: Alternative Facts or Alternate Universe?

A brief addendum to the recent post on The Magpie . It has now been three years since ChatGPT was released to the public. I was AI-curious...

14 November 2025

The Great War and Its Discontents

The Magpie Douglas Durkin Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974 351 pages Craig Forrester has received a telephone call from Mrs Gilber...

12 November 2025

An Evening With Merrickville Authors

For those in the area, this Thursday evening I will be joining Dan Black, Bill Galbraith, Vic Suthren, Carol Williams, and moderator Omar Si...

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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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