The Dusty Bookcase

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

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12 May 2026

A Wedding, but No Wedding Night; or, A Sorry, Tragic Tale of Two Solitudes (in two editions)

Antoinette de Mirecourt or, Secret Marrying and Secret Sorrowing Rosanna Leprohon Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973 200 pages Anto...

27 April 2026

In Canada's Green and Pleasant Land

As a Watered Garden Marian Keith [Mary Esther Miller MacGregor] Toronto; McClelland & Stewart, 1946 297 pages My Marian Keith collection...

20 April 2026

Robert Switzer, Esquire

A follow-up to last week's review of I Was Going Anyway by Robert Switzer . Robert Switzer's I Was Going Anyway as published as a ...

13 April 2026

Bringing It All Back Home

I Was Going Anyway Robert Switzer New York: Macmillan, 1961 121 pages Robert Switzer flew under my radar for decades, it was only last mon...

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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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