The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 December 2010

In Search of George Pepki, Poet

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Yesterday's Globe and Mail featured a short work of fiction by Preston Manning . Titled "2018: The new health care", it...
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26 December 2010

The 75-Year-Old Virgin and Others I Acquired

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Published in 1935 by les Éditions du Quotidien, a first edition by one of the most important Canadian writers of the twentieth century. I...
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25 December 2010

A Merry Christmas to All

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22 December 2010

Hard Copy

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Mention here is a bit late, but not so much that one can't pick up a copy as a last minute stocking stuffer. The new issue of Cana...
20 December 2010

Reclaiming Mark Strand

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The Planet of Lost Things Mark Strand (William Pène Du Bois, illus.) New York: Potter, 1982 We're a funny lot, forever going ...
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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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