The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 February 2012

Freedom to Read Week: Generals Die in Bed (II)

The Ottawa Citizen , 2 June 1930 LONDON, June 2 – Slurs on British generals and attacks on the behavior of Canadian troops as set for...

28 February 2012

Freedom to Read Week: Generals Die in Bed (I)

The Ottawa Citizen , 30 May 1930 NEW YORK. May 30. – Charles Yale Harrison, youthful author of the book "Generals Die in Bed,...

27 February 2012

Freedom to Read Week: Episode

"A remarkable first novel about madness – its feelings, treatment and powers." — Books of the Month "Filth and...

26 February 2012

Freedom to Read Week: Noir Canada

Noir Canada : Pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique Alain Deneault, Delphine Abade and William Sacher Montreal: Éditions É...

25 February 2012

Harper Hockey Book Watch: Year Eight, Day 253

News today that may or may not contradict the hot tip our Prime Minister gave intrepid Jane Taber at his most recent Christmas party...

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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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