The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 December 2015

'Farewell, Old Year' by James Alway Ross, MPP

Canada First and Other Poems James A. Ross Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1920 Related posts: On the Year's Last E...

26 December 2015

Ten of the Best: Spanking Good Book Buys of 2015

Early morning on Boxing Day and I'm lying comfortably in bed. My late mother is to thank. She taught that there is something unseeml...

25 December 2015

Timely Verse from Christmas a Century Past

The Globe , 25 December 1915 A CHRISTMAS STAR Christmas chimes across the snow, Can ...

20 December 2015

Romance and the Psychopath's Daughter

No Pattern for Life Frances Shelley Wees The Star Weekly, 11 December 1955 Not so much novel as novella, No Pattern for Life came a...

13 December 2015

Kenneth Millar at 100; Ross Macdonald at 59

Kenneth Millar/Ross Macdonald: A Checklist Compiled by Matthew J. Brucolli Introduction by Kenneth Millar Detroit: Gale, 1971 Ken...

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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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