The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 June 2016

The Brexit Fix-it

Today in The Walrus , my take on the biggest story going: The Brexit Fix-it: How an obscure forty-year-old Canadian thriller might ...

24 June 2016

Celebrating la Fête in 19th-Century Massachusetts

Pamphlet-souvenir de la fête patronale des Canadiens- français de Lowell, Mass., le 24 juin 1891 Lowell, MA: Bureaux et atelier...

20 June 2016

Return to Miss Moneypenny's Fishing Lodge; or, Billy's Bad Trip

Return to Rainbow Country William Davidson Don Mills, ON: PaperJacks, 1975 186 pages This review now appears, revised and re...

19 June 2016

'My Dad an' I': Into the future none may look...

Bernard Freeman Trotter 16 June 1890 - 7 May 1917 RIP MY DAD AN’ I My dad an’ I we’re splendid chums, ...

07 June 2016

Am I the Only One Laughing with Leacock?

The Hohenzollerns in America; With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities Stephen Leacock Toronto: S.B. Gundy, 191...

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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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