The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 December 2016

'The year is dead, for Death slays even time...'

Verse for the day from the 1935 revised edition of Our Canadian Literature , an anthology of verse selected by the poet's friends B...

27 December 2016

The Ten Best Book Buys of a Very Bad Year

An annus horribulus , the death of David Bowie ten days in cast a pall that just wouldn't lift. These have been days of loss and unw...

25 December 2016

'Christmas, 1916' by Robert Stanley Weir

from After Ypres and Other Poems Robert Stanley Weir Toronto: Musson, 1917 Related posts: A Century-Old Prayer for C...

24 December 2016

A Century-Old Prayer for Christmas

from Canada First and Other Poems James A. Ross Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1920 Related posts: Timely Verse from a Chr...

21 December 2016

A 1980s Duddy Kravitz?

I Lost It All in Montreal Donna Steinberg New York: Avon, 1983 259 pages This review, revisited and revised, now appears in my...

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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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