The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 June 2017

More News from a Messy Desk in a Dusty Room

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I wrote in the previous post that changes were afoot... and now they've begun. Starting this week, most new reviews of our suppress...
26 June 2017

News from a Messy Desk in a Dusty Room

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The publication of The Dusty Bookcase  – the book – approaches. I spent several hours last week going over copy edits, which is one re...
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24 June 2017

Pour la fête de St-Jean-Baptiste, 1858

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Montreal's Crystal Palace as it was in preparation of the 1874 fête St-Jean-Baptiste,  sixteen years after this verse was composed b...
16 June 2017

A Forgotten Film of a Hidden Novel

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The Spring Issue of Canadian Notes & Queries  arrived in the mail yesterday, pushing aside all other reading. Sorry, Kenneth Orvis ...
05 June 2017

Frustration, Part II: Paint a Vulgar Picture

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So, how was your weekend? Regular readers will remember that I ended last week's post on  Henry C. Clayton's very, very bad Fr...
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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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