The Dusty Bookcase

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

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28 May 2018

A Publisher's Worst Book?

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A sunny weekend in St Marys was made brighter still when I finally finished  Arctic Rendez-vous , the sixth novel by part-time pilot...
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22 May 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: B is for Beresford-Howe

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...
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21 May 2018

The Queen is Dead

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Verse for Victoria Day, composed by Jean Blewett upon news of the monarch's death. This version is taken from The Cornflower and O...
17 May 2018

A Teenage Rock Photographer Between the Covers

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Longtime readers may remember me writing here  of teenage adventures smuggling cameras into concerts. Sadly, in middle age, those acts...
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14 May 2018

Les Plouffe: An Amazon Customer is Disappointed

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Related posts: Homophobes and Book Burners Weigh In The Return of the Amazon Customer Review Much Ado About Anne Sick-Mi...
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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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