The Dusty Bookcase

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

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18 November 2019

I've been to Harlequin: Young Under the Influence

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Heart of Gold Marjorie Moore Toronto: Harlequin, 1967 Related posts: Songs Suggested by John Wesley White Arthur Stringer Under ...
12 November 2019

Three Little Women and One Big Spoiler

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Frederick Niven wrote  The Flying Years . I learned this as a teenager through a list of New Canadian Library titles printed in a copy o...
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11 November 2019

Remembrance Day

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Verse by Edna Jaques written the year after the Armistice. IN FLANDERS NOW              We have kept faith, ye Flanders' dead...
07 November 2019

A Dedication Born of Tragedy

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Purchased four years ago, The Miracle and Other Poems  set me back two dollars and change. That price says much about contemporary intere...
01 November 2019

Virna Sheard Sees November as a Hooded Friar

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Bookseller & Stationer , March 1905 Verse for the month by Virna Sheard (née Stanton), daughter of Coburg, Ontario, from  The Mira...
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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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