The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 October 2021

A Harlequin Halloween Hobo

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I can't be alone in finding this cover disturbing. Just what is going on? Is this woman terrified or has she lost her mind? Is she...
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29 October 2021

The Scotts of Quebec City

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Having praised Quebec City and its  plaques bleu on Wednesday , I now condemn. And with good reason.  As one may divine, the above – 755, ru...
27 October 2021

Blue Plaque Special: Quebec City Edition

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In the early days of the Dusty Bookcase – more than twelve years ago!  –   I heaped praise  upon London's blue plaques, singling out fav...
12 October 2021

A Shadow Moves Through a Shadowy Underworld

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The Shadow Arthur Stringer New York: Century, 1913 302 pages Time was when Jim Blake could pass unnoticed through the seedier side of New Yo...
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11 October 2021

Thanksgiving Verse by J.K. Foran

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Poetry for this Thanksgiving Day by J.K. Foran, KC, Lit D, LL D., from the posthumously published collection  A Garland: Lectures and Poems ...
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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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