The Dusty Bookcase

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

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28 August 2023

One Non Blonde

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Incendiary Blonde Keith Edgar Toronto: National Publishing, 1945 126 pages When is a blonde not a blonde? When is a novel not a novel? Is a ...
21 August 2023

The Legs of Mary Roberts

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Much of this past weekend was spent rereading Horace Brown's 1947 Whispering City ; this in preparing its return to print as the next Ri...
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14 August 2023

Margaret Millar's Muskoka Murder Mystery

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The Weak-Eyed Bat Collected Millar: The First Detectives Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2017 My aunt and uncle had a cottage on ...
09 August 2023

On Robbie Robertson (w/ update)

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I don't mean to be an ass about this, particularly in light of such sad news, but do note that the New York Times' report on Robbie...
07 August 2023

Victorian Ladies in Day-Glo Green and Orange

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Published thirty years ago by McGill-Queen's University Press,  Silenced Sextet  received laudatory reviews, but not its due. It is an e...
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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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