The Dusty Bookcase

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

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25 February 2025

The Case of the Queer Antiques Dealer

The Mystery of Cabin Island Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlop [c. 1960] 214 pages If you ever happen to vi...

22 February 2025

Elinor Glyn Saturday Movie Matinee

An addendum to last week's post on Beyond the Rocks by Elinor Glyn . A lost film found! I first read about Beyond the Rocks in univer...

17 February 2025

No Holiday Amusement

Beyond the Rocks: A Love Story Elinor Glyn New York: Macaulay, [1922] 327 pages In the afterglow of Valentine's Day comes a tale of forb...

14 February 2025

Harlequin Valentine Woman Hunt?

Be Still My Love June Truesdell Winnipeg: Harlequin, 1950 "The drama of exciting woman hunt." I don't understand. Shouldn'...

03 February 2025

Pardonable Levels of Violence

Tolerable Levels of Violence Robert G. Collins Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1983 241 pages Four years ago, while driving home from a ...

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About Me

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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