The Dusty Bookcase

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

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21 December 2025

Dusty CanLit Autumn Reads

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What a difference a season makes, twenty-two thousand little hours. Three months ago, I was bemoaning the slim summer haul . Well, this past...
16 December 2025

Exhuming McCarthy

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The Investigator: A Narrative in Dialogue Reuben Ship London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1956 119 pages Joseph McCarthy was not long for this w...
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08 December 2025

The 1925 Globe 110: Less Motoring, More Reading

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Much to my dismay, this year's Globe 100 was published late last month. I thought I'd made it clear last year that November is too e...
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02 December 2025

The Best Canadian Books in English (as of 1925)

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One hundred years ago today, the Toronto Globe published a short article about a YMCA book contest. The Association had asked participants ...
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27 November 2025

Discussing Canadian Lit With ChatGPT: Alternative Facts or Alternate Universe?

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A brief addendum to  the recent post on  The Magpie . It has now been three years since ChatGPT was released to the public. I was AI-curious...
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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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