The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 December 2025

The Three Best Reads of 2025 (two are in print!)

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An annus horribilis , wouldn't you say? Strange, too! Never thought I'be be flying the flag of Greenland from the porch of our Upper...
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26 December 2025

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2025 (and four gifts!)

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This year, Simon Thomas of Stuck in a Book and Tea or Books fame made a fourth stab at what he refers to as "Project 24," his go...
25 December 2025

Wishing a Merrie Christmasse Untoe Ye

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Verse on this Christmas Day by daughter of Southern Ontario Jean Blewett from her debut collection,  Heart Songs , first published 1897 by G...
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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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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