The Dusty Bookcase

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

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01 January 2026

'To the New Year,' 'To the New Year,' and More

For the day, the very first poem in Mary Morgan's very first collection of verse, Poems and Translations (Montreal: J. Theo. Robinson, ...

29 December 2025

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

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

26 December 2025

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

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

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

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

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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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