The Dusty Bookcase

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

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01 November 2014

'Naughty Johnnie Frost'

NAUGHTY JOHNNIE FROST "Little Leaf," said young Jack Frost, ...

31 October 2014

The Most Horrifying Harlequin Halloween Ever!

The Corpse Came Back Amelia R. Long Toronto: Harlequin, 1950 Related posts: A Harlequin Halloween Another Harlequin Hall...

27 October 2014

Loving the Mayor of Toronto

Firebrand Rosemary Aubert Toronto: Harlequin, 1986 Breathless, she couldn't say anything, and taking her silence as acquiescence...

23 October 2014

Sex and the Trudeaus: The Bachelor Canada

Sex and the Single Prime Minister Michael Cowley [Don Mills, ON]: Greywood, 1968 The Naked Prime Minister Michael Cowley [Don M...

20 October 2014

Sex and the Trudeaus: Son and Hair

Justin Trudeau's memoir was released this morning, two days after what would've been his father's 95th birthday, one year (l...

18 October 2014

Amazon Customers: Mavis Gallant Was a Stuck Up Intellectual Who Wouldn't Deliver Her Books

A bonus: Related posts: Homophobes and Book Burners Weigh In The Return of the Amazon Customer Review Much Ado Abou...

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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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