The Dusty Bookcase

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

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22 April 2019

Millar's Experiment in Springtime in Springtime

Experiment in Springtime Collected Millar: Dawn of Domestic Suspense Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2017 Margaret Millar...

21 April 2019

'The Easter Winds' by Lilian Leveridge

Easter verse written in the midst of the Great War by Anglican Lilian Leveridge from her debut collection Over the Hills of Home and Oth...

17 April 2019

Canadian Notes & Queries in Springtime

Behold, Canadian Notes & Queries #104 has arrived! Here it is on the hood of our aging Jeep Liberty. I look forward to each and...

08 April 2019

The Mystery Anthology Mystery Solved?

Canadian Mystery Stories Alberto Manguel, editor Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991 288 pages My review of this, the eleven...

02 April 2019

The Return of Jimmie Dale, Alias Gray Seal

Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gray Seal Michael Howard n.p.: The Author, 2017 375 pages My final year as a trick-or-treater was spent walk...

01 April 2019

Now That April's Here, Virna Sheard's 'April'

The Miracle and Other Poems Virna Sheard Toronto: Dent, 1913 Related posts: 'When April Comes!' by Virna Sheard Vers...

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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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