The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 October 2020

An Unholy Harlequin Halloween

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This is the twelfth Dusty Bookcase Harlequin Halloween post. You know the drill by now: I share an old, odd, unsettling cover from the roman...
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26 October 2020

Nudism to Buddhism

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Skin Dive Joe Fisher Markham, ON: PaperJacks, 1977 184 pages His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote the preface to Joe Fisher's third book,  ...
19 October 2020

Armand Durand; or, A Summer Project

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Armand Durand; ou, La promesse accomplie     [Armand Durand; or, A Promise Fulfilled] Madame Leprohon [Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon;     t...
13 October 2020

M'Lord, I Am Not Guilty: Title, Cover, Confession

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The new Ricochet edition of Frances Shelley Wees's I Am Not Guilty arrived in my rural mailbox last week, meaning that it is well on it...
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12 October 2020

Doctor Logan's Ode for Thanksgiving Day

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Verse for the day by son of Antigonish J.D. Logan. This version is taken from his Songs of the Makers of Canada and Other Homeland Lyrics (...
14 September 2020

The Atomic Dale; or, The Mounties Mess Up?

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Dale of the Mounted: Atomic Plot Joe Holliday Toronto: Allen, [1959] 158 pages The ninth in the twelve-volume Dale of the Mounted s...
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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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