The Dusty Bookcase

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

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26 April 2021

Nothing Tops Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street

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Recently arrived titles at Montreal's The Word Bookstore . Palmer's epic and the others depicted can be purchased through the store...
18 April 2021

Arthur Stringer Unshackled (then bowdlerized)

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The Wife Traders: A Tale of the North Arthur Stringer Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1936 319 pages Tooloona: A Novel of the North Arthur Stri...
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10 April 2021

Remembering Fraser Sutherland

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I'm honoured to have been asked by the  Globe & Mail  to write an obituary of poet, critic, journalist, biographer, and lexicographe...
05 April 2021

The Dustiest Bookcase: M is for Machar

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Marjorie's Canadian Winter: A Story ...
04 April 2021

'Easter Lilies' by Agnes Maule Machar

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For this Easter Sunday, verse by Agnes Maule Machar, daughter of Church of Scotland clergyman John Machar, from her 1899 collection Lays of ...
01 April 2021

Montreal Most Strange (w/ mysterious directions)

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Blood on My Rug E. Louise Cushing New York: Arcadia, 1956 223 pages Miss Talmadge visits her St Catherine Street bookstore on a Sunday after...
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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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