The Dusty Bookcase

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

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28 February 2009

Canada's Olympians (Part IV)

Bottoms Up Jock Carroll Covina, CA: Collectors Publications, 1967 Strange to think that this novel, which receives no mention in...

22 February 2009

Freedom to Read

Jean-Charles Harvey Bootlegger d'intelligence en période de prohibition The first day of Freedom to Read Week arrives and thoughts turn ...

20 February 2009

Canada's Olympians (Part III)

The English Governess Miles Underwood [pseud. John Glassco] Paris: Ophelia, 1960 [sic] In his seventy-one years, John Glassco ...

14 February 2009

Harlequin: Before the Romance

Related posts: Another Harlequin Valentine This Year's Harlequin Valentine A Harlequin Valentine from Day Keene Ro...

12 February 2009

Canada's Olympians (Part II)

Under the Hill Aubrey Beardsley, completed by John Glassco Paris: Olympia, 1959 Beardsley devoted a good portion of his short li...

06 February 2009

Canada's Olympians (Part I)

The Whip Angels Selena Warfield [pseud. Diane Bataille] New York: Olympia Book Society, 1968 184 pages This review no...

31 January 2009

The Mysterious Judith Hearne

The Lonely Passion of Miss Judith Hearne [?] Brian Moore Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958 Writing my first post , I was reminded tha...

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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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