The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 April 2009

National Poetry Month Bookend

The end of National Poetry Month. Can't say it was much different from March – at least not here in little Saint Marys. I close with t...

25 April 2009

Cardinal Villeneuve's Folly

Les Demi-civilisés Jean-Charles Harvey Montreal: Éditions du Totem, 1934 Seventy-five years ago today Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villen...

24 April 2009

Drapeau, Destruction and a Blue Plaque Candidate

I do not like you Jean Drapeau, And well I know the reason why; Your concentration on the cash ...

23 April 2009

Blue Plaque Special

The launch of Project Bookmark Canada today, an initiative that brings to mind a recurring question: Where are our blue plaques? Even the...

17 April 2009

The Mysterious Question Mystery

The Canadian Century: English Canadian Writing Since Confederation A. J. M. Smith, editor Toronto: Gage, 1973 The Canadian Century is the t...

11 April 2009

'THE NEONS GO UP ON MONTREAL'

Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street Al Palmer Toronto: New Stand Library, 1949 Sugar-Puss is Gisele Lepine — not Gisèle Lépine — a far...

05 April 2009

'...a helluva town to come back to'

Montreal Confidential Al Palmer Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 Readying for a trip to my hometown, I reach for this cheap little pa...

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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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