The Dusty Bookcase

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

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12 April 2010

Nablo in Hollywood

The only image I've been able to find of the Hollywood James Benson Nablo – and don't it look like crap. Blame attendees of the...

10 April 2010

The Mysterious Mister Nablo

The Long November James Benson Nablo New York: Dutton, 1946 I'm going to step out on a limb here and state, with confidence, t...

09 April 2010

Shorter Shelley

Poems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, ON: Chronicle, 1889) Bit of an Edward Gorey feel to it, don't you think? James McIntyre ha...

08 April 2010

Wildly Wayward Walt Whitman

To Toronto this evening for the launch of my friend George Fetherling's third novel, Walt Whitman's Secret , at Ben McNally Boo...

07 April 2010

D'Arcy McGee, All Compliment to Thee

James McIntyre's warm tribute to the great Thomas D'Arcy McGee , assassinated 142 years ago this morning. Poems of James McIn...

06 April 2010

Funny He Never Married

Ingersoll's 1897 Fireman and Police Banquet. Hardly a woman in sight. Today's James McIntyre poem is "Lines Addressed to an Old...

05 April 2010

McIntyre's Mammoth Ode

Let's get this out of the way, shall we. All seven thousand pounds. Poems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, ON: Chronicle, 1889)

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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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