The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 September 2010

Trudeau Redux: Compare and Contrast

John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Pierre Trudeau, Parliament Hill, 23 December 1969. Chad Kroeger and Stephen Harper, 24 Sussex Drive, 11 Ap...

28 September 2010

Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Ladies' Man

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Study in Public Seduction Michelle Le Grand and Allison Fay Don Mills, ON: Greywood, 1972 ...

27 September 2010

Community Service

The Globe & Mail , 26 September 1953

21 September 2010

When Liberace Winks at Bobby Gimby

When Liberace Winks at Me Bobby Gimby and Johnny Wayne Toronto: BMI Canada, 1954 One day I'm arguing with a friend that earlier times we...

20 September 2010

Amazon Customer on Michel Tremblay's Possible Potential

The Globe & Mail , 15 May 1974 Related posts: Homophobes and Book Burners Weigh In Amazon Customer Review: 'unde...

18 September 2010

What About the Children?

Monday's post on Edith Lelean Grove s was running long, so I never did get to the drawings that feature in her Everyday Children . Nu...

13 September 2010

Hurray for the Crippled Children's Bus!

Everyday Children Edith Lelean Groves Toronto: The Committee in Charge of the Edith L. Groves Memorial Fund for Underprivileged Chil...

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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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