The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 January 2012

Suggestive Harlequins: A Romantic Threesome

To Please the Doctor Marjorie Moore 1959 Doctor in Bondage Jean S. MacLeod 1961 Strange Request Marjorie Bassett ...

25 January 2012

'Burns' by James McIntyre, the Cheese Poet

The Robert Burns Memorial Square Dorchester (né Dominion), Montreal Photograph by Wally Gobetz BURNS The following ode wa...

22 January 2012

No Lady Before Judith Hearne

A Bullet for My Lady Bernard Mara [pseud. Brian Moore] New York: Gold Medal, 1955 As titles go, A Bullet for My Lady ain't so ...

20 January 2012

The Dominatrix of Time (and other fantasies)

There are no whip-wielding women in Masters of Time , green-skinned or otherwise. In fact, the only female so much as mentioned in the ...

18 January 2012

Wasting Time on A. E. van Vogt

Masters of Time A. E. van Vogt New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967 Masters of Time opens with poor Norma Matheson scrambling up a sl...

16 January 2012

The Mystery Writer Mystery Unravels

'Keeping an Eye Out for Pamela Fry' pays off: A writer friend informs that Pamela Fry, author of Harsh Evidence and The W...

10 January 2012

The Canadian Publishers

McClelland & Stewart swallowed up by Random House Canada McClelland and Stewart "The Canadian Publishers" 1906 ...

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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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