The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 June 2012

The True North...

From Canada 1962 , a proud publication of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics' Information Services Division, further evidence that we...

25 June 2012

The World's Most Unusual Detective Magazine!

© The Estate of Leo Orenstein Check out the gams! It took me a while to realize that that blonde's about to take a leap. Or is she...

24 June 2012

'Ô Canada! mon pays! mes amours!'

Monument George-Étienne Cartier For la Fête de la St-Jean, George-Étienne Cartier's 'Ô Canada! mon pays! mes amours!&#...

18 June 2012

Ralph Connor's Beautiful War of 1812

The Runner: A Romance of the Niagaras Ralph Connor [pseud. Rev. Charles W. Gordon] New York: Triangle, 1939 481 pages This ...

15 June 2012

Arthur Stringer Under the Influence

Emmeline Arthur J. Stringer The Canadian Magazine, vol. XVII, no. 3 (July 1901) Something less than not much of anything, the...

13 June 2012

Hector de Saint-Denys-Garneau at 100

Hector de Saint-Denys-Garneau 13 June 1912 - 24 October 1943 Paysage en deux couleurs La vie la mort sur deux collines Deux co...

11 June 2012

Monday Morning with Aphrodite

© The Estate of Leo Orenstein What better way to begin the work week than with Aphrodite ? Sadly, it seems that this particular edition...

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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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