The Dusty Bookcase

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

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15 November 2012

The Kidnapping of the President for Christmas

The Kidnapping of the President Charles Templeton Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1974 Charles Templeton [...] will probably hav...

12 November 2012

About Those Old New Canadian Library Intros (with some stuff on Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese)

Before I'm accused of being ungrateful, allow me this: The old New Canadian Library was good for this country. As a university stu...

11 November 2012

Remembrance Day

A Canadian Twilight and Other Poems of War and Peace Bernard Freeman Trotter Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1917

10 November 2012

Canada's Great War Poets: Bernard Freeman Trotter

Bernard Freeman Trotter 1890 - 1917

09 November 2012

Canada's Great War Poets: Hartley Munro Thomas

Hartley Munro Thomas 1896 - 1970

08 November 2012

Canada's Great War Poets: Frank Prewett

Frank James Prewett 1893 - 1962

07 November 2012

Canada's Great War Poets: John McCrae

John Alexander McCrae 1872 - 1918

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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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