The Dusty Bookcase

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

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31 March 2013

'Communion Pascale' de Émile Nelligan

From Franges d'Autel (Montreal: n.p., 1900) Related posts: 'The Easter Parade, 1915' by Robert Stanley Weir Uncollec...

26 March 2013

Condensed CanLit

Why Shoot the Teacher Max Braithwaite Reader's Digest Condensed Books Montreal: Reader's Digest, 1981 Our local public libr...

22 March 2013

Dining with Mister Dressup

Air Fare: The Entertainers Entertain Allan Gould Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1984 Okay, so I never dined with Mr Dressup, but I did on...

20 March 2013

Guelph: City of Galt, Gay, Glyn, Graves and Girdles

March Break. Others head south and we go to Guelph. I've never been much taken with March Break; spring seems so fleeting and I d...

18 March 2013

Here Comes Sugar-Puss!

The Spring issue of Maisonneuve hits the stands today. Flip it over and you'll find this on the back cover: ( cliquez pour agra...

17 March 2013

Thomas D'Arcy McGee's 'Home-sick Stanzas'

Thomas D'Arcy McGee 13 April 1825 - 7 April 1868 RIP from Selections from Canadian Poets Edward Hartley Dewart, editor ...

15 March 2013

Alpha, Beta and Other Crap Sold by Amazon

Corporate greed knows no bounds beyond those imposed by prostate government ministers. Anyone seeking evidence should look no further...

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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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