The Dusty Bookcase

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

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06 October 2013

The Heart Accepts It All in Knowlton: An Invitation

John Glassco with 'housekeeper' Mary Elizabeth Wilson, Knowlton, QC, 1940 Join me this coming Saturday for the Eastern Towns...

05 October 2013

Tecumseh: 200 Years

Tecumseh c. 1768 - 5 October 1813 RIP from Tecumseh: A Drama Charles Mair Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1886

04 October 2013

Gwethalyn Graham Memorial Plaque

A week today, 11 October, will see the installation of a plaque dedicated to the memory of novelist Gwethalyn Graham at the Writers...

03 October 2013

M is for Marginalia

30 September 2013

Not Our Backwoods, Not Catharine Parr Traill

Backwoods Hussy Hallan Whitney [pseud. Harry Whittington] New York: Original Novels, 1952

28 September 2013

L is for League of Canadian Poets

The League of Canadian Poets The League of Canadian Poets n.p.: The League of Canadian Poets, 1980 My present situation vis-à-vis ...

22 September 2013

Montreal's Murderous Murder Mystery Writer (and the transvestite brother he passed off as his wife)

Montreal has produced some pretty awful writers, but the worst must surely be Nicholas A. Rossi. We don't talk about Rossi. Never d...

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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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