The Dusty Bookcase

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

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28 September 2015

Ricochet! Ricochet!

Arriving in bookstores as I write, books seven and eight in Véhicule's Ricochet Books series. Following visits to Niagara Falls (Jam...

26 September 2015

Not Any Old Author, a Canadian Author

Night Without Darkness Kenneth Orvis [pseud Kenneth Lemieux] New York: Pan, 1968 Related post: 'A Relentless Story of the Hel...

21 September 2015

'A Relentless Story of the Hell of Drug Addiction'

The Damned and the Destroyed Kenneth Orvis [pseud. Kenneth Lemieux] London: Dobson, 1962 How many novels begin with the protagonist ...

14 September 2015

Margaret Laurence's Cauliflower Soup

"I'm going out for more milk." "You're kidding." "It takes an awful lot." "We have crea...

08 September 2015

Bewitched, Bothered, but Not Bewildered

Murder without Regret E. Louise Cushing [New York]: Arcadia House, 1954 There are two ways to approach this novel: the first is as a...

07 September 2015

Learn to Write the Richard Rohmer Way!

The Toronto Star , 6 March 1984 Related posts: Career Advice from A.E. van Vogt Arthur Stringer's Recipe for Commercial Su...

31 August 2015

Langevin's Masterpiece; McClelland's Disappointment

Orphan Street [ Une Chaîne dans le parc ] André Langevin [trans., Alan Brown] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976 287 pages ...

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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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