The Dusty Bookcase

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

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26 January 2016

Remembering Ted Allan on His Hundredth

Today marks the centenary of Ted Allan’s birth. Though our lives overlapped by more than three decades, the only time I actually laid ey...

25 January 2016

Anne of the Island and Other Mid-Winter Fantasies

Just the thing to combat the seasonal blues, this new edition of Anne of the Island provides ample evidence of Tutis Classics ' li...

18 January 2016

Falling Hard for May Agnes Fleming

The Midnight Queen Mrs May Agnes Fleming New York: Hurst, [n.d.] 256 pages This review now appears, revised and rew...

12 January 2016

L'Influence d'un film; or, The KKK Saves the Day

'The Ku Klux Klan to the Rescue' D.C. Macdonald The Saint Andrew's College Review, Christmas 1915 Discovered quite by ch...

02 January 2016

Grant Allen Tells It Like It Was

The British Barbarians: A Hill-top Novel Grant Allen London: John Lane, 1895 I'm not typically one for novelists' Introducti...

01 January 2016

A Poet Laureate's 'Prayer for the New Year'

My Kitchen Window Edna Jaques Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1935 Related posts: Decades-Old Verse for the New Year by E.J. Pratt...

31 December 2015

'Farewell, Old Year' by James Alway Ross, MPP

Canada First and Other Poems James A. Ross Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1920 Related posts: On the Year's Last E...

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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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