The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 February 2016

Familiarity Breeds Content

The Measure of a Man: A Tale of the Big Woods Norman Duncan New York: Revell, 1911 The Measure of a Man is a novel I thought I&#...

17 February 2016

The Strange Satanic Canada of a Future Past

For My Country [ Pour la patrie: roman du XXe siecle ] Jules-Paul Tardivel [Sheila Fischman, trans] Toronto: University of Toronto...

14 February 2016

C'mon, It's Harlequin Valentine Time

Crime on My Hands Carl G. Hodges Toronto Harlequin, 1952 Related posts: Harlequin: Before the Romance Another Harlequin Valenti...

08 February 2016

A Sunny Metropolis for Misogynists

Dirty City Michael Young Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 If you cannot find the name of Dirty City on the map of the United States...

02 February 2016

Of War, Peace and Montreal's Writers' Chapel

It seems 2016 has barely begun and yet the year's first issue of Canadian Notes & Queries has already landed. The ninety-fourth...

01 February 2016

McGee's Lines on a Once Famous Festival Day

Verse written by son of Erin and Father of Confederation Thomas D'Arcy McGee in celebration of Saint Bridget of Kildare (a/k/a Sai...

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...

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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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