The Dusty Bookcase

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

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29 March 2016

Cocking in Bed

The House in Brook Street Ronald Cocking London: Hurst & Blackett [1949] Wives who wish their husbands to fall asleep at a reaso...

27 March 2016

'Easter Dawn' by Jean Blewett

Jean Blewett's Poems Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922 Related posts: 'The Easter Parade, 1915' by Robert Sta...

14 March 2016

Desperately Seeking Violet

Do Evil in Return Margaret Millar New York: Dell [1951] Two men are in love with Charlotte Keating. It's easy to see why. Beauti...

07 March 2016

The Paper Version (for Robert W. Chambers fans)

Every so often I'm asked about the difference between this blog and my Dusty Bookcase column in Canadian Notes & Queries . The a...

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...

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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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