The Dusty Bookcase

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

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18 April 2016

Small-town Boy Makes Good, Founds Small Town

Jean Rivard Antoine Gérin-Lajoie [trans. Vida Bruce] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977 280 pages This review now app...

13 April 2016

'A Tribute to St. Mary's [sic], Ontario'

Dawn on the River Thames, St Marys, Ontario (detail) Anyès Kadowaki Busby 2016 This month marks the eighth anniversary of our move ...

12 April 2016

Tour de Force Reawakens!

Word comes from Canadian Notes & Queries headquarters that my column about Pierre Berton and Charles Templeton's Tour de Forc...

08 April 2016

The Busiest Man in England Lays Down His Pen

Hilda Wade: A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose Grant Allen [and Arthur Conan Doyle] New York: Putnam, 1900 383 pages This revie...

07 April 2016

A Poet's Angry Word With the Fenian Botherhood

Angry verse on this 148th anniversary of Thomas D'Arcy McGee's assassination found in Evan MacColl's Poems and Songs (Toron...

04 April 2016

Passing Go with Canadian Notes & Queries

Ce soir à Windsor , the launch of Canadian Notes & Queries #95. "The Games Issue", it features contributions by Tobias Ca...

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...

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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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