The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 May 2016

AC/DC Nurse: Another Harlequin Threesome

Staff Nurses in Love Hilda Pressley Toronto: Harlequin, 1962 Nurse's Dilemma Hilda Pressley Toronto: Harlequin, 1965 Make...

24 May 2016

Worst. Dialogue. Ever.

Over the past week, more than a couple of readers – three, in fact – have admired my ability to get through He Will Return , Helen Dick...

23 May 2016

Verse for Victoria Day from the Second World War

Waiting's Wedding and Other Poems Amy Redpath Roddick Montreal: John Dougall & Sons, 1941 The Gazette , 26 May 1941 Re...

16 May 2016

But Why Would You Want Him To?: The Very Strange Story of a Delusional Abandoned Wife

He Will Return Helen Dickson Reynolds Toronto: Ryerson, 1959 Newly-minted art school graduate Constance Manning faces the challenge ...

09 May 2016

A Wild Olive of Nitrate

A short follow-up to last week's post on The Wild Olive by Basil King : Sold at auction four years ago by eMoviePoster.com (note...

08 May 2016

A Poem for Mother's Day from the Great War

Century-old verse by Miss Elspeth Honeyman, whose brothers served in the 29th Battalion (Vancouver). From Canadian Poems of the Great Wa...

02 May 2016

The Barefoot Fugitive and Other Mysteries

The Wild Olive [Basil King] New York: Harper, 1910 Basil King wrote the bestselling novel of 1909. Who knew? Hardly anyone. Th...

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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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