The Dusty Bookcase

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

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16 November 2016

Betting the House

Hickory House Kenneth Orvis [pseud. Kenneth Lemieux] Toronto: Harlequin, 1956 Bookie Alfredo Rossi can see the writing on the ...

14 November 2016

Arnold Viersen Has a Rhyme for Manure

Your lights are on, but you're not home. Your mind is not your own. The week Arnold Vier...

13 November 2016

The Most Daring New Novelist on the Scene Today!

12 November 2016

There Are No Rules for Leonard Cohen!

11 November 2016

A Man With No Face

For Remembrance Day, my latest piece for The Walrus . Related post: Alec Falcon, c'est moi Remembering Peregrine Acland A...

10 November 2016

04 November 2016

Testing Jimmie Dale's Patience (and mine)

Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue Frank L. Packard Toronto: Copp, Clark, 1922 This third Gray Seal book begins where the second, T...

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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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