The Dusty Bookcase

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

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28 November 2016

Reading and Remembering Katherine Roy

The Gentle Fraud Katherine Roy Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1959 Katherine Roy was known as "Kitty" to her friends....

24 November 2016

Kenneth Orvis Cover Cavalcade (and a mystery)

What follows fails. It was intended as a visual feast of first edition covers for every book written by the mysterious Kenneth ...

21 November 2016

Kenneth Orvis: A Plea

Do you know this man? I've been slowly making my way through the complete works of Kenneth Orvis (a/k/a Kenneth Lemieux). Eight bo...

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!

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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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