The Dusty Bookcase

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

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21 March 2017

An Award-Winning Novelist's Bowdlerized Debut

The Pillar of Fire Gordon Green Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 The Praying Mantis H. Gordon Green Fredericton: Brunswi...

20 March 2017

'Spring Waking' by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

SPRING WAKING A snowdrop lay in the sweet, dark ground. "Come out," said the Sun, &...

06 March 2017

An 'Other Novel' from Margaret Millar

Wives and Lovers Collected Millar: The Master at Her Zenith Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2016 The thirteenth of Margaret Mi...

27 February 2017

A Novel That Killed a Novelist?

In Quest of Splendour [Pierre le magnifique] Roger Lemelin [trans. Harry Lorin Binsse] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1955 Roger...

15 February 2017

A Small Town's Biggest Novelist

The newest issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrived last week, containing all sorts of goodness wrapped in a cover by Seth. My c...

14 February 2017

This Year's Climacteric Harlequin Valentine

Heath, Sex and Birth Control Percy E. Ryberg, M.D. Toronto: Harlequin, 1952 Related posts: Harlequin: Before the Romance Anothe...

13 February 2017

So... not a bodice ripper

Unlacing Lady Thea Louise Allen Toronto: Harlequin, 2014

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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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