The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 November 2017

RIP NCL: A Multinational Reacts to a Eulogy

It has been a month since the publication of "For All Its Faults," my essay on the death of the New Canadian Library ( CNQ 10...

27 November 2017

Winning with the Erotic W.E.D. Ross

Congratulations go to Eric Wilkinson, winner of last week's contest for a copy of The Dusty Bookcase . Eric's name was drawn f...

20 November 2017

Win a Copy of The Dusty Bookcase!

Part of this past weekend was spent writing a new Dusty Bookcase column for the next issue of Canadian Notes & Queries . This time ...

13 November 2017

Twenty-three Centuries of Freaky Fridays

Grandma's Little Darling Stephen R. George New York: Zebra, 1990 320 pages Horror hasn't much figured here, yet the genre d...

11 November 2017

A Poet Remembers Fallen Great War Poets: McCrae, Langstaff, Trotter, Seeger and Kilmer

John Douglas Logan 1869 - 1929 RIP On Remembrance Day, verse from one who survived in memory of those who did not. The New Apoc...

07 November 2017

The Dusty Bookcase in Publishers Weekly

Reviewed in this week in Publishers Weekly , a book for readers "who would like to acquaint themselves with Canadian literature ou...

01 November 2017

Michael Milner is No Margaret Millar

Nor is Louis Lorraine. Accept no substitutes. Related post: An 'Other Novel' by Margaret Millar

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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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