The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 January 2018

Margaret Millar Makes Something of Herself

The Invisible Worm Collected Millar: The First Detectives Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2017 We had a very Canadian eagernes...

28 January 2018

Remembering John McCrae: 100 Years

One hundred years ago today, John McCrae lost his life to pneumonia in the No. 14 General Hospital in Wimereux, France. The struggle...

24 January 2018

May Agnes Fleming's Very Worst Marriage?

The Heiress of Castle Cliffe; Or, Off With the Old Love [ Victoria; Or, The Heiress of Castle Cliffe ] May Agnes Fleming New Yor...

16 January 2018

Resuming Richard Rohmer: A Plea for Help

Four years ago this month, I set out to read every book ever written by Richard Rohmer. It wasn't my idea. My old pal Chris Kell...

13 January 2018

Amazon Customer: Sick-Minded Margaret Atwood is Supposed to Be a Writer of Women's Books

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08 January 2018

A Winter's Tale of a Dry Summer

'Nemesis Wins' Grant Allen Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual London: Haddon, 1894 I often start the New Year with so...

02 January 2018

10 Best Book Buys of 2017 (one of which was a gift)

Last year was meant to be one of great austerity. By rights, the 2017 edition of this annual list should be the weakest yet. There were ...

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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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