The Dusty Bookcase

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

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30 July 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: G is for Gotlieb

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...

23 July 2018

The Promise of a Man, a Mother in So Much Pain

Blencarrow Isabel Mackay Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1926 307 pages The author's final novel, published two years before her death, ...

16 July 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: F is for Fulford

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...

13 July 2018

Cheering Mrs Moodie's Misfortune

Related posts: Susanna Moodie's Bloomers Homophobes and Book Burners Weigh In The Return of the Amazon Customer Review Mu...

09 July 2018

Red Set: The History of Gang of Four is Launched!

I'm honoured to have been invited to interview author Jim Dooley at the Canadian launch of Red Set: A History of Gang of Four, pu...

05 July 2018

The Great Canadian Lesbian Pulp Novel?

Sadly, no; but I think my expectation was justified. See if you don't agree. Here's the beginning of my review, which was posted...

02 July 2018

Hugh MacLennan, My Favourite Martian

Each Man's Son Hugh MacLennan Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1962 Cover by Frank Newfeld Related posts: Pierre Berton a...

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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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