The Dusty Bookcase

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

▼

27 May 2019

Gone Fishin' (without Frank and Joe Hardy)

The Phantom Freighter Franklin W. Dixon [pseud. Amy McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1958] 216 pages I think I read a...

13 May 2019

Grant Allen's Breezy Read

An Army Doctor's Romance Grant Allen London: Raphall Tuck & Sons, [1893] 113 pages The publisher lowers expectations with ...

06 May 2019

A Brief Review of a Book Bought in Error

Exit Barney McGee Claire Mackay Richmond Hill, ON: Scholastic-TAB, 1979 146 pages We've all been there. It's the dying minu...

22 April 2019

Millar's Experiment in Springtime in Springtime

Experiment in Springtime Collected Millar: Dawn of Domestic Suspense Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2017 Margaret Millar...

21 April 2019

'The Easter Winds' by Lilian Leveridge

Easter verse written in the midst of the Great War by Anglican Lilian Leveridge from her debut collection Over the Hills of Home and Oth...

17 April 2019

Canadian Notes & Queries in Springtime

Behold, Canadian Notes & Queries #104 has arrived! Here it is on the hood of our aging Jeep Liberty. I look forward to each and...

08 April 2019

The Mystery Anthology Mystery Solved?

Canadian Mystery Stories Alberto Manguel, editor Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991 288 pages My review of this, the eleven...

View web version

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.

View my complete profile

Powered by Blogger.