The Dusty Bookcase

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

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18 July 2019

Reviving a Searching Novel about Drug Addiction

Kenneth Orvis' The Damned and the Destroyed arrives in bookstores this week. The fourteenth in Ricochet Books' series of ...

02 July 2019

Getting to Know the Woman Who Did

The Woman Who Did Grant Allen Boston: Roberts Bros, 1895 223 pages The Woman Who Did was the first Grant Allen novel I ever bought...

01 July 2019

'God Guide Thee Canada'

On the one hundred and fifty-second anniversary of the Dominion, "God Guide Thee Canada" from Harold S. Wood's Your Home...

25 June 2019

Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Tiresome Love

The Side of the Angels Basil King London: Methuen, 1917 316 pages Thorley Masterman is another of Basil King's good young men. ...

24 June 2019

"Hommage" pour la Fête

Verse for la Fête by nineteenth-century hipster Paul de Malijay from his Saint Jean-Baptiste: L'évangile et le Canada . A "So...

12 June 2019

The True Crime Book That Spawned an Industry

The Black Donnellys Thomas P. Kelley Toronto: Harlequin, 1962 158 pages Oh you who hail from Ontario Know the tale of the Donnellys...

08 June 2019

New Bookcases (not yet dusty)

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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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