The Dusty Bookcase

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

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15 February 2021

The Dustiest Bookcase: L is for Lysenko (& Lesik)

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Westerly Wild Vera Lysenko [pseud Vera Lesik...

14 February 2021

A Harlequin Harlot Romance for Valentine's Day

The Pick-Up Raymond Marshall [pseud René Lodge Brabazon Raymond] Toronto: Harlequin, 1955 Related posts: Harlequin: Before the Romance Anoth...

01 February 2021

May Agnes Fleming's Wronged Wife (of many)

A Wronged Wife [ The Twin Sisters; Or, The Wronged Wife's Hate ] May Agnes Fleming New York: Carleton, [c. 1883] 420 pages A Wronge...

30 January 2021

Erring on The Terror of the Tar Sands

A 1968 children's book, one of the most obscure novels I've read since beginning the Dusty Bookcase, The Terror of the Tar Sands ca...

15 January 2021

The Dustiest Bookcase: K is for Keith

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Bells of St. Stephen's Marian Keith ...

01 January 2021

Gordon Pinsent's Gift

A Gift to Last Gordon Pinsent and Grahame Woods Toronto: Seal, 1978 215 pages Gordon Pinsent celebrated his ninetieth birthday last ...

26 December 2020

The Very Best Reads of a Plague Year

Not one week into 2020, I met a physician friend for dinner at Sidedoor in Ottawa's ByWard Market. Over too many drinks, he told me of ...

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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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