The Dusty Bookcase

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

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23 August 2021

Double Fantasy

One Day's Courtship and The Heralds of Fame Robert Barr New York: Stokes, 1896 219 pages Novellas both, "One Day's Courtship&qu...

16 August 2021

The Brian Moore Centenary Festival (and Me)

This coming Thursday, August 19th, marks the start of Lonely Passions: The Brian Moore Centenary Festival . A seven-day celebration organiz...

09 August 2021

Dustiest Bookcase: R is for Richardson

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Desired Haven Evelyn M. Richardson Toronto: ...

02 August 2021

Shorter Moore

Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories Brian Moore [Belfast]: Turnpike, 2020 102 pages Brian Moore was first and foremost a novelist. He rece...

22 July 2021

Dustiest Bookcase: Q is for Quarrington

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Service Paul Quarrington Toronto: Coach ...

13 July 2021

Fumbling Towards Legacy

Legacy of Fear Garnett Weston New York: W S Mill/William Morrow, 1950 245 pages The jacket illustration suggests a gothic romance, but Lega...

02 July 2021

Have Bomb – Will Travel

This Suitcase is Going to Explode Tom Ardies Calabasas, CA: Brash Books, 2021 220 pages Of all the books I've read in 2021, This Suitcas...

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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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