The Dusty Bookcase

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

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27 February 2023

Go West, Young Woman

The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d] 251 pages In the summer of 1985, I bought a copy of The Oxford Compan...

15 February 2023

The Girl Off the Train

One Way Street Dan Keller [Louis Kaufman] London: Hale, 1960 190 pages Toronto boy Paul Saber has had a rough ten years. The earliest were s...

14 February 2023

A Ruthless Harlequin Valentine

Never Trust a Woman [ In a Vain Shadow ] Raymond Marshall [René Lodge Brabazon Raymond] Toronto: Harlequin, 1957 Apparently, a novel about ...

06 February 2023

A Woman Cheated

The Cannibal Heart Collected Millar: Dawn of Domestic Suspense Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2017 In Margaret Millar's bibliograp...

27 January 2023

Television Man is Crazy

The one hundred and twelfth issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrived in our rural mailbox yesterday afternoon. A beautiful thing, wrap...

16 January 2023

James De Mille's Antarctic Death Cult

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder [James De Mille] New York: Harper & Bros, 1888 306 pages Forty years ago this month, I s...

03 January 2023

A Forgotten Mystery; a Shattered Dream

The Twenty-First Burr Victor Lauriston Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922 292 pages Victor Lauriston was born William Edward Park on 16...

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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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