The Dusty Bookcase

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

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13 September 2011

A Blockhead Tries Writing for Money

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The Mayor of Côte St. Paul Ronald J. Cooke Toronto: Harlequin, 1950 "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money...
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09 September 2011

Of American Pirates and Canadian Counterfeiters

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I received an email recently from a publisher who took exception to a post on pirated John Glassco titles at my other blog . "Hey ther...
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07 September 2011

A Son's Lies My Father Told Me

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Lies My Father Told Me Norman Allan Toronto: Signet, 1975 Back in May , I described novelizations of Canadian films as the rarest of things;...
02 September 2011

Post-Apocalypse in Pink

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The Lord's Pink Ocean David Walker New York: Daw, 1973 160 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in...
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01 September 2011

A Final Word on Manners

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The Ottawa Citizen 14 November 1953 Look familiar? What we have here is the Mind Your Manners publicity sheet from Monday's post repro...
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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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