The Dusty Bookcase

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

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21 November 2013

A 49-Year-Old Fifty Shades? S&M from M&S?

A Stranger and Afraid Marika Robert Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964 320 pages This review now appears, revised and ...

18 November 2013

T is for Thievery

Pettes Memorial Library, Knowlton, Quebec Hugely flattered to hear you stole my book. This is fame. I used to steal a lot of boo...

12 November 2013

S is for Short Story

The Crooked Golfers Frank L. Packard I know of 182 short stories by Frank L. Packard, but there could be twice that number. Here o...

11 November 2013

Remembrance Day

Canon Frederick George Scott Montreal, 7 April 1861 - Quebec, 19 January 1944

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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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