The Dusty Bookcase

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

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23 December 2013

Christmas Comes Early

My newest acquisition: Maria Monk's Daughter: An Autobiography Mrs. L. St. John Eckel New York: Published for the Author b...

21 December 2013

X is for Xmas Spex (Why Not?)

It's true, every family does buy a present for the Old Folks. Hell, in good times mine'll buy two or three. No one likes to se...

19 December 2013

Cousin Basil's Dickensian Christmas Gift

The Happy Isles Basil King New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923 I nearly let the year pass without reading any Basil King, and star...

16 December 2013

A Last-Minute Slogan, "Give Books"

Coaching courtesy of an old Eaton's ad published in the 23 December 1933 Globe & Mail . The venerable department store recomme...

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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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