The Dusty Bookcase

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

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01 June 2016

Ruth Strong's 'The Campus - June 1916'

Miss Ruth Strong Torontonensis, 1918 Century-old verse by Ruth Strong of Hamilton, an undergraduate of the University of Toronto, f...

30 May 2016

AC/DC Nurse: Another Harlequin Threesome

Staff Nurses in Love Hilda Pressley Toronto: Harlequin, 1962 Nurse's Dilemma Hilda Pressley Toronto: Harlequin, 1965 Make...

24 May 2016

Worst. Dialogue. Ever.

Over the past week, more than a couple of readers – three, in fact – have admired my ability to get through He Will Return , Helen Dick...

23 May 2016

Verse for Victoria Day from the Second World War

Waiting's Wedding and Other Poems Amy Redpath Roddick Montreal: John Dougall & Sons, 1941 The Gazette , 26 May 1941 Re...

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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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