The Dusty Bookcase

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

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12 December 2016

The Year's Best Books in Review – A.D. 2016; Featuring Three Titles Deserving Resurrection

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Still more than two weeks left in the year, but not too early for this list. Given my schedule these days, I know the book I'm readi...
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05 December 2016

The Season's Best Books in Review — A.D. 1916

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The Globe , 2 December 1916 The 2016 Globe 100 was published last week. As with any other, one could quibble with this year's lis...
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28 November 2016

Reading and Remembering Katherine Roy

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The Gentle Fraud Katherine Roy Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1959 Katherine Roy was known as "Kitty" to her friends....
24 November 2016

Kenneth Orvis Cover Cavalcade (and a mystery)

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What follows fails. It was intended as a visual feast of first edition covers for every book written by the  mysterious Kenneth ...
21 November 2016

Kenneth Orvis: A Plea

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Do you know this man? I've been slowly making my way through the complete works of Kenneth Orvis (a/k/a Kenneth Lemieux). Eight bo...
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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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