The Dusty Bookcase

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

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14 February 2017

This Year's Climacteric Harlequin Valentine

Heath, Sex and Birth Control Percy E. Ryberg, M.D. Toronto: Harlequin, 1952 Related posts: Harlequin: Before the Romance Anothe...

13 February 2017

So... not a bodice ripper

Unlacing Lady Thea Louise Allen Toronto: Harlequin, 2014

10 February 2017

The Beautiful, Very Desirable Stephen Leacock (and the bloody severed head of Orpheus)

A few words as following Monday's post on Stephen Leacock's Behind the Beyond. Behind the Beyond was dropped by New Canadian ...

08 February 2017

Ezra Levant's Great White Hope

Available as of this morning, my Walrus review of Ezra Levant's spanking new ebook Trumping Trudeau: How Donald Trump Will Change ...

06 February 2017

Professor Leacock Sets the Stage

Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge Stephen Leacock Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1913 Early Leacock ...

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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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