by Attila Berki

Canada’s book community shares favourite titles of 2024

The Q&Q team reached out to reviewers, booksellers, and people in the publishing industry across the country to find out which titles from 2024 they’re still thinking about as the year draws to a close. Jo ... Read More »

December 11, 2024

Independent booksellers’ top-selling Canadian titles of 2024

By Attila Berki

It is not easy for frontlist titles published by Canadian-owned publishers to break through to the bestseller lists. The top-selling Canadian authors at indie bookstores have remained surprisingly consistent over the course of 2024 – ... Read More »

December 11, 2024

Vancouver Sun to cut book reviews, Broken Pencil closes, Atlantic Books Today marks milestone

By Attila Berki

The Vancouver Sun will be axing book reviews from its entertainment section in 2025. News of the change was communicated recently to reviewers for the daily newspaper, one of two in Vancouver owned by Postmedia. This decision ... Read More »

December 4, 2024

Agency and distribution change: Hopkins Press

By Attila Berki

University of Toronto Press will now represent Hopkins Press course materials, including textbooks, digital content, and other resources for university- and college-level teaching and learning, in both Canada and the U.S. This partnership is an expansion ... Read More »

December 4, 2024

Excerpt from Story Is a State of Mind: Writing and the Art of Creative Curiosity

By Attila Berki

As a writer, your mental focus—your capacity for attention—is one of your greatest resources. The human capacity for attention is limited. On any given day, there are more demands on your attention than you can ... Read More »

December 4, 2024

Kate Beaton wins Jan Michalski Prize for Literature

By Attila Berki

Kate Beaton's bestselling Canada Reads–winning 2022 graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands continues to rack up awards and international acclaim: the book was announced as the winner of the 2024 Jan ... Read More »

November 27, 2024

Excerpt from Question Authority: A Polemic About Trust in Five Meditations

By Attila Berki

Third Meditation: No, They Don’t Know Either The political theorist Jonathan Haidt, for example, well known for his criticism of elite education’s biases toward a hyperintelligent foolishness, has argued that the past decade of American ... Read More »

November 27, 2024

Personnel changes: Dundurn Press

By Attila Berki

Mylène Bouilly has joined Dundurn Press as rights and sales coordinator. Previously managing editor at Invisible Publishing, Bouilly will spearhead the rights strategy for the press in collaboration with publisher Meghan Macdonald, including international rights, ... Read More »

November 20, 2024

Excerpt from Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry

By Attila Berki

I rarely admit to writing poetry when talking to people I’ve just met. Asked what I do for a living during a night out with my wife, I sometimes default to ‘freelance writer,’ or more ... Read More »

November 13, 2024

Winners of the 2024 Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards announced

By Attila Berki

The Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards, which honour the best of English-language literature in Quebec, were announced at a live event on Nov. 12 Along with the winners in eight categories, for which shortlists were ... Read More »

November 13, 2024

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Canada’s book community shares favourite titles of 2024

Independent booksellers’ top-selling Canadian titles of 2024

Vancouver Sun to cut book reviews, Broken Pencil closes, Atlantic Books Today marks milestone

Agency and distribution change: Hopkins Press

Excerpt from Story Is a State of Mind: Writing and the Art of Creative Curiosity

Kate Beaton wins Jan Michalski Prize for Literature

Excerpt from Question Authority: A Polemic About Trust in Five Meditations

Personnel changes: Dundurn Press

Excerpt from Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry

Winners of the 2024 Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards announced

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