President Obama criticized for planned visit to Amazon warehouse CBC's search for the most ... Read More »
July 30, 2013 | Filed under: Book links
Before the disastrous trail derailment hit Lac-Mégantic earlier this month, the Quebec town was well on its way to building a new library. But before its scheduled move into the new building in September, the ... Read More »
July 29, 2013 | Filed under: Libraries
In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at fall's most anticipated Canadian non-fiction. Art, Music & Pop Culture Diagnosed with leukemia in 1969 while still in his thirties, artist Jack Chambers' final decade was marked ... Read More »
July 29, 2013 | Filed under: Preview
In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at fall's most anticipated Canadian non-fiction. Fiction Two years after his death, NDP leader Jack Layton continues to be the subject of movies and books. This fall, for ... Read More »
July 26, 2013 | Filed under: Preview
This Saturday, the Calgary Public Library Foundation and the City of Calgary are hosting a city-wide book drive to raise funds to replace thousands of books destroyed in last month's flood and the extensive damage ... Read More »
July 25, 2013 | Filed under: Libraries
The jury has been announced for the 2013 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-fiction, the richest annual literary award for non-fiction in Canada. This year's jury comprises Hal Niedzviecki, Candace Savage, and Andreas Schroeder. ... Read More »
July 22, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
As the Calgary Stampede wrapped up this weekend, residents and business owners were still dealing with the aftermath of damage and destruction caused by flooding late June. On June 26, Q&Q reported that Pages on Kensington ... Read More »
July 15, 2013 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling
Cynthia McMurray, owner of the Nova Scotia vanity press Bryler Publications and the recently founded Three Dogs Press, is embroiled in several legal disputes “ one of which could involve Indigo Books & Music. In ... Read More »
July 15, 2013 | Filed under: Book news
Vancouver-based Pandora's Collective has announced the winners of its annual awards, highlighting the achievements of writers, organizers, mentors, and other literati in Vancouver. Joy Kogawa won the Distinctive Body of Work Award. Kogawa is best ... Read More »
July 10, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
Canadian-Hungarian-Japanese writer Csilla Istok has won the 2013 Rainbow Caterpillar Multilingual Kid Lit Award last week for her Hungarian-language short story "When the Sun Dies." The prize is open to unpublished short stories by a ... Read More »
July 2, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
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