Grant Kennedy, a fixture of the Alberta publishing community, died on Oct. 14 at the age of 79. Kennedy and his son, Shane Kennedy, founded the Edmonton press Lone Pine Publishing in 1980. Lone Pine's ... Read More »
November 3, 2014
Greystone Books publisher Rob Sanders has acquired world French- and English-language rights to On the Edge: The State and Fate of the World’s Tropical Rainforests by former WWF International director Claude Martin with eight international rainforest ... Read More »
November 3, 2014
Next week in St. Catharines, Ontario, more than 85 artists and writers will convene at Avant Canada, the first conference on avant-garde writing in this country. The event, which runs Nov. 5–7, will feature writing in different ... Read More »
October 31, 2014
National Post’s Jonathan Kay to succeed The Walrus's outgoing editor-in-chief John Macfarlane Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Galway Kinnell is dead at 87 Criterion Collection to release a hard-cover art book The Puritan Magazine interviews Little Brother’s Charles Yao ... Read More »
October 30, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
Knopf Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has acquired English- and French-language North American rights to two books by former Globe and Mail editor-in-chief John Stackhouse. Off the Record, exploring the challenges of creating journalism that is sustainable in the ... Read More »
October 30, 2014
Knopf Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has acquired English- and French-language North American rights to two books by former Globe and Mail editor-in-chief John Stackhouse. Off the Record, exploring the challenges of creating journalism ... Read More »
October 29, 2014
Andrew Wylie has much to say about the book business, but it's not for the faint of heart. In his keynote address at the International Festival of Authors (and in the Q&A with CBC's Carol Off ... Read More »
October 28, 2014 | Filed under: Book news
Rick Mercer will host the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala on Nov. 10 Toronto Public Library's e-writer in residence Emily Pohl-Weary talks to teens in a new video series The Common Core curriculum and the dearth of history ... Read More »
October 28, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
The Sumeru Press publisher John Negru has acquired Canadian rights to two books by Richard Bryan McDaniel. The Third Step East: Zen Masters of America will appear in January 2015. Cypress Trees in the Garden: ... Read More »
October 27, 2014
DK Canada has hired Morgen Young to the newly created position of mass-market sales manager. Previously, Young worked ... Read More »
October 27, 2014
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