by Leigh Anne Williams

Celebrating Katherine Mansfield

On the occasion of a new Penguin Classics edition of The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, novelist Ali Smith looks back at the life and career of the New Zealand-born fiction writer, who died in ... Read More »

April 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Suppressing Hanif Kureishi

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sensitivity or political squeamishness? BBC Radio has decided not to air a reading of a Hanif Kureishi short story . The story is in the running for the National Short Story prize, and the BBC ... Read More »

April 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

New event photos: Mallick, Sharp, and more

By Leigh Anne Williams

It had to be one of the swankiest Canadian book launches on record: Rosalie Wise Sharp's memoir Rifke was launched at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto on April 17, where Sharp's husband, Four Seasons ... Read More »

April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Freedom Day at the Q&Q home office

By Leigh Anne Williams

Our undying thanks to the Friends of Q&Q who managed to smuggle a small carton of the new Stephen Colbert ice cream all the way from Rochester, New York, to our downtown Toronto HQ. Ice ... Read More »

April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

David Sedaris and a million little chuckles

By Leigh Anne Williams

There's a minor scandal brewing for American funnyman David Sedaris. Last month in a New Republic piece, Alex Heard called out Sedaris on embellishments and fabrications in several of his non-fiction humour pieces. Most of ... Read More »

April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Vonnegut obit roundup

By Leigh Anne Williams

As you no doubt know by now, legendary author Kurt Vonnegut has died. The New York Times has a comprehensive obit, as does The L.A. Times, while Salon has a slightly quirkier homage – writer ... Read More »

April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Coming up in the May Q&Q

By Leigh Anne Williams

The May 2007 issue of Quill & Quire is on its way to stores and subscribers now. It features a Science Fiction Spotlight, which includes a cover profile of star SF novelist Robert J. Sawyer, ... Read More »

April 11, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Fun with press releases (Choose Your Own Adventure edition)

By Leigh Anne Williams

Word is that the much-loved – er, well, much-remembered – Choose Your Own Adventure books are about to relaunch with a new series (with Canadian Manda distributing in Canada). So it only makes sense that ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Wershler-Henry hits The New Yorker

By Leigh Anne Williams

The latest book by CanLit mainstay Darren Wershler-Henry, The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typing, is reviewed in the latest New Yorker. (The book was published by McClelland & Stewart here in Canada but ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Timing is everything (Canadian arts funding edition)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Writers' Union of Canada is organizing a rally in Ottawa later this month to protest the lack of federal arts funding. From the TWUC press release: In conjunction with other arts groups, The Writers’ ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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Celebrating Katherine Mansfield

Suppressing Hanif Kureishi

New event photos: Mallick, Sharp, and more

Freedom Day at the Q&Q home office

David Sedaris and a million little chuckles

Vonnegut obit roundup

Coming up in the May Q&Q

Fun with press releases (Choose Your Own Adventure edition)

Wershler-Henry hits The New Yorker

Timing is everything (Canadian arts funding edition)

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