by Leigh Anne Williams

The perils of writing about writers

For many readers, the value of an "authorized biography" is dubious. The suspicion is that the work will be a servile and selective record of the subject's life, minus even the bonus of close access ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Marchand returns to take on Clinton

By Leigh Anne Williams

Toronto Star columnist Philip Marchand has apparently finished his leave of absence. He returns to the paper in Thursday's edition to address what's certainly the hottest Toronto book story of the week -- former President ... Read More »

August 5, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Deconstructing the lobster

By Leigh Anne Williams

A postmodern novelist known for his linguistic contortions, a glossy foodie magazine, and the Maine Lobster festival. Sounds like the perfect recipe for a 6,000-word article. The article in question is by noted fiction writer ... Read More »

August 5, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The fruits of kindness

By Leigh Anne Williams

After charming Canadian readers and reviewers with her latest novel, A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews is starting to get some international attention. In Britain's The Guardian, Zoe Williams has turned in a long profile of ... Read More »

August 2, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Muggles only

By Leigh Anne Williams

Canadian Press had some fun with news of a Harry Potter convention held in Ottawa this past weekend. It seems it was a grownup-only affair – no one under 16 was to be admitted, and ... Read More »

August 2, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Someone's in the kitchen

By Leigh Anne Williams

If there's not already a PhD thesis on record somewhere about the bourgeois fetishization of gourmet food in contemporary Canadian fiction, there ought to be. It's long been a pet peeve of some of us ... Read More »

July 26, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Canada needs more of the world

By Leigh Anne Williams

Maisonneuve columnist Zach Wells has weighed in further on the absence of foreign voices on our domestic poetry lists. "In a previous column, I lamented Canada's piss-poor record of publishing foreign poetry written in English," ... Read More »

July 26, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Seth, Chester Brown hit the big time

By Leigh Anne Williams

Drawn & Quarterly has already issued a press release calling it "perhaps the most seminal piece of journalism ever devoted to graphic novels." It's a cover story in the most recent New York Times Magazine ... Read More »

July 12, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Will the new Heritage minister please stand up?

By Leigh Anne Williams

Watch for Liza Frulla or Sarmite (Sam) Bulte to take the Canadian Heritage portfolio when Paul Martin announces his new cabinet within the next couple of weeks. That's the prediction made in this Globe and ... Read More »

July 12, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

U.K. attention for posthumous Shields collection

By Leigh Anne Williams

The late Carol Shields' Collected Stories gets a review in U.K.'s Guardian. Author Hermione Lee observes that "the tendency to celebrate Shields as a benign, tender, mild observer of ordinary, minor lives has not made ... Read More »

July 4, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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Quill and Quire

The perils of writing about writers

Marchand returns to take on Clinton

Deconstructing the lobster

The fruits of kindness

Muggles only

Someone's in the kitchen

Canada needs more of the world

Seth, Chester Brown hit the big time

Will the new Heritage minister please stand up?

U.K. attention for posthumous Shields collection

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