Q&Q contributor Sarah Weinman outlines her troubles with the whole notion of getting books signed in a blog entry on the Guardian site: The last vestiges of excitement about inscriptions disappeared when I became a ... Read More »
Non-sequitur graffiti has been the rage in Toronto for a while “ the Val Kilmer faces that showed up a couple of years ago being the most notable example “ but someone recently gave the ... Read More »
April 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Some book-related links: Did a Slate critic help save Nabokov's last novel from the flames? (Slate) Ontario senator helps save Joy Kogawa's childhood home (CBC.ca) Duddy Kravitz: The Musical was doomed from the start “ ... Read More »
April 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
From the Los Angeles Times: Despite all the hand-wringing by those who claim that literary culture is trapped in a downward spiral, overwhelmed by movies and video games and a 24/7 fixation on Britney Spears' ... Read More »
April 24, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
"One Book, One Vancouver" has picked Karen X. Tulchinsky's 2003 novel The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky (Raincoast Books) as this year's selection in the city-wide book club. More info here, at the One Book, ... Read More »
April 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Some book-related links: Bush Library to be base for literacy and education, says Laura Bush* (The Dallas Morning News) A library where you can borrow people instead of books (InfoSpeak.org) We've picked the right wine ... Read More »
April 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
The nominees for this year's BC Book Prizes were feted at a shindig held April 19 in Vancouver. The winners will be named at the prize gala on Saturday, April 26. (Photos courtesy of kc ... Read More »
Following the recent controversy over whether or not a Lonely Planet guidebook author faked some of the book's contents, Chris Taylor “ who has himself written a number of Lonely Planet guides “ weighs in ... Read More »
April 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Some book-related links: Romance writer Cassie Edwards breaks with publisher over plagiarism allegations (CBC.ca) Mark Abley on playoff English (The Gazette) U.K. library's centenary marked with beer (The Citizen) At home with poet Raymond Souster ... Read More »
April 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
On April 14, David Macfarlane launched T0ronto: A City Becoming (Key Porter Books) with the help of a panel of (municipally) talking heads. The event happened at The Gladstone Hotel in Toronto (where else?) as ... Read More »
April 18, 2008 | Filed under: Events
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