CBC Radio One has unveiled a game of literary Survivor to air next month that producers hope will encourage the entire country to read a single work of Canadian fiction. The show is modeled after ... Read More »
January 26, 2004
A flood last week at the National Library of Canada – the third in the past six months – has damaged hundreds of irreplaceable documents, and has reinforced among library staff the need to find ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
With the intense competition for media play these days, a good author photo can mean the difference between 100 and 1,000 words in the arts section of the local paper. Though savvy publicists have put ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
It should have been a straightforward assignment: confirm that Hartley GoodWeather, the pseudonymous author of the forthcoming mystery DreadfulWater Shows Up (HarperFlamingo Canada, April) is, in fact, Thomas King.No problem. The idea was already industry ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
It’s time once again for independent booksellers to assert themselves. We have a year – 18 months at the most – before Chapters/ Indigo pulls itself together and starts flexing its muscle. In the meantime, ... Read More »
January 22, 2004
A strange thing happened at Coach House Books this fall. One of the press’s frontlist titles, a book of experimental poetry by Toronto writer Christian Bök, was reprinted – three times. Coach House typically produces ... Read More »
Another recent effort to revive early Canadian literature has been stalled by a legal dispute. Last year Canadian Scholars’ Press launched the Brown Bear Press imprint to reissue out-of-print Canadian fiction. The line was scheduled ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
Few young readers today are familiar with the 1894 novel Beautiful Joe. But Margaret Marshall Saunders’ tale of a dog was a massive bestseller during the author’s lifetime – and made an early and lasting ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Book culture
It’s been joked that the usual progression for a young fiction author is to begin with a collection of short stories and then “graduate” to a novel. Similarly, most publishing paths begin with trade-paper originals ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
The novel opens with recruits returning from a brothel and culminates with face-to-face killing in the trenches of the First World War. No surprise, then, that Generals Die in Bed, written by Canadian war veteran ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Authors
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