Jack Stoddart announced yesterday that he intends to retire from the book business once the restructuring of General Publishing is complete.Stoddart, 58, made the announcement yesterday morning at a press conference in the downtown Toronto ... Read More »

Some Canadian authors will gain American exposure with a group appearance at a New York City Barnes & Noble next month.On June 7, David Bergen, Elizabeth Hay, Timothy Taylor, and Madeleine Thien will read at ... Read More »

A deal with Tailor-Made Films in the U.K. could bring new financial independence to Toronto novelist Robert Hough.Tailor-Made has optioned Hough’s 2001 debut, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (Random House Canada), and has planned ... Read More »

The nationally syndicated television show Fine Print is extending its brand with a glossy consumer magazine that will debut in July.Carolyn Weaver, host and executive producer of the three-year-old book-club talk show, will also serve ... Read More »

The fate of General Publishing will be decided by an Ontario judge, whose ruling – expected today – will determine whether the company can continue operating or will be forced into bankruptcy.Justice Jack Ground is ... Read More »

Life of Pi, Yann Martel’s Governor General’s Award-nominated novel, was published in the U.K. this month by Canongate, and will be published in the U.S. in June by Harcourt Brace. But Martel’s international readers will ... Read More »

More archival Canadian poetry has gone digital. This week the University of New Brunswick’s Electronic Text Centre launched The Canadian Poetry Database, which contains the work of 185 poets from the 18th to early 20th ... Read More »

The publisher and the home city of the late CanLit icon Matt Cohen will both honour his legacy next week. Next Thursday Toronto will officially rename a downtown park after the author, and on the ... Read More »

While General Publishing struggles to stay afloat over the next week, one perennial lifebuoy has been withdrawn, at least temporarily. The Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council are both withholding their grants ... Read More »