Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Snapshot: Don Bassingthwaite

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Don Bassingthwaite has spent most of his professional career associated with the University of Toronto in some way. While a student in the master of museum studies program there, he worked part-time at the U ... Read More »

November 11, 2003

In the Works

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JE ME SOUVIENS: Canadian rights to a first novel by New York-based, B.C.-born writer D.Y. Bechard have gone to Doubleday Canada. Vandal Love, an epic about the French-Canadian diaspora in the U.S., will publish in ... Read More »

November 11, 2003

Fred Stenson’s true west

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Three years ago, when Calgary writer Fred Stenson made the Giller Prize shortlist for his novel The Trade, it was as something of a dark horse candidate. “The resounding cry … was, ‘Who the hell ... Read More »

November 11, 2003

Changes

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PEOPLE THE BUKOWSKI AGENCY: Stuart Laidlaw has been promoted to office manager, replacing Amy Hick. He has been with the agency since last year and was previously an intern at Stoddart Publishing. Agent Jackie Joiner ... Read More »

November 11, 2003

Changes

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PEOPLE THE BUKOWSKI AGENCY: Stuart Laidlaw has been promoted to office manager, replacing Amy Hick. He has been with the agency since last year and was previously an intern at Stoddart Publishing. Agent Jackie Joiner ... Read More »

November 11, 2003

Priceless books

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One of those interesting ideas with the potential to radically change the book business was floated recently by Philip Downer, the managing director of Borders U.K., who argued at an industry conference that the convention ... Read More »

November 11, 2003

Caution: falling standards

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The pursuit of excellence seems so yesterday. In its place, we have the pursuit of immediacy. Success is often measured as the time it takes to get to market. Reality TV and its print equivalents ... Read More »

November 11, 2003

The future of research

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A four-year-old, $50-million initiative to provide researchers at Canadian universities with electronic access to the world’s most important scientific and medical journals has drawn mostly positive reviews as it seeks to expand its coverage to ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Going electronic: one journal’s decision

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Wallace Clement and his colleagues behind Studies in Political Economy, a 24-year-old political science journal based at Carleton University, are facing some tough decisions. They, like other independent scholarly journal publishers across the country, are ... Read More »

November 11, 2003