As a writer who makes a living through literary journalism, I meet and interview a lot of other writers. We are, on the whole, a hard-to-please bunch. I have yet to find an author fully ... Read More »
October 29, 2003
The fun and frustration of Ontario’s ambitious new elementary science curriculum is easy to see at Westminster Public School in Thornhill, Ontario.Outside their science lab, the Grade 7 students crowd around to see whose homemade ... Read More »
October 29, 2003
There are words that are sometimes used not for their real meaning, but for their power to impart a certain tone to a sentence. Comprise, for example, conjures up a benign, lawyerly authority, and seems ... Read More »
October 29, 2003
April 24th 7:15 p.m.: Nipped into a seat at the austere Glenn Gould Studio for the Friday night launch of Rick Mercer’s Streeters: Rants and Raves from This Hour Has 22 Minutes. The CBC’s Peter ... Read More »
October 29, 2003 | Filed under: Bookselling
Different terrain, indeedWe were pleased to see the notice about Shyam Selvadurai’ s masterful new novel, The Cinnamon Gardens, in your In the Works section (Apr. 1998). However, a correction of fact needs to be ... Read More »
October 29, 2003
By early February Bertelsmann had already begun merging Random House with BDD internationally. In the U.K., Transworld and Random House will continue to act separately, but in other territories they are being merged under the ... Read More »
October 28, 2003
• A new paperback edition of Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks will be published to coincide with the mid-February release of the big-screen adaptation, starring Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, and Paul Newman. H.B. ... Read More »
October 28, 2003
While there is no one-stop sports book specialty wholesaler in Canada or the United States, you can get a good selection of specialized fitness titles from the following three suppliers:Human Kinetics offers a diverse list ... Read More »
October 28, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
Never mind the pacingAfter reading “Book TV: How the literary shows rate” (Dec. 1998) and “Book TV to launch this year” (Jan. 1999), I would suggest that people involved with these new shows obtain a ... Read More »
October 28, 2003
Shortly after the Random House-Doubleday merger was approved, Quill & Quire informally polled a sampling of independent booksellers about the strengths and weaknesses of the two companies, and about how the merger may affect retailers:Selection: ... Read More »
October 28, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
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