In an interview once with Noah Cowan, former co-director of the Toronto International Film Festival, I argued that Canadian cinema might improve if it didn’t continue to rely on CanLit. My rationale was that adaptations ... Read More »

You might think that a writer who has had a bestseller would be tempted to finish his next project as quickly as possible to capitalize on his success, but experimental poet Christian Bök is in ... Read More »

According to a recent Canadian Heritage survey, approximately one out of every two Canadians are unable to name a single author from their own country. The situation only gets worse when it comes to readers ... Read More »

A new book that views the different regions and cultures of the Northwest Territories through the eyes of an Aklavik boy has been a top seller at the most northerly full-service bookstore in Canada, the ... Read More »

If sports analogies have a place in the literary world, this month’s publication of June Hutton’s debut novel, Underground, represents a hat trick of sorts. Hutton is the third member of an informal Vancouver writing ... Read More »

Like almost every author across the country, novelist Susan Swan has until Sept. 4, 2009, to decide if she wants to get into bed with Google. After that date, she and just about anyone else ... Read More »

With only one day remaining to opt out of the Google Book Search settlement, a coalition of Canadian authors has launched a last-minute e-mail blitz voicing its opposition, claiming that there simply hasn’t been enough ... Read More »

Hoping to make inroads into the French-Canadian e-book market, Sony has partnered with the Quebec-based book chain Archambault to launch a new online store for francophone titles, Jelis.ca. Jelis is the first North American-run French-language ... Read More »

John Wiley & Sons Canada has teamed up with Chatelaine to launch an ongoing series of books targeted at the magazine’s female readership. The first title in the series will be Earn, Spend, Save: Chatelaine’s ... Read More »