Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Deals: July 3, 2008

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Thomas Allen Publishers publisher Patrick Crean has signed a deal with author Roy MacSkimming for a de facto follow-up to his recent Macdonald, which was a fictional look at Canada’s first prime minister. The new ... Read More »

July 2, 2008

Bruce Walsh leaves LongPen

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After two years at LongPen, vice-president of marketing Bruce Walsh is leaving the company. Walsh says the recent economic downturn in the American retail sector prompted his decision to resign. The Borders chain, which recently ... Read More »

June 26, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Prose of the world

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The monolingual writer is a postmodern, Anglo-American invention. In ages prior to ours, when most writers, by definition, were multilingual, it was so obvious that literature’s lustre was burnished by the fretting together of different ... Read More »

June 25, 2008

Stuck at the border

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When was the last time you read a Canadian translation of Dante’s Inferno? This is the sort of question that eats at Beatriz Hausner, because the answer, of course, is never. “The moment you translate ... Read More »

June 25, 2008

Unconventional publishing

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The vast pool of would-be authors who can’t land publishing deals has always been a fact of life. But the past decade has seen the rise of firms catering to this sector, from Lulu.com in ... Read More »

June 25, 2008

Solid waste happens

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Here’s a little thought experiment. Imagine you’re hanging a picture. You have a hammer in one hand. In the other, a nail. You swing the hammer and miss, the hammer landing on your thumb. What ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book links