With the great writers, horror lives somewhere behind the words, like a fire in the root system of a tree, writes Nick Cutter What scares people is individual to them. Sure, there are broad fears: ... Read More »
It would be safe to say 2014 was a good year for Julie Morstad. How To (Simply Read Books), the Vancouver artist’s 2013 authorial debut, won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and Julia, Child ... Read More »
March 4, 2015 | Filed under: Children's publishing, People
Organized by the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council, the annual Freedom to Read Week "encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter ... Read More »
February 24, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture
Jennifer Lum uses a variety of illustrated images to capture the humorously frazzled quality of the characters in Tessa McWatt’s novel Higher Ed (Random House Canada) 1. The author’s previous book, Vital Signs, was about ... Read More »
February 6, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture
Emily M. Keeler In just three years, 27-year-old Emily M. Keeler has gone from being a 50-book-challenge blogger to a sought-out, respected literary critic, editor, and journalist with one of the most coveted book media ... Read More »
February 5, 2015
Combining collage and found text allows new stories to emerge in ironic and interesting ways, writes Governor General's Literary Award winner Diane Schoemperlen Sometimes the gestation period for an idea takes place over a long time, ... Read More »
February 4, 2015 | Filed under: People
Being a playwright in Canada is like being an ice sculptor: you are a practitioner of an obscure art form that is ephemeral, impractical as a career choice, misunderstood, romantic. Canada’s theatre history is very ... Read More »
January 30, 2015 | Filed under: Opinion, People, Writing life
RECORDING HISTORY Judging from media reviews coming out of the U.K., expectations were low for John Lydon’s autobiography Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored (HarperCollins Canada), but it appears that the former Sex Pistol ... Read More »
January 29, 2015 | Filed under: Preview
D&Q AT 25 This year, the great Montreal publisher Drawn & Quarterly turns 25, and to celebrate, it has commissioned a retrospective anthology featuring some of the house’s most enduring work. Edited by D&Q creative ... Read More »
January 20, 2015 | Filed under: Preview
SETTING THE STAGE A misremembered anecdote concerning the writer Simone de Beauvoir served as the genesis for Jane Urquhart’s ninth novel. When de Beauvoir was in the process of leaving her American lover, Nelson Algren, ... Read More »
January 15, 2015 | Filed under: Preview
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