A grammatical concept I was never introduced to in school is that of the non-count noun. The term was invented in 1952, as another name for what until then had been called a mass noun, ... Read More »
September 28, 2007
Everyone hates clichés. The trouble is, one writer’s hackneyed clunker is another’s pithy idiom, and a definition is hard to agree on. Burchfield’s Fowler has an entry on clichés and another on idioms, but some ... Read More »
September 28, 2007
Every Halloween, I remember with a pang that when I was a child we went shellouting, and now the word doesn’t exist, not even according to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. “Shell out, shell out, the ... Read More »
September 28, 2007
If strong fall sales were supposed to send a current of good cheer through the bookselling industry, little of it was in evidence at the annual Book Publishers’ Professional Association Cabaret. Few industry insiders were ... Read More »
September 28, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Although romance titles alone command a larger share of the book market in Canada than all the CanLit classics combined, genre writers still bear the stigma of the slightly trashy cousin who no one talks ... Read More »
September 28, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Break out the coffee, Nuit Blanche is back. Many Torontonians will forgo sleep this Saturday night to enjoy what presenters bill as "a free all-night contemporary art thing." Now in its second year, Nuit Blanche, ... Read More »
September 28, 2007
Three Canadian books – two of which are the work of the same designer – have been selected to be part of the juried American Institute of Graphic Arts’ 50 Books/50 Covers of 2007. The ... Read More »
September 27, 2007
The Book Expo Canada Task Force announced this week that the readers’ festival BOOKED!, created to accompany the 2007 BEC, will not be remounted in 2008. BOOKED was intended to help publishers make the most ... Read More »
September 27, 2007
Last year, when the Canada Council for the Arts withdrew $33,000 of funding to Berton House – the writers’ retreat located in Pierre Berton’s boyhood home in Dawson City, Yukon – there was concern in ... Read More »
September 27, 2007
Author and poet Christopher Dewdney is the winner of this year’s Harbourfront Festival Prize. The prize was created in 1984 to honour individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the world of books and ... Read More »
September 27, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
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