Rock Recipes started the way so many blogs do: a lot of spare time and a small, devoted following. Newfoundlander Barry Parsons broke his ankle in the autumn of 2007 and was wheelchair-bound for months. ... Read More »
March 21, 2014
The Writers’ Union of Canada has come a long way in a little over four decades. Originally conceived of in the early 1970s to be the voice of professional Canadian authors, it has grown from ... Read More »
March 21, 2014
Adam Sternbergh, the Canadian-born culture editor for The New York Times Magazine, is accustomed to soothing delicate writerly egos and polishing raw prose. The tables turned when he set about writing his first novel, the ... Read More »
March 21, 2014
Arising out of her popular essay “The Boy Next Door,” which appeared in the December issue of The Walrus, Stacey May Fowles’s forthcoming memoir, about growing up under the shadow of the Scarborough Rapist and ... Read More »
March 21, 2014
Is there room for a new book fair in Toronto? It looks like we will find out this fall, when the recently announced Inspire! Toronto International Book Fair will take place from Nov. 13 to ... Read More »
March 21, 2014 | Filed under: Book news
The long poem Traverse, written mostly in a one-day marathon, presented an opportunity to reflect on more than 30 years as a practising poet, writes George Elliott Clarke Traverse is a happy accident. I wrote ... Read More »
The publishing sector’s latest efforts to enter a dialogue with the education sector about issues regarding “fair dealing” copyright legislation have been rebuffed. The Canadian Copyright Institute, an arms-length non-profit focused on copyright reform, sent ... Read More »
March 20, 2014
Effective April 1, Georgetown Publications will be the exclusive Canadian distributor of For ... Read More »
March 20, 2014
Ninety per cent of Canadian publishers have embraced digital publishing programs, according to a benchmark study released by BookNet Canada on March 17. While “The State of Digital Publishing in Canada 2013” confirms that digital ... Read More »
March 19, 2014
Doubleday Canada publishing director Lynn Henry has acquired Canadian English-language rights to two books by Pasha Malla: a story collection called 100 Knives in the Air and an untitled novel about a young man’s pilgrimage ... Read More »
March 18, 2014
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