Author Michael Winter, getting stuck while describing Jack Award winner Richard Bachmann's A Different Drummer bookstore: "Is there still a cat?" Richard Bachmann, on receiving the award, a hefty, metal jack: "Where's the ball?" On ... Read More »
A small family reunion would make the second floor of Toronto's Czehoski restaurant on Queen Street West feel a little cramped. With dozens of bookselling and publishing industry friends and well-wishers present to see A ... Read More »
June 8, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Events, Industry news
Some of the traits of "the 21st century book," as projected by Wikinomics co-author Anthony Williams in his Devices & Desires presentation. Digital and accessible via many devices. Searchable by words, images, sounds, etc. Multimedia ... Read More »
June 8, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Environics senior researcher Amy Langstaff pre-polled a sample of conference attendees and presented some of her findings ... Read More »
June 8, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
"When I Googled the title [of the conference], I found another book whose title was Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America." – Keynote speaker Alexander Manu "Michael was pleased when he found ... Read More »
June 8, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
There was a new award handed out at the 24th annual Arthur Ellis Awards ceremony in Toronto last night, and you couldn't have asked for a more appreciative recipient than author Phyllis Smallman. The award, ... Read More »
June 8, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
There was a new award handed out at the 24th annual Arthur Ellis Awards ceremony in Toronto last night, and you couldn't have asked for a more appreciative recipient than author Phyllis Smallman. The award, ... Read More »
June 8, 2007
The Association of Canadian Publishers held their annual banquet last night at La Maquette restaurant in Toronto. ... Read More »
June 8, 2007 | Filed under: Events
Harbourfront's Geoffrey Taylor, on whether he was nervous before the first-ever BOOKED event: "There's a lot of good bars around here; I don't know if you've noticed." Ray Robertson, on reading from a novel that ... Read More »
June 8, 2007 | Filed under: Authors
There were nervous smiles and possibly some fluttery stomachs in and around the Enwave Theatre for last night's "Men of Letters" reading, the first event of the first-ever BOOKED festival. The featured authors were Ray ... Read More »
June 8, 2007 | Filed under: Events
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