Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Books and the sex shop

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Leather harnesses on the left, silicone lube and dildos on the right, and, right up front, a great books section. Where the seedy sex shops of yore have always had magazines and well-handled volumes of ... Read More »

September 11, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Margaret Gibson: 1948-2006

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Writer Margaret Gibson died of breast cancer on Feb. 25 in Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital at the age of 57. The author of several books of fiction, Gibson had suffered from mental illness for much ... Read More »

September 11, 2006

The eyes have it

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I have never known eyes like the eyes of Margaret Gibson.Big, and made bigger because she lined them in black.Unflinching, like a fowl’s, but not cold. Shrewd, as a bird’s are shrewd, because it depends ... Read More »

September 11, 2006

Canada’s guru

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The gleaming office parks and cookie-cutter housing tracts of Toronto’s northern suburbs may seem like a strange place to find a guru, but Robin Sharma has never liked that label anyway. “I’m a very ordinary ... Read More »

September 11, 2006

Settling down

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It may seem like only yesterday, but this June marks the fifth anniversary of the merger of Chapters and Indigo. More significantly, it also marks the expiration of the consent order that Indigo CEO Heather ... Read More »

September 11, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Toronto Book Awards

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The Toronto Book Awards for 2006 were presented on Wednesday, Sept. 6. at the City of Toronto Archives, with Dionne Brand taking the grand prize for her novel What We All Long For. (Photos by ... Read More »

September 11, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Snapshot: Steve Osgoode

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While he hasn’t yet fulfilled his goal of editing comic books, Steve Osgoode is very happy with his job as HarperCollins Canada’s director of online marketing and new media. He began his publishing career as ... Read More »

September 11, 2006

Finer Points: Name that decade

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Driving along Highway 401 recently, somewhere between Toronto and Montreal, we tuned in a local radio station. I can’t really define its format, but it advertised itself as playing “music of the eighties, nineties, and ... Read More »

September 11, 2006