The Prince Edward Island library system is participating in a three-month pilot program giving young readers access to some 200 books over the Internet. By logging on to ebookbuddies.com and using Adobe Reader, PEI children ... Read More »

It all started with an e-mail. I opened up my inbox one afternoon and found a message from a producer at CBS’s 60 Minutes. They were interested in doing a segment about bullshit. Could I60-minutes/> ... Read More »

“Microscope,” a new recurring department by writer and bookseller Shaun Smith, will zero in on some of the smallest of Canada’s small presses.Interviewing the author of The Complete Life of Harmon du Prés, one of ... Read More »

This September, the Calgary micropress Brindle & Glass will embark on the most ambitious project in its history when it resurrects – and reworks – a 25-year-old fiction series by Vancouver author Keith Maillard.The hefty ... Read More »

For the past five years or so, Anna Porter has been researching and writing a non-fiction book about Rezso Kasztner, a man who saved the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust and ... Read More »

This past April, Mark Macdonald, a buyer for Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium in Vancouver, put in a routine reorder for Don Hannah’s The Wise and Foolish Virgins. Although the novel had never been ... Read More »

Sheila Fischman has been translating literature for more than a quarter of a century – but the job doesn’t get any easier with experience. As she ushers me into her beautiful Plateau neighbourhood home in ... Read More »

I got a lovely gift the other day, courtesy of Oxford University Press Canada: copies of its brand-new paperback Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current Usage and the doorstopper-sized second edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. ... Read More »

“Is the doctor there?” “No,” I said. “He’s on holiday.” “Can I leave a message for him?” “Are you ill?” “No,” he said. “Tell him that David White rang. David White of Somerset. He has had my manuscript for ... Read More »

Sheila Gregoire’s book stands out from the other titles on the display table like high heels at a road race. Nestled alongside titles like Chain of Miracles and Exploring God’s Route 66, Gregoire’s Honey I ... Read More »