Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

The disappearing canon

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Robert Lecker knows that Lynn Crosbie’s novel Paul’s Case is a controversial book. He understands why, because it deals starkly and sometimes brutally with murderers Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, it caused such an outcry ... Read More »

June 24, 2013

The crisis in school libraries

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Last year, two of the five finalists in a national essay-writing competition were students from St. Andrew’s High School, in Victoria, B.C., and perhaps it’s no coincidence that their English teacher is also the school ... Read More »

June 24, 2013

Minorities in publishing

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After touring his class through some publishing houses last year, Don Sedgwick was confronted by a couple of “politically minded” publishing students who had noticed that most of the faces they’d encountered in the industry ... Read More »

June 24, 2013

Making ends meet

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You can make a living as a writer in Canada, but you’d better be prepared to sharpen your negotiating skills, or accept poverty wages with few benefits, according to the results of a survey of ... Read More »

June 24, 2013

Culture vs. commerce

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“The Government will assist the book publishing industry…make the transition to the new economy.” Speech from the Throne, February 2001, hinting at a $28-million budgetary windfall for the Book Publishing Industry Development Program This winter, ... Read More »

June 24, 2013 | Filed under: Book news

There’s no life like it

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When Ruth Wilson announced she would leave her position as managing editor at Self-Counsel Press in June 1997 to embark on a career as a freelancer, friends and colleagues urged her to reconsider. “People told ... Read More »

June 24, 2013

They must be giants

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Size really did matter in the 1990s. Never mind the talk that smaller meant nimbler, more more adaptable, or more customer-oriented. At decade’s end, it was the companies that thought big or got big, the ... Read More »

June 24, 2013

Best books of 2002

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Perhaps the biggest surprise in a stellar year for Canadian fiction was that the most celebrated novel was actually released in 2001. Yann Martel’s Life of Pi was virtually ignored by critics and prize juries ... Read More »

June 24, 2013 | Filed under: Book news