Back in the late 1960s, Louis Dudek argued that what Canada needed was a few good literary critics. Apparently no one was listening.In fact, over the past 30 years, the level of literary discourse in ... Read More »
March 18, 2005
Like most creative types, authors like to brood about the fact that the world is not organized around principles of pure meritocracy. And what better contrast than, on the one hand, the brilliant but unknown ... Read More »
March 18, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
I’m one of four half-corked revellers in a pickup truck screaming through the desolate reaches of North Dakota, and I’ve just been stricken by a fearful thought: Where’s my pen? Moments earlier, one of my ... Read More »
March 18, 2005
The Surrey School District in suburban Vancouver is denying claims that the subject matter of one of Marion Crook's books – teen suicide – led to the decision to rescind the writer's invitation to speak ... Read More »
March 17, 2005
Madison Press Books has hired Martha Bucci for the newly created position of manager of rights and fulfillment. Bucci, who had been the manager of acquisitions and children’s sales for Georgetown Publications, joins Madison on ... Read More »
March 17, 2005
The saga of beleaguered publisher Pierre Turgeon took another turn Wednesday after he failed to appear at a bankruptcy hearing directed against his press, Trait d’union. According to Julien Beliveau – the man who filed ... Read More »
March 17, 2005
Agent Jackie Kaiser of Westwood Creative Artists has sold a new novel by Marilyn Bowering to Penguin Canada publisher Ed Carson. What It Takes to be Human is set in Victoria in the late 1930s ... Read More »
March 16, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
Serbian rights to three works by sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer – Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids – have been sold by Sawyer’s New York agent, Ralph Vicinanza, to Algoritam. Agent Jackie Kaiser of Westwood Creative ... Read More »
March 16, 2005 | Filed under: Book links
Patrick Lane leads the B.C. Book Prizes with a nomination in the non-fiction category for There Is A Season and one in the poetry category for Go Leaving Strange. Poet Robert Bringhurst has been named ... Read More »
March 16, 2005
The Association for the Export of Canadian Books has reorganized its staff, leading to these changes: ... Read More »
March 16, 2005 | Filed under: Awards
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