Clara Callan not only gave Richard B. Wright a new readership, it also gave his entire backlist a new life. It remains to be seen how many of those recent Wright converts are diving into ... Read More »
September 14, 2004
Fans of online litmag The Danforth Review breathed a collective sigh of relief this month when editor and founder Michael Bryson announced intentions to keep the site going – with a new focus on shortthe-danforth-review/> ... Read More »
September 13, 2004
Vancouver children’s publisher Simply Read Books has found a new distributor. The Raincoast Books-owned Publishers Group Canada is taking over from Login Brothers Canada, effective Sept. 1.Simply Read publisher Dimiter Savoff launched the house three ... Read More »
September 13, 2004
It’s a mix of genres in the recently announced shortlist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. A children’s ghost story, a collection of three novellas, and a biography of a former Vancouver mayor will ... Read More »
September 13, 2004
Due to a sudden “severe cash flow problem,” the longtime executive director of The League of Canadian Poets was laid off Tuesday evening.After 12 years with the organization, Edita Page was informed of the decision ... Read More »
September 9, 2004
Vancouver’s TalonBooks is planning to leave the Literary Press Group's sales force and University of Toronto Press Distribution. Talon is negotiating to be represented nationally by Publishers Group Canada and internationally by Illinois-based Northwestern University ... Read More »
September 9, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
The Toronto Book Awards Committee couldn't choose just one, so they picked both Kevin Bazzana's Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould (McClelland & Stewart) and Kate Taylor's Mme Proust and the Kosher ... Read More »
September 9, 2004
McClelland & Stewart senior editor of non-fiction Chris Bucci has signed Max Lenderman's The XM Manifesto: Experience Is the Message. Lenderman is a Montreal-based marketing professional, and his book outlines a “radically new” business model ... Read More »
September 8, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Knopf Canada associate editor Kendall Anderson has signed a deal for Canadian rights to Martha Baillie’s third novel, About Gustave. The book is largely written as a series of letters between a married Toronto woman ... Read More »
September 8, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
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