I am one of those purists who believe that - wait a minute, shouldn't that be "believes?" Well, actually no, it shouldn't, but you're right to stop and think. The number (the grammatical term for ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
The Fall season’s swankiest soiree-by far-was for James Chatto's The Man Who Ate Toronto: Memoirs of a Restaurant Lover, co-hosted by publisher Macfarlane Walter & Ross and the Park Plaza (soon to be the Grand ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
About 20 years ago, in the late 1970s, I happened to attend a writers' conference in Calgary, and one of the items on the program was an address by a curator of the University of ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
The great Montreal Canadiens right winger Guy Lafleur once said he loved him more than he hated him. The goalie Ken Dryden, Lafleur's teammate in Montreal during the 1970s, wrote that he was "abrupt, straightforward, ... Read More »
March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Library workers under the newly amalgamated Toronto Public Library (TPL) system - now the fifth largest system in North America - have voted the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 416 as their new ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
Who says a bookstore has to sell only the final product?Peter Oliva, co-owner of Pages Books on Kensington, has decided his Calgary store has a role to play in the creative process behind the books ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
Despite phenomenal sales in the U.S. and strong orders by Canadian booksellers, The Starr Report doesn't appear to be flying off bookshelves in Canada. "Our sales have been disappointing," Chapters' spokesperson Helena Aalto said instarr-report-sales-sluggish/> ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
The 45 employees at Renaud-Bray s flagship store in Montreal have recently become the only trade book store employees in Quebec (and possibly Canada) to be unionized. Their demand for accreditation was granted in September, ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
It wasn’t until after Peter Clement had acquired a New York agent and begun shopping his first novel around that he learned one of his first lessons in Canadian publishing: Canuck companies tend to steer ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
When Ken Thomson joined McClelland & Stewart three years ago, he began drawing on the expertise he gained outside the publishing industry to make a number of changes at the company. Some of the initiatives, ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
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