Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Function meets beauty

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What’s the measure of a well-designed book? Appropriateness? Beauty? Elegance? Would it sit happily in a Toronto Life decoration spread? Will it fly to Frankfurt? Is it world class?All and none of the above, it ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The new Puritans

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No, they don’t claim a breaching of any literary Berlin Wall, this is not, repeat: not, the beginning of the revolution. Not yet, anyway. Better to think of an upcoming British anthology called All Hail ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

Plucked from obscurity

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It doesn’t sound like a healthy place to end up, the slush pile, and mostly it isn’t. Sure, every once in a while you hear a tale of the unsolicited manuscript that’s plucked from mid-heap, ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Hear my roar

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John Metcalf doesn’t mean to gush but, well, the thing about gushing, it’s hard to hold back. “I read her stories and the jaw just dropped,” the senior editor at Porcupine’s Quill says. Also: “This ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Onwards and leftwords

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The onslaught of large chain bookstores and corporate publishing houses hasn’t diminished the enthusiasm of the book world’s smallest players, judging by the turnout for Leftwords, a progressive book festival for independent book retailers, magazines, ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news, Opinion

Urban kink

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Canadian fiction has grown up, got a degree, moved to the big city and snagged a bad-ass job. It has taken some vacations abroad. It has become, in a word, cosmopolitan. Instead of Group-of-Seven devotion ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

We were astonished

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Among the five nominees for this year’s Governor General’s Award for children’s text were, for the first time in at least a decade, three picture books. The choices raised some eyebrows within the children’s book ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Authors