by Sue Carter

Book Links: last minute federal election arts roundup! Plus a reading list for Blue Jays fans

Canada’s federal election: Canadian Art asks, Who should get the art vote?; Canadian Arts Coalition rounds up the federal parties’ arts platforms; Canadian Conference for the Arts encourages a vote for arts and culture. Joseph Boyden ... Read More »

October 19, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: Elvis Costello beats Keith Richards; in praise of Svetlana Alexievich; Kitchener Public Library is in a hotspot

By Sue Carter

Kitchener Public Library first in Canada to loan out Wi-Fi hotspots. (CBC) Why Svetlana Alexievich's Nobel Prize win is good for literature. (Flavorwire) There's a lot more to Sandra Boynton than just hippopotamuses. (New Yorker) ... Read More »

October 9, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

CWILA’s 2014 count suggests “quantifiable shift in gender representation” in literary media

By Sue Carter

Canadian Women in the Literary Arts, which tracks gender parity in literary criticism, has released its 2014 survey, with results that are marginally positive for women authors and reviewers. The annual report tracks the ratio ... Read More »

October 8, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Rosemary Sullivan wins Weston Prize for Stalin’s Daughter

By Sue Carter

Accomplished Toronto poet, author, and biographer Rosemary Sullivan has won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction for Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (HarperCollins Canada). The $60,000 award was ... Read More »

October 6, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Pivot reading series introduces trial voluntary author “trigger-warning” program

By Sue Carter

Trigger warnings identifying stories that contain potentially traumatic themes or images have become an increasingly prevalent – and controversial – subject in the news, on social media, and in classrooms. Now, in what could be ... Read More »

October 6, 2015

Canadian Publishers’ Council’s Jacqueline Hushion remembered as passionate industry advocate

By Sue Carter

For the second time in less than a year, the Canadian Publishers’ Council has lost a key staff member. Jacqueline Hushion, CPC’s longtime executive director of external relations, died on Sept. 27 from a recurring ... Read More »

October 5, 2015

Book Links: London Book Fair moves to March; a tween’s take on Elena Ferrante; a poetic consideration of the owl

By Sue Carter

Happy 40th to the Book Shop in Penticton, B.C. (Kelowna Daily Courier). How thousands of secondhand books from the U.S. end up in Nigeria (The New Yorker). From Twin Peaks to Winnie-the-Pooh, a poet delves ... Read More »

October 2, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Taste Canada Food Writing Awards recognize the year’s best culinary titles

By Sue Carter

The country's finest culinary titles were celebrated on Monday, Sept. 21, at the annual Taste Canada Food Writing Awards. Hosted by Ricardo and Vikram Vij, the event honoured eight French- and English-language titles, with the ... Read More »

September 22, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Book Links: Bourdain on bookmaking; Atwood on being double-plus unfree; envying Murakami’s record room

By Sue Carter

Anthony Bourdain breaks from noshing to watch letterpress bookmaking (Mental Floss). Be nice to your books, kids (Huffington Post). Not a buddy comedy: Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton's 1965 film collaboration (The Paris Review). Margaret ... Read More »

September 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Canada declines invitation to become Frankfurt Book Fair’s 2017 guest of honour

By Sue Carter

A lack of government funding is behind Canada’s decision to turn down a prestigious invitation to become the international guest of honour at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair. Livres Canada Books, a non-profit organization that ... Read More »

September 17, 2015

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Book Links: last minute federal election arts roundup! Plus a reading list for Blue Jays fans

Book Links: Elvis Costello beats Keith Richards; in praise of Svetlana Alexievich; Kitchener Public Library is in a hotspot

CWILA’s 2014 count suggests “quantifiable shift in gender representation” in literary media

Rosemary Sullivan wins Weston Prize for Stalin’s Daughter

Pivot reading series introduces trial voluntary author “trigger-warning” program

Canadian Publishers’ Council’s Jacqueline Hushion remembered as passionate industry advocate

Book Links: London Book Fair moves to March; a tween’s take on Elena Ferrante; a poetic consideration of the owl

Taste Canada Food Writing Awards recognize the year’s best culinary titles

Book Links: Bourdain on bookmaking; Atwood on being double-plus unfree; envying Murakami’s record room

Canada declines invitation to become Frankfurt Book Fair’s 2017 guest of honour

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