In 1992, when Dean Cooke decided to open his own literary agency, the book business was in the pits. The recession was in full swing; publishers – including Cooke’s employer, Bantam Seal – had ceased ... Read More »
October 20, 2014
It’s been a rich season for Can-comedy titles, with memoirs from SCTV’s Andrea Martin and Martin Short, and now Kids in the Hall’s Bruce McCulloch. Let’s Start a Riot: How a Young Drunk Punk Became ... Read More »
October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture
U.K. postal service celebrates Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize win with special postmark Amazon hiring 80,000 temp workers for holiday season U.S. publishers and agents react to Amazon's pop-up shops Chronicle Books publishes the personal notebooks ... Read More »
October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
Naomi Klein's environmental manifesto This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Knopf Canada) has won the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction. The award was presented at a gala on Tuesday night held ... Read More »
October 15, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
Hamilton writer Susan Fast is the author of Michael Jackson: Dangerous, the 100th volume of Bloomsbury's hip pocket-book music series, 33 1/3. A musicologist and cultural studies professor at McMaster University, Fast is the first ... Read More »
October 14, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
For more than 40 years, longtime Montreal Gazette food writer and former editor Julian Armstrong has travelled across her adopted home of Quebec, interviewing farmers, producers, and chefs while documenting the regional cuisine. The 82-year-old ... Read More »
October 10, 2014 | Filed under: Book news
Fans of Kelley Armstrong and Melissa Marr's middle-grade Blackwell Pages trilogy may have to wait until May 2015 for the final title, Thor's Serpents, but until then, here's an exclusive look at its cover. Marr, ... Read More »
October 9, 2014 | Filed under: Children's publishing
It's only the first day of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and already there have been three seven-figure deals announced, all for debuts by American women. The most high-profile deal is for 25-year-old Emma Cline’s novel ... Read More »
October 8, 2014 | Filed under: Deals
Award season continues with this year's shortlists for the 2014 Governor General's Literary Awards. In what may come as a surprise to those who follow Canadian literary awards (or who placed bets on the lists), ... Read More »
October 7, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
House of Anansi Press’s entrance into the cookbook market is a foul-mouthed affair. On Oct. 7, the Toronto publishing house releases its first cookbook, Thug Kitchen, a collection of recipes from the anonymously written vegan ... Read More »
October 6, 2014
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