Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez praised in obituary Colombia and Mexico presidents to attend memorial service The Paris Review recalls ... Read More »
April 21, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
Click on the thumbnails to see how designer Natalie Olsen draws on a 19th-century industrial accident to suggest the ... Read More »
April 17, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
Penguin Canada president and publisher Nicole Winstanley has acquired Canadian rights in a pre-empt to Journey Prize-winning short-story writer Yasuko Thanh’s first novel, The Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, inspired by her family history ... Read More »
April 16, 2014
It's rare (if ever) that Q&Q posts a link considered not safe for work, but we'll make an exception for David Cronenberg. A trailer for the filmmaker's debut novel, Consumed, has appeared on the website of ... Read More »
April 15, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
Melissa McAfee, special collections librarian at the University of Guelph, delicately opens a 1684 fifth edition of The Queen-Like Closet by Hannah Woolley, a British widower believed to be the first woman to make a ... Read More »
April 15, 2014 | Filed under: Libraries
Donna Tartt's third novel, The Goldfinch (Little, Brown), has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The 784-page bestseller, which beat out Philipp Meyer's The Son and Bob Shacochis' The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, was recently ... Read More »
April 14, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
One of Canada's most beloved musical families, the McGarrigles, will recount their personal and artistic history in a new memoir published by Random House Canada. The book will be co-written by Anna McGarrigle “ who ... Read More »
April 11, 2014 | Filed under: Deals
In less than three years, Canadian-born Jon Klassen has achieved superstar status in the international children's book world. Publishers Weekly reports that Klassen's first two picture books, I Want My Hat Back and the Caldecott Medal“winning ... Read More »
April 11, 2014 | Filed under: Book news
When Toronto teacher Lindsay Cochrane first read Yann Martel's allegorical, multi-layered novel Beatrice & Virgil (Knopf Canada), she was convinced it would make a fantastic theatre production. Four years later, the first-time playwright's adaptation is ... Read More »
April 10, 2014 | Filed under: Events
Riverdale's most famous redhead, Archie Andrews, will meet his demise in an upcoming issue this July. According to CNN, Archie Comics plans a bloody conclusion to its Life with Archie series, which imagines possible future ... Read More »
April 8, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
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