This morning, the shortlist for the 12th annual Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize was announced at Toronto's Ben McNally ... Read More »
September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
Toronto writer Joshua Knelman has won this year's Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction for Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art (Douglas & McIntyre). The $10,000 award, administered ... Read More »
September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
OCAD's $180 picture less art textbook goes viral Neil Young shares details about his new memoir, Waging Heavy Peace, with David Carr Entertainment moguls Scott Rudin and Barry Diller form publishing partnership with Atavist European ... Read More »
September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
Taking on the world Bill Gaston is known as a writers' writer and mentor for the next generation of Canadian authors. Could his ambitious new novel make him a household name? Outsider advantage Three progressive ... Read More »
September 18, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Stephen King announces release date for The Shining sequel Sheila Heti shares music playlists for How Should a Person Be and The Middle Stories Agatha Christie propaganda essay, commissioned by the British Ministry of Information, ... Read More »
September 18, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
On Sept. 25, the shortlist for the second annual Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for non-fiction will be announced. One of last year's nominees, Charlotte Gill's Eating Dirt, is number one on this week's Canadian ... Read More »
September 17, 2012 | Filed under: Bestsellers
Salman Rushdie's "non-fiction novel" a monument to his time in hiding Tilda Swinton and David Cameron among readers of ambitious Moby-Dick audio project Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend dispels myths around the author's writing process How The ... Read More »
September 17, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
Fire damages unique book collections at Calgary's central library Twenty must-read books for film lovers Indie bookseller gives first impression of Kobo e-readers and the ABA deal Amazon Publishing shares sales numbers with agents With ... Read More »
September 14, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
Independent presses dominate the shortlist for the 2012 City of Vancouver Book Award, which was announced today. The $2,000 annual prize recognizes "authors of excellence of any genre who contribute to the appreciation and understanding ... Read More »
September 13, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
Yoko Ono, JD Samson among artists and activists contributing to Pussy Riot ebook How long can Gabriel's Inferno author Sylvain Reynard remain anonymous? Texas librarians work directly with authors to deliver ebooks Kodak Picture Kiosks ... Read More »
September 13, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
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