Quill and Quire

by Scott MacDonald

Death to critics

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Over the past few weeks, the Ontario-based publisher Biblioasis has been running a contest called Revenge Lit, in which authors were invited to submit 250-word tales about the murder of a literary critic. (The contest ... Read More »

June 17, 2009

Munro wins Booker

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The third ever Man Booker International Prize was announced late yesterday, and it has gone to Canada's own Alice Munro. She is the first Canadian to win the biennial £60,000 prize (the two previous winners ... Read More »

May 27, 2009 | Filed under: Awards

Saying goodbye

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As many of you probably already know, Quill & Quire's esteemed editor-in-chief, Derek Weiler, passed away unexpectedly last Sunday. All of us here at the magazine knew he had had lifelong health problems, but he ... Read More »

April 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news