by Steven W. Beattie

FOLD announces new workshop series, accessibility committee

The Festival of Literary Diversity, based in Brampton, Ontario, announced on Wednesday two new initiatives meant to increase accessibility at the festival itself, and within the writing and publishing communities more generally. The first of ... Read More »

August 24, 2017

Jack Rabinovitch: “He believed in the books, the readers, the publishers, and literary community with a rare joy and hopefulness”

By Steven W. Beattie

Jack Rabinovitch – the Montreal-born businessman and philanthropist who died in Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital on Aug. 6, at the age of 87 – changed the face of Canadian literature on account of a broken heart. ... Read More »

August 10, 2017

Fall Preview 2017: Fiction

By Steven W. Beattie

Toronto tales Three forthcoming novels turn their attention to different neighbourhoods in Canada’s most populous city. David Chariandy’s long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed debut, Soucouyant, explores the confluence of masculinity, race, and violence in the ... Read More »

June 26, 2017

Fall Preview 2017: Kevin Hardcastle’s punch-drunk debut novel

By Steven W. Beattie

For Kevin Hardcastle, being a writer has a lot in common with training as a fighter. The author, who hails from the town of Midland, in Ontario’s Simcoe County, is an aficionado of mixed martial ... Read More »

June 26, 2017

Shari Lapena’s follow-up to The Couple Next Door to appear in the U.K. in advance of its Canadian debut

By Steven W. Beattie

This summer, Doubleday Canada will publish A Stranger in the House, Shari Lapena's hotly anticipated follow-up to her blockbuster 2016 thriller, The Couple Next Door. But, somewhat surprisingly, the Aug. 15 Canadian pub date does ... Read More »

May 16, 2017 | Filed under: Authors

Fallout from TWUC editorial on cultural appropriation continues unabated

By Steven W. Beattie

The fallout from Hal Niedzviecki's controversial editor's note in the most recent issue of the Writers' Union of Canada's Write magazine continued unabated throughout the past weekend. Niedzviecki quickly resigned as editor of TWUC's official ... Read More »

May 15, 2017 | Filed under: Book culture

New books examine the stigma of PTSD among Canadian soldiers

By Steven W. Beattie

The numbers are as sobering as they are troubling. According to André Picard, The Globe and Mail’s health columnist, Canada’s combat mission in Afghanistan yielded 158 casualties among soldiers. That figure is high enough on ... Read More »

April 17, 2017

IFOA’s Geoffrey Taylor honoured by French government as Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

By Steven W. Beattie

Geoffrey Taylor, the director of the Toronto Harbourfront International Festival of Authors, has been bestowed with a particularly prestigious international honour. Taylor has been named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the ... Read More »

March 27, 2017 | Filed under: Awards

Education of Augie Merasty launches One Book, One Province Saskatchewan initiative, days after author’s death

By Steven W. Beattie

A 2015 memoir about a Cree trapper's childhood experiences in a northern residential school has been chosen for the inaugural One Book, One Province Saskatchewan program. The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir, ... Read More »

March 1, 2017

Richard B. Wright, author of Clara Callan, dies at 79

By Steven W. Beattie

Richard B. Wright, whose 2001 novel Clara Callan is a bona fide CanLit classic, has died at the age of 79. Wright, who lived in the Ontario city of St. Catharines, died unexpectedly from a ... Read More »

February 8, 2017 | Filed under: Authors

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FOLD announces new workshop series, accessibility committee

Jack Rabinovitch: “He believed in the books, the readers, the publishers, and literary community with a rare joy and hopefulness”

Fall Preview 2017: Fiction

Fall Preview 2017: Kevin Hardcastle’s punch-drunk debut novel

Shari Lapena’s follow-up to The Couple Next Door to appear in the U.K. in advance of its Canadian debut

Fallout from TWUC editorial on cultural appropriation continues unabated

New books examine the stigma of PTSD among Canadian soldiers

IFOA’s Geoffrey Taylor honoured by French government as Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Education of Augie Merasty launches One Book, One Province Saskatchewan initiative, days after author’s death

Richard B. Wright, author of Clara Callan, dies at 79

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