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Mike Shatzkin on why authors signing on to exclusive contracts with Amazon might be "a dangerous sign" for the publishing industry Jonathan Bennett on how working in palliative care influenced his poetry and the novel ... Read More »

September 26, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Playwright and actor Linda Griffiths dies at 60

By Steven W. Beattie

Linda Griffiths, actor, playwright, and staunch advocate for Canadian theatre, succumbed to breast cancer in Toronto over the weekend. She was 60 years old. Griffiths was best known for her 1980 one-woman play Maggie and ... Read More »

September 22, 2014 | Filed under: Authors

Remembering Wayne Tefs 1947–2014

By Steven W. Beattie

Quillblog was deeply saddened to learn last week of the passing of Wayne Tefs, author, critic, and co-founder of the Winnipeg publishing house Turnstone Press. Reports in the media indicate only that Tefs, 67, died ... Read More »

September 22, 2014 | Filed under: Authors

LGBT activist Jim Deva dies, celebrating (or not) Banned Books Week, and more

By Steven W. Beattie

Jim Deva, activist and co-owner of Vancouver's Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium, dead after accident in his home David Martin's "Tar Swan" wins CBC Poetry Prize British Lord, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, finds ... Read More »

September 22, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Surprise inclusions, omissions on Scotiabank Giller longlist

By Steven W. Beattie

Margaret Atwood. David Adams Richards. Ann-Marie MacDonald. Caroline Adderson. Michael Crummey. Johanna Skibsrud. David Bergen. Kate Pullinger. Fred Stenson. Rudy Wiebe. Emma Donoghue. Thomas King. These are among the heavy hitters of CanLit who failed ... Read More »

September 16, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Indie bookstores feeling some love, H.P. Lovecraft’s racism, and more

By Steven W. Beattie

"You're going to produce a cultural institution for the neighbourhood": Peter Dawson celebrates 20 years of Books on Beechwood In related news, independent bookstores experience a resurgence (in the U.S., at least) "Every fan needs ... Read More »

September 15, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

George Elliott Clarke and City of Toronto collaborate on tribute for late poet Raymond Souster

By Steven W. Beattie

It was cloudy on Saturday morning as a small group of people gathered in a sunken area off Bloor Street West in Toronto – an area known by its residents as Swansea. The occasion was ... Read More »

September 8, 2014 | Filed under: People

Interviewing Margaret Atwood, Jean-Marc Vallee’s inspiration, and more

By Steven W. Beattie

To coincide with the release of her new story collection, two interviews with Margaret Atwood, one of them significantly less awkward than the other "I was crying like a baby when I read the book": ... Read More »

September 8, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Books in translation take off in the U.K.; can they do the same in Canada?

By Steven W. Beattie

Two of the year's biggest bestsellers thus far have something in common – something that may come as a surprise to those who haven't really considered it. At first blush, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the ... Read More »

August 25, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Holocaust survivors pen open letter denouncing Elie Wiesel’s “abuse of … history”

By Steven W. Beattie

Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is also the author of dozens of books, the best-known of which is his 1955 memoir Night, about his experiences as a teenager in a Nazi concentration ... Read More »

August 25, 2014 | Filed under: Authors

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Amazon exclusives, crowd-sourced book editing, and more

Playwright and actor Linda Griffiths dies at 60

Remembering Wayne Tefs 1947–2014

LGBT activist Jim Deva dies, celebrating (or not) Banned Books Week, and more

Surprise inclusions, omissions on Scotiabank Giller longlist

Indie bookstores feeling some love, H.P. Lovecraft’s racism, and more

George Elliott Clarke and City of Toronto collaborate on tribute for late poet Raymond Souster

Interviewing Margaret Atwood, Jean-Marc Vallee’s inspiration, and more

Books in translation take off in the U.K.; can they do the same in Canada?

Holocaust survivors pen open letter denouncing Elie Wiesel’s “abuse of … history”

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