Dave Godfrey was many things: an author and publisher who was at the forefront of the CanLit explosion in the 1960s and ’70s, a teacher, a software developer, and a vintner. He was also a ... Read More »
One of the reasons I decided to write a mystery novel was my frustration with the issue of genre categorization, writes Susan Glickman In Shakespeare’s first folio, The Merchant of Venice is listed as a ... Read More »
June 4, 2015 | Filed under: Authors
U.S. Department of Justice denies Apple’s bid to remove court-appointed antitrust law monitor in wake of ebook price-fixing concerns. Authors Guild announces its "fair contract" initiative at BEA 2015. Award-winning bookstores honoured at BEA 2015. American ... Read More »
May 29, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Book culture, Book links, Book news
"My wife has said about me that I'm the only person she knows who would take a history of the guillotine to the beach." American novelist and short story writer Jim Shepard's choice of beach ... Read More »
May 28, 2015 | Filed under: Authors
In France, Rodin's apprentice Camille Claudel is legendary, so why isn't she more well known here, asks Carol Bruneau Camille Claudel first crossed my radar a decade ago, on a class visit to a ... Read More »
May 28, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture
Scottish conceptual artist Katie Paterson has chosen Margaret Atwood as the inaugural author to commit a manuscript to her Future Library project. The author will present her work at a ceremony on May 26 that ... Read More »
May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture
Michael V. Smith’s two novels, Cumberland and Progress (Cormorant Books) both deal with small towns, sexual orientation and familial ties. In that sense, they are not unlike his new memoir, My Body Is Yours (Arsenal ... Read More »
May 15, 2015 | Filed under: Authors
Project Bookmark Canada, which erects textual markers from stories and poems in the places where literary scenes are set, announced that the bookmark for Alistair MacLeod’s 1999 novel No Great Mischief will be unveiled Oct. 1 ... Read More »
May 12, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture
You can tell by the way Darwyn Cooke raves about the design elements of an old Toronto coffee shop that he spent his early creative career as a magazine art director. The Lite Bite Coffee ... Read More »
When Governor General Literary Award–winning Vancouver author John Vaillant saw Sasha Snow’s documentary, Conflict Tiger, he knew that he had to transform it into a book. Vaillant didn’t expect that Snow would read his 2005 ... Read More »
April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Writing life
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