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Author close-up: Jean Chretien

Former prime minister Jean Chretien appeared at BookExpo Canada as the guest of honour at a Random House of Canada reception on Sunday afternoon, promoting his upcoming memoir, A Passion for Politics. On Monday morning, ... Read More »

June 11, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Heard & Overheard (BOOKED's mystery writers roundtable)

By Q&Q Staff

On Saturday morning, the Canadian Crime Writers' Association put together a group of notable mystery authors to chat about "What's Hot and What's Not in Mystery" in the Speigeltent, next to Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, as ... Read More »

June 9, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Heard & Overheard (BOOKED! "Men of Letters" Edition)

By Q&Q Staff

Harbourfront's Geoffrey Taylor, on whether he was nervous before the first-ever BOOKED event: "There's a lot of good bars around here; I don't know if you've noticed." Ray Robertson, on reading from a novel that ... Read More »

June 8, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Gore Vidal threatens to sue playwright

By Nathan Whitlock

American author Gore Vidal is threatening to sue playwright Edmund White over a play that debuted last month in London, the National Post reports. The play, Terre Haute, is a fictional presentation of a relationship ... Read More »

June 6, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Diary of another young girl

By Nathan Whitlock

The diary of a teenage Jewish girl written in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943 has been authenticated and published in Hebrew and English by Israel's Holocaust museum as Rutka's Notebook, The Guardian reports. Rutka Laskier was ... Read More »

June 6, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Eckler vs. Hollywood

By Leigh Anne Williams

The hit Hollywood comedy Knocked Up opened this past weekend to rave reviews and big box office. The movie is about a couple dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, and whatever the film's strengths, no one ... Read More »

June 4, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Robertson Davies gets own park

By Leigh Anne Williams

CanLit superstar Robertson Davies, who died in 1995, had a Toronto park officially named after him this week, The Globe and Mail reports. Robertson Davies Park is located on Avenue Road, not far from the ... Read More »

May 31, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Plan to honour Silent Spring author blocked in U.S. senate

By Nathan Whitlock

Raw Story reports that two bills are in the works in the U.S. to honour Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring – one to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth and one to name ... Read More »

May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

James Patterson to close Toronto readers' festival

By Nathan Whitlock

BOOKED!, the readers' festival created to accompany BookExpo Canada, has confirmed (as previously reported by Q&Q Omni) that bestselling thriller author James Patterson will be the star of a finale event to close the festival ... Read More »

May 16, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Keep on working (and writing)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The publication of a couple of office-set novels, Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End and Jenny Turner's The Brainstorm, has writer DJ Taylor wondering (in The Independent) why there aren't more novels about ... Read More »

May 10, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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