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Battle of the bestselling wizards

Harry Potter may be approaching his grand finale but he may still have something to learn from an older master of magic. According to The Guardian: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has, for the ... Read More »

April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Better than Ondaatje?

By Alison Jones

The Independent posted an excerpt of an article originally published in the UK-based Mslexia magazine, in which Danuta Kean discusses the process of bringing great books to the big screen. The article references recent films ... Read More »

April 17, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Freedom Day at the Q&Q home office

By Leigh Anne Williams

Our undying thanks to the Friends of Q&Q who managed to smuggle a small carton of the new Stephen Colbert ice cream all the way from Rochester, New York, to our downtown Toronto HQ. Ice ... Read More »

April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

David Sedaris and a million little chuckles

By Leigh Anne Williams

There's a minor scandal brewing for American funnyman David Sedaris. Last month in a New Republic piece, Alex Heard called out Sedaris on embellishments and fabrications in several of his non-fiction humour pieces. Most of ... Read More »

April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Vonnegut obit roundup

By Leigh Anne Williams

As you no doubt know by now, legendary author Kurt Vonnegut has died. The New York Times has a comprehensive obit, as does The L.A. Times, while Salon has a slightly quirkier homage – writer ... Read More »

April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Using household appliances to promote your book, Miranda July-style

By Nathan Whitlock

No, this is not some kind of a free draw for a TV, it's Miranda July's homemade website promoting her collection of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, which Scribner is publishing ... Read More »

April 11, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Wershler-Henry hits The New Yorker

By Leigh Anne Williams

The latest book by CanLit mainstay Darren Wershler-Henry, The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typing, is reviewed in the latest New Yorker. (The book was published by McClelland & Stewart here in Canada but ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

A feast of literature

By Alison Jones

In an article in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik reflects on his cooking experiences with recipes taken from the pages of novels. "Cooking is to our literature what sex was to the writing of the ... Read More »

April 3, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Fun with blurbs (Rebecca Eckler edition)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The other day a finished copy of Rebecca Eckler's new memoir, Wiped, arrived here at the Q&Q home office, complete with a press release that included some admiring blurbs of Eckler's first book, Knocked Up. ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Hemingway's letters to Dietrich unsealed

By Nathan Whitlock

Thirty letters that Ernest Hemingway wrote to Marlene Dietrich between 1949 and 1959 will be revealed to the public on Monday, The New York Times reports. Donated by Dietrich's daughter, Maria Riva, the letters, which ... Read More »

March 30, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

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