In the November issue of Q&Q, Sarah Lazarovic, author-illustrator of the new book A Bunch of Pretty Things ... Read More »
November 5, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
Four hundred students participated in the Strong Girls, Strong World conference at Toronto's Central Technical School on Oct. 23. Each student received a copy of Every Day is Malala Day (Second Story Press), written by ... Read More »
October 24, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
In what might have been a scene straight out of Videodrome, filmmaker and novelist David Cronenberg spoke to philosophy professor Mark Kingwell about sex and violence, the mind-body problem, and the influence of Toronto at a ... Read More »
October 24, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news
Yes, Listen Up Philip features an insufferable author protagonist, but Alexander Huls argues that the film is as close to a literary experience as you'll ever witness on the big screen Frankly, Listen Up Philip ... Read More »
October 24, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
If her friend and fellow comedian Steve Martin had his way, Andrea Martin’s debut book would have been called Perky Tits. “In the end,” she writes in the book’s prologue, “my beloved editor nixed the ... Read More »
October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture
David Balzer examines how the art world's obsession with "curationism" came to influence our personal reading identities The widely loathed, widely used contemporary action word “curate” can be traced back to performance. The adjective “curated” ... Read More »
October 22, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture, Digital publishing and technology
It’s been a rich season for Can-comedy titles, with memoirs from SCTV’s Andrea Martin and Martin Short, and now Kids in the Hall’s Bruce McCulloch. Let’s Start a Riot: How a Young Drunk Punk Became ... Read More »
October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture
Designer Marijke Friesen draws on medical images and landscape illustration to convey the sense of Christine Fischer Guy’s debut novel, The Umbrella Mender (Buckrider Books) 1. I was very excited to find this photograph. The ... Read More »
October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
A single-volume tasting menu of short-fiction writers will introduce readers to some of the most important voices in Canadian literature, writes John Metcalf Short stories have for years been considered a minor form, despite the ... Read More »
October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture
Hamilton writer Susan Fast is the author of Michael Jackson: Dangerous, the 100th volume of Bloomsbury's hip pocket-book music series, 33 1/3. A musicologist and cultural studies professor at McMaster University, Fast is the first ... Read More »
October 14, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
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