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Emily Schultz blogs about spending Stephen King’s money

Say what you will about Amazon, but thanks to the online retailer's customers and some mass confusion over a book title, Canadian author Emily Schultz has been handed an unexpected windfall. As reported by Quillblog ... Read More »

June 18, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news

New Republic’s Christopher Ketcham accuses Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges of plagiarism

By Steven W. Beattie

In a lengthy article published June 12 on the New Republic website, writer Christopher Ketcham states that Harper's magazine killed a 2010 investigative report by noted progressive journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges after ... Read More »

June 16, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Eleanor Catton takes on gendered language in book coverage

By Steven W. Beattie

Last week, Neko Case created a stir on Twitter when she responded to a tweet from Playboy.com that claimed she is "breaking the mould of what women in the music industry should be." The phrase ... Read More »

May 26, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Cover to Cover: Chris Hutchinson’s Jonas in Frames

By Sue Carter

Click on the thumbnails to see how book designer Chris Tompkins combined photography and illustration to convey the ... Read More »

May 23, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Chris Hadfield announces new book of space photos

By Sue Carter

Former astronaut Chris Hadfield revealed details about his forthcoming book on Twitter today. You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes is a collection of unpublished photos taken from the International Space Station, accompanied ... Read More »

April 24, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Sina Queyras and Adam Sol on the state of Canadian poetry

By Steven W. Beattie

It is virtually impossible to argue against the notion that Canadian poetry has come of age. If F.R. Scott was able to say, as recently as 1976, that when he and A.J.M. Smith launched the ... Read More »

April 21, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Cover to Cover: Janet Munsil’s That Elusive Spark

By Sue Carter

Click on the thumbnails to see how designer Natalie Olsen draws on a 19th-century industrial accident to suggest the ... Read More »

April 17, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

NSFW: David Cronenberg’s new book trailer

By Sue Carter

It's rare (if ever) that Q&Q posts a link considered not safe for work, but we'll make an exception for David Cronenberg. A trailer for the filmmaker's debut novel, Consumed, has appeared on the website of ... Read More »

April 15, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Archie Comics to kill off Archie

By Sue Carter

Riverdale's most famous redhead, Archie Andrews, will meet his demise in an upcoming issue this July. According to CNN, Archie Comics plans a bloody conclusion to its Life with Archie series, which imagines possible future ... Read More »

April 8, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Protecting The Little Prince in the public domain

By Sue Carter

BOLOGNA, ITALY. The licensing of popular literary and pop-culture characters is big business at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, with an entire hall dedicated to this facet of the industry. In 2015, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's ... Read More »

March 26, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

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