Book culture

Heritage Toronto honours Milton Acorn and Gwendolyn MacEwen

Heritage Toronto is due to honour poet and playwright Milton Acorn and his former wife, author and CBC radio docudrama writer Gwendolyn MacEwen*, with a plaque on Toronto's Ward's Island. Acorn (1923–1986), a Charlottetown, P.E.I., ... Read More »

August 18, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, People

Book-launch venue hop: Café Deux Soleils, Vancouver

By Cheri Hanson

Each month, Q&Q visits dingy watering holes, upscale cafés, and other haunts in search of the country’s most beloved book-launch venues Each week, Vancouver poets, writers, and literary performers, and their fans, make a pilgrimage ... Read More »

August 6, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Emily St. John Mandel and Emma Hooper among surprise summer hits for U.K. booksellers

By Steven W. Beattie

Summer is vacation season for most people – a time to slow down, get away, and relax. Conventional wisdom has it that what is good for the body and soul is also good for the ... Read More »

July 27, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Stage adaption of I Want My Hat Back coming to London’s National Theatre

By Dory Cerny

Jon Klassen's much-lauded 2011 picture book debut, I Want My Hat Back, is getting the stage adaptation treatment, thanks to the National Theatre in London. The book, which tells the story of a bear who ... Read More »

July 22, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news, Children's publishing

Indigo to discount an additional 60 titles a month

By Becky Robertson

Heather Reisman, chair and CEO of Indigo Books and Music Inc., made a number of announcements at the company's annual general meeting in Toronto on June 29, including the retailer's plan to increase the number ... Read More »

June 30, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Bookselling

Cover to cover: David Drummond on designing Talya Rubin’s Leaving the Island

By Q&Q Staff

Designer David Drummond contends with bloody hands, barren stones, and feral sheep for the cover of Talya Rubin’s poetry collection Leaving the Island (Véhicule Press) 1. The first direction I explored was the idea of using a ... Read More »

June 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

New Anne of Green Gables movie coming to YTV

By Dory Cerny

Move over Megan Follows, there's a new Anne in town. Breakthrough Entertainment and Corus Entertainment have jointed forces on a new two-hour TV-movie adaptation of our country's most enduring story for young readers. Lucy Maud ... Read More »

June 3, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news

Book-launch venue hop: McNally Robinson Booksellers, Winnipeg

By Ariel Gordon

Each month, Q&Q visits dingy watering holes, upscale cafés, and other haunts in search of the country's most beloved book launch venues McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park store may be located in a suburban Winnipeg ... Read More »

June 1, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Events, Writing life

Apple spars with DOJ’s monitor, Authors Guild fair contract initiative unveiled, and more

By Monika Lemke

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

Last word: Carol Bruneau on Rodin’s apprentice, Camille Claudel

By Becky Robertson

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

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