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Conrad Black, cyborg, vs. Jean Chretien, memoirist

At a book signing in Toronto last night, Conrad Black appeared "relaxed and smiling" from his home in Palm Beach, where Black is spending time ahead of sentencing next month in Chicago. Sitting at the ... Read More »

October 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Tomine to Lethem: butt out, smartypants

By Stuart Woods

Comics artist Adrian Tomine tells The Believer that excessive praise for his just-released graphic novel Shortcomings – which was serialized in his popular comic Optic Nerve – makes him uneasy. Specifically, he raises doubts that ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Hope for school libraries (in Ontario, anyway)

By Leigh Anne Williams

Heather Reisman can take a bow today. The Indigo CEO appears to have shamed Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty into promising a major funding boost for the province's cash-starved school library system. As The Globe and ... Read More »

September 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

New in the print Q&Q

By Leigh Anne Williams

Coming soon to a newsstand or mailbox near you is the October 2007 issue of Quill & Quire. Our cover story is a profile of Cape Breton writer D.R. MacDonald. The issue also looks at ... Read More »

September 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Naomi Klein's "fevered" prose

By Stuart Woods

In case you haven't noticed, Naomi Klein's new book, The Shock Doctrine, tends to divide critics and political pundits into two camps: those who support her contentious thesis – basically, that Chicago School neoliberals capitalize ... Read More »

September 11, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

Watch this space: Q&Q on Klein

By Leigh Anne Williams

You may have heard that Naomi Klein has a new book out this week, The Shock Doctrine. Watch the reviews section of the Q&Q website tomorrow for contributor Dan Rowe's review of the book. The ... Read More »

September 7, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

The very model of a modern author website

By Leigh Anne Williams

Authors and publishers who are still wondering what kind of information they should be putting on this thing called the Internet should take a look at the website D.F. Bailey has built for his new ... Read More »

August 30, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

CanLit galore at Toronto's film fest

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off next week, and the lineup features a healthy array of CanLit tie-ins. There's already been much ballyhoo about Jeremy Podeswa's adaptation of Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces, and about ... Read More »

August 30, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

MtvU names first poet laureate

By Nathan Whitlock

MtvU, a branch of MTV that broadcasts on 750 U.S. college campuses, announced this week that it has chosen its first poet laureate, The New York Times reports. And while names such as Bob Dylan ... Read More »

August 29, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Residential school reading

By Nathan Whitlock

Monday was the deadline for former students of native residential schools to opt out of a $2-billion compensation package offered by the federal government for abuses they suffered while attending the schools. (Accepting compensation means ... Read More »

August 22, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

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