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Residential school reading

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

Wieseltier vs. New Yorker, Part Deux

By Leigh Anne Williams

The New York Observer has more on literary critic James Wood's defection from The New Republic to The New Yorker. The angle: will Wood have to tone down his hard-hitting approach to criticism, since The ... Read More »

August 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

What was that about a job?

By Q&Q jobs

This week on Q&Q's Job Board: Publicist - Meisner Publicity (Toronto, ON) Publisher Technical Sales Executive - R.R. Bowker, LLC (Metro-Toronto) Sales Manager (Bilingual) - Lobster Press (Montreal, Quebec) Marketing Associate – part time position ... Read More »

August 15, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

In the September Q&Q

By Leigh Anne Williams

Step right up, folks, the September 2007 issue of Quill & Quire is out now. It features a cover profile of author Elizabeth Hay, whose new novel is set in a Yellowknife CBC station in ... Read More »

August 15, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Harper appoints new Heritage minister

By Nathan Whitlock

Yesterday's cabinet shuffle in Stephen Harper's government included moving Josee Verner into Bev Oda's position as minister of Canadian Heritage. Verner, who was first elected in the Quebec City riding of Louis-Saint-Laurent in 2006, was ... Read More »

August 15, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

A stamp of disapproval for M&S

By Leigh Anne Williams

Every publisher gets a little bad press now and then; it's part of the game. But rarely does it come from the stamp-collecting media. McClelland & Stewart, though, has gotten some unflattering attention from Canadian ... Read More »

August 9, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Who needs book designers?

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a cute stunt, Penguin U.K. has asked musicians to design new covers for six of its classic titles. As The Guardian reports, Beck took on the French novel Le Grand Meaulnes, Johnny Borrell of ... Read More »

August 2, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Robert J. Sawyer speaks out against library cuts

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer has sent an open letter to Toronto mayor David Miller to protest plans to cut service at the Toronto Public Library. In a passionate and compelling argument, Sawyer says, in ... Read More »

August 2, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Friday fun, part 2: books may be addictive

By Leigh Anne Williams

Winner of this week's clever design sweepstakes comes to us from Britain. It's this's TankBooks project, in which several classic novellas and stories are being released in cigarette-style packages. (Thanks to the design site Veer ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Hard times at the Toronto Public Library

By Leigh Anne Williams

Bad news for Toronto readers: faced with the city's budget shortfall, the Toronto Public Library board has agreed to more than a million dollars in spending cuts this year. As the Toronto Star reports, that ... Read More »

July 26, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

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