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Book Making: Rachel Richey on redefining Canada’s comic heroes

Rachel Richey is a comics historian and the owner and publisher of Comic Syrup Press, which specializes in reprinting Golden Age Canadian comic books, many of them unseen for decades. Using a panel from CSP’s ... Read More »

July 30, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Q&A: Morgan Neville, co-director of Vidal-Buckley debate documentary Best of Enemies

By Alexander Huls

In 1968, two intellectual giants stepped onto an ABC studio set to begin a series of political debates. One man was author, liberal, and enfant terrible Gore Vidal. The other was commentator, staunch conservative, and ... Read More »

July 29, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Queens independent bookstore refuses profit on new Ta-Nehisi Coates book to boost readership

By Steven W. Beattie

The book that Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison has called "required reading" appears at an auspicious time for race relations in the U.S. Between the World and Me, the sophomore release from Ta-Nehisi Coates, national ... Read More »

July 28, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Q&A: Jacqueline Baker and Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer on ChiZine’s upcoming Bond anthology

By Becky Robertson

ChiZine Publications co-editors Madeline Ashby and David Nickle have released the line-up of authors contributing to the press's forthcoming James Bond anthology, License Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, due in November. Nineteen stories by writers ... Read More »

July 27, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Preview

Q&A: Kidlit author-illustrator Ashlyn Anstee

By Dory Cerny

Canadian expat Ashlyn Anstee’s debut picture book, Are We There, Yeti?, was released by Simon & Schuster Canada this week. Her follow-up, No, No, Gnome!, is forthcoming from S&S in early 2016. We caught up ... Read More »

July 23, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Children's publishing

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

Q&A: Susan Musgrave on her new cookbook

By Sue Carter

In 2010, poet Susan Musgrave took over the Copper Beech bed and breakfast on Haida Gwaii. A longtime resident of the B.C. island, Musgrave’s latest book, A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and ... Read More »

July 20, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, Emily Carroll win 2015 Eisner Awards

By Becky Robertson

Toronto illustrator Jillian Tamaki and cousin, writer Mariko Tamaki, have won this year's Eisner Award for best new graphic novel for their Michael L. Printz and Caldecott Honor–winning 2014 YA title, This One Summer. The ... Read More »

July 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Cheryl Strayed to publish book of quotes with Knopf Canada

By Becky Robertson

Knopf Canada is due to publish a book of more than 100 collected quotes by best-selling Oregon-based author Cheryl Strayed, titled Brave Enough. Strayed's 2012 memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest ... Read More »

July 9, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

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

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Book Making: Rachel Richey on redefining Canada’s comic heroes

Q&A: Morgan Neville, co-director of Vidal-Buckley debate documentary Best of Enemies

Queens independent bookstore refuses profit on new Ta-Nehisi Coates book to boost readership

Q&A: Jacqueline Baker and Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer on ChiZine’s upcoming Bond anthology

Q&A: Kidlit author-illustrator Ashlyn Anstee

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

Q&A: Susan Musgrave on her new cookbook

Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, Emily Carroll win 2015 Eisner Awards

Cheryl Strayed to publish book of quotes with Knopf Canada

New Anne of Green Gables movie coming to YTV

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