CBC Books has announced the longlist for the 14th annual Canada Reads competition. This year's edition, hosted by journalist Wab Kinew, intends to recognize "one book to break barriers." Members of an as yet anonymous ... Read More »
Legendary Pictures has optioned film rights for Toronto author Andrew Pyper's The Damned (Simon & Schuster Canada) before the novel's release in February. The company's films include Godzilla 300, Pacific Rim, and Inception. The Damned ... Read More »
December 18, 2014 | Filed under: Book news
Penguin Canada released a limited-edition anthology on Monday in support of Amnesty International's No More Stolen Sisters campaign, to which all of the book's proceeds will go. Edited by Joseph Boyden, Kwe: Standing With Our ... Read More »
Feminist publisher Second Story Press celebrated its 25th anniversary Dec. 5 with a party at the Cecil Street Community Centre in Toronto. Attendees were treated to musical entertainment by former Parachute Club singer Lorraine Segato, ... Read More »
December 11, 2014 | Filed under: Book news
Over at The Casual Optimist, Dan Wagstaff has created a couple of visually stunning posts featuring book covers of the year. Noting the "under-representation of YA book designers in all these end of the year cover ... Read More »
December 11, 2014 | Filed under: Book news
Wilfrid Laurier University Press has been handed a recommendation to “phase out or minimize” from university administrators, according to a petition being circulated online. The petition states that the recommendations include “severe cuts to the ... Read More »
December 5, 2014 | Filed under: Book news
Just in time for holiday-shopping season, Amazon and Hachette Book Group have announced that the two companies have signed a new multi-year contract that will allow Hachette to set prices on its ebooks, essentially bringing ... Read More »
November 13, 2014 | Filed under: Book news
Cathy Marie Buchanan is the winner of this year's Forest of Reading Evergreen Award for her book The Painted Girls (HarperCollins Canada), which was also slated for TV adaptation last fall. Initiated by the Ontario ... Read More »
November 7, 2014 | Filed under: Book news
Andrew Wylie has much to say about the book business, but it's not for the faint of heart. In his keynote address at the International Festival of Authors (and in the Q&A with CBC's Carol Off ... Read More »
October 28, 2014 | Filed under: Book news
In what might have been a scene straight out of Videodrome, filmmaker and novelist David Cronenberg spoke to philosophy professor Mark Kingwell about sex and violence, the mind-body problem, and the influence of Toronto at a ... Read More »
October 24, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news
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