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Arthur Porter memoir optioned for film and television

A memoir by alleged fraudster Arthur Porter has been optioned for film and television by a yet-to-be-announced Montreal production company. Porter, who has been detained in a Panamanian prison on Canadian fraud charges since May ... Read More »

July 8, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Toronto Star donates a century’s worth of photographs to Toronto Public Library

By Julie Baldassi

Toronto Public Library has unveiled a massive new photo archive donated by Toronto Star. The archive, which consists of more than 1 million print photographs taken from 1900 to 1999, is held at the Toronto Reference Library ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Adaptation of Stephen King novella to film in Halifax

By Dory Cerny

Shooting has wrapped on the miniseries adaptation of Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes, but film crews in Nova Scotia won't have much time off before starting a new project. The Hollywood Reporter and Variety ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Editorial changes at Q&Q

By Q&Q Staff

Q&Q today announced some masthead changes. After five years in the role, editor Stuart Woods is stepping down. (His last day will be July 18.) Replacing him as editor is Q&Q’s current Web editor, Sue ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Hachette Book Group acquires Perseus Books Group

By Julie Baldassi

Publishers Lunch is reporting that Hachette Book Group has acquired the publishing and distribution company Perseus Books Group in “an unusual three-way transaction,” with a formal announcement expected from Hachette later today. According to Publishers Lunch: ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Wab Kinew lands two-book deal with Penguin Canada

By Julie Baldassi

Penguin Canada has acquired two titles by Wab Kinew, the Aboriginal musician, director of indigenous inclusion at the University of Winnipeg, and Adrienne Clarkson RTDNA Award–winning journalist who also successfully defended Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda ... Read More »

June 19, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Emily Schultz blogs about spending Stephen King’s money

By Dory Cerny

Say what you will about Amazon, but thanks to the online retailer's customers and some mass confusion over a book title, Canadian author Emily Schultz has been handed an unexpected windfall. As reported by Quillblog ... Read More »

June 18, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news

Novelist Robert Arthur Alexie has died

By Stuart Woods

Writer Robert Arthur Alexie (a.k.a. Robert Alexi Jr.), author of the novels Porcupines and China Dolls and The Pale Indian, has died at the age of 58. The CBC reports that his body was discovered ... Read More »

June 17, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Anansi launches #ReadWomen2014 campaign

By Julie Baldassi

Since writer and illustrator Joanna Walsh began her #ReadWomen2014 campaign in January, a movement that calls attention to the marginalization of female writers, the hashtag has swept the Internet, from TIME to Cosmopolitan. Today, House of Anansi Press, ... Read More »

June 5, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Atwood, Aronofsky to develop MaddAddam trilogy for HBO

By Stuart Woods

Margaret Atwood's dystopian MaddAddam trilogy is set to be developed for television in a major production for HBO. Deadline Holywood reports that filmmaker Darren Aronofsky is attached to the project as executive producer and may ... Read More »

June 5, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

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Arthur Porter memoir optioned for film and television

Toronto Star donates a century’s worth of photographs to Toronto Public Library

Adaptation of Stephen King novella to film in Halifax

Editorial changes at Q&Q

Hachette Book Group acquires Perseus Books Group

Wab Kinew lands two-book deal with Penguin Canada

Emily Schultz blogs about spending Stephen King’s money

Novelist Robert Arthur Alexie has died

Anansi launches #ReadWomen2014 campaign

Atwood, Aronofsky to develop MaddAddam trilogy for HBO

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