While this year may have seen more submissions than ever, the Canadian poets nominated for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize all have established reputations in this country. Two of this year's three Canadian nominees have ... Read More »
Novelist Howard Jacobson has written an open letter to The Observer criticizing a group of actors, playwrights, and directors who suggested that Israel's national theatre company, Habima, should not be allowed to perform at the ... Read More »
April 9, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Just Kids by Patti Smith. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Q Is for Quarry by Sue Grafton. While these books may appear to have little in common, ... Read More »
Tom Wilder in his Montreal studio (Photo: Jean Fitzgerald) When professional luthier Tom Wilder began documenting the theories and practices of violin conservation and repair for a three-volume set of reference books, he never dreamed ... Read More »
April 9, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
The City of Edmonton has named Judy Schultz's Freddy's War (Brindle & Glass) winner of the 2012 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. Schultz was presented the $10,000 prize at the Mayor's Celebration of ... Read More »
April 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
With the dust of the 10-day strike at the Toronto Public Library settling, two other public library systems face the possibility of job action. On Monday, public library workers in Regina voted 83 per cent ... Read More »
Zenia, the notorious liar from Margaret Atwood's 1993 novel The Robber Bride, has resurfaced. Atwood returns to her villainous character in "I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth," the first short story to ... Read More »
April 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Authors published with Wilfrid Laurier University Press, University of Toronto Press, and McGill-Queen's University Press are among the recipients of the 2012 Canada Awards. The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences presented the ... Read More »
Nova Scotia's South Shore Public Libraries has stopped acquiring ebooks from Random House to protest the publisher's recent price increase on digital titles. In a press release, chief librarian Troy Myers said the increase will ... Read More »
April 2, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology, Libraries
Last year, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Ann Patchett opened Parnassus Books, an independent bookstore in Nashville (a city that previously had no bookstore of its own). Her efforts to support independent bookselling have secured her a ... Read More »
April 2, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
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