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Q&A with art star and kidlit up-and-comer CybÃ¨le Young

CybÃ¨le Young may have seemed like an overnight kidlit success when her most recent picture book, Ten Birds (Kids Can Press), won a Governor General's Literary Award last fall, but the Toronto-based artist actually began ... Read More »

March 6, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon, the iPad, and the culture of reading in an age of distraction

By Steven W. Beattie

It's like trying to cook when there are little children around. That's the assessment of one David Myers, a 53-year-old system administrator in Atlanta, regarding the experience of reading a book on the Kindle Fire. ... Read More »

March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Scott McIntyre to step down as CEO at D&M

By Natalie Samson

*D&M Publishers has announced company co-founder Scott McIntyre will step down as CEO. Effective July 1, McIntyre will relinquish from his role as CEO, though he will continue as chairman of D&M Publishers and director ... Read More »

March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Andrew Pyper sells manuscript to Universal Pictures, Simon & Schuster

By Natalie Samson

The film rights to Andrew Pyper's forthcoming novel, The Demonologist, have been optioned to Universal Pictures. The book follows a Columbia University professor and demonology expert who uses Milton's Paradise Lost as a guide to ... Read More »

March 1, 2012 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Deals

Gender disparity still an issue in literary publications

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Yesterday, VIDA, an organization for women in literary arts, published the results of a survey tallying the percentage of female reviewers, contributors, and authors that appeared in 14 established literary magazines in 2011. With the ... Read More »

February 29, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Lionel Gelber Prize goes to Ezra F. Vogel

By Natalie Samson

The 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize has been awarded to Ezra F. Vogel's Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, published by Belknap Press, an imprint of Harvard University Press. Vogel's book about the history and ... Read More »

February 29, 2012 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

From the Q&Q archives: “the new-style author event”

By Sue Carter

This week we head back to the July 2002 issue of Q&Q, and an article by Erin Gault on how young authors such as Dave Eggers and Sheila Heti were forgoing the traditional bookstore readings ... Read More »

February 24, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Barney Rosset dead at 89

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Chicago's Barney Rosset, the avant-garde publisher who was at the vanguard of the censorship battle around D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, died in Manhattan on Tuesday. He passed away ... Read More »

February 23, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Book adaptations win at the Academy Awards

By Sue Carter

While they may not receive as much attention as the dog from The Artist, six out of nine films nominated for this year's Best Picture at the Academy Awards were adapted from books. Shane Smith, ... Read More »

February 23, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Lawrence Hill awarded Freedom to Read prize for his grace under fire

By Stuart Woods

Lawrence Hill has been named the recipient of this year's Freedom to Read Award for his "reasoned and eloquent response to the threat to burn his novel The Book of Negroes, according to a statement ... Read More »

February 22, 2012 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

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Q&A with art star and kidlit up-and-comer CybÃ¨le Young

Amazon, the iPad, and the culture of reading in an age of distraction

Scott McIntyre to step down as CEO at D&M

Andrew Pyper sells manuscript to Universal Pictures, Simon & Schuster

Gender disparity still an issue in literary publications

Lionel Gelber Prize goes to Ezra F. Vogel

From the Q&Q archives: “the new-style author event”

Barney Rosset dead at 89

Book adaptations win at the Academy Awards

Lawrence Hill awarded Freedom to Read prize for his grace under fire

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