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Stairway to book heaven?

A British architecture firm, Levitate Architects, has come up with a novel way for apartment-dwellers to accommodate their too-large book collections. In a genius stroke, they have created a combo bookshelf/staircase, which you can see ... Read More »

February 22, 2008 | Filed under: Events

Photos from 100 years of Anne event

By Q&Q Staff

Penguin Canada held a "100 Years of Anne" launch party at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum on a snowy Tuesday, February 12, evening. (All photos by Jason Nolan.) Penguin editor Helen Reeves tells about when she ... Read More »

February 15, 2008 | Filed under: Events

Luminato unveils literary line-up

By Scott MacDonald

It was a miserably snowy afternoon for a press conference in Toronto yesterday, but Luminato CEO Janice Price soldiered ahead anyway, making a formal announcement of the festival's 2008 literary line-up in front of a ... Read More »

February 13, 2008 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

Robert Weaver remembered

By Scott MacDonald

An industry tribute to the late Robert Weaver, who died last Saturday at the age of 87, was held in Toronto's Massey College last night (see photo below). Though it was a small, closed gathering, ... Read More »

January 31, 2008 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

Event Photos: A Golden Age and The Donut: A Canadian History

By Nathan Whitlock

Below are two photos from two recent events. Though both events were hosted by This Is Not a Reading Series and held at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel, you may detect some subtle differences between the two ... Read More »

January 30, 2008 | Filed under: Events

Small Press Book Fair spat gets ugly

By Stuart Woods

Last December, Quillblog noted a spat between Toronto Small Press Book Fair organizers Myna Wallin and Halli Villegas and one of the event's founders, poet Stuart Ross. The controversy stemmed from comments posted by Ross ... Read More »

January 22, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Photos from the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award

By Nathan Whitlock

Last night, the winner of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers was announced. This being the first year the award is sponsored by the RBC Foundation, the ceremony was held, appropriately enough, in ... Read More »

January 16, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Events

Bookmarks: scoring in a bookstore, stealing chairs from a library, ambushing former PMs on a book tour, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: The art of the bookstore pickup (MSN.com) Ex-library director gets 10 days for stealing chairs (Cantonrep.com) Tinfoil helmet time: Chretien repeatedly ambushed by 9/11 "truthers" at book events (Canada Wants 9/11 Truth) ... Read More »

December 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book links, Events

Event photos: Encyclopedia Manitobica

By Leigh Anne Williams

Great Plains Publications launched The Encyclopedia of Manitoba with an event at the Winnipeg Art Gallery earlier this month, and drew some high-profile guests. (Photos courtesy of Great Plains.) Ed Schreyer, a former premier of ... Read More »

November 21, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Event photo: Roy MacSkimming meets John A.

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's pretty rare to see grownups playing dressup at a book event unless the book in question includes the words "Harry Potter" or "Jedi" in the title. But that's Sir John A. Macdonald (well, actually, ... Read More »

November 21, 2007 | Filed under: Events

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