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In a time of increasingly imaginative and/or aggressive marketing efforts -- from holding a book launch at Value Village to spray-painting tigers on sidewalks -- Penguin Canada author Craig Davidson is upping the ante. To ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Fear of Toronto fiction

By Leigh Anne Williams

To mark its (final) Summer Fiction issue, Toronto Life is running a web-only roundtable discussion with three Toronto authors: Shyam Selvadurai, Sheila Heti, and Andrew Pyper. The subject is "Toronto literature," and a couple of ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The new face of summer magazine fiction

By Leigh Anne Williams

The magazine market for fiction may not be in quite so critical a condition after all. Toronto Life has announced plans to drop its annual Summer Fiction feature, but another city magazine has just kicked ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The secretly lucrative bookselling trade

By Leigh Anne Williams

In his National Post arts column, Robert Fulford looks at Toronto antiquarian bookseller David Mason, who recently moved into a new and more spacious Toronto store, and Fulford takes a few swipes at booksellers in ... Read More »

July 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

HarperCollins saves this little piggy from the chopping block

By Cassandra Drudi

In this week's episode of "Meet Your Meat," HarperCollins saves a photogenic porcine pin-up from his fate at the end of an axe. Boonkinja links to an NBC story about HarperCollins' search for a fresh ... Read More »

July 12, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Reach for the mop

By Leigh Anne Williams

On his blog, Gladecstaticgrin, Canadian poet Pino Coluccio has posted an entry about pitching a poetry game show to Bravo. "Think 'Name That Tune' only the host -- Canadian publishing icon Jack David -- reads ... Read More »

July 6, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Writin' 'bout my generation

By Leigh Anne Williams

Time magazine writer Lev Grossman goes in search of the literary voice of America's younger generation and comes up emptyhanded. Sure, he says, there's a long list of promising 40-and-under novelists, from Jhumpa Lahiri to ... Read More »

July 6, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Book to film

By Leigh Anne Williams

In this image-obsessed age, promoting books with moving pictures is a tricky but intriguing idea, and as the CBC Arts website reminds us, a couple of Canadian players are leading the way. CBC writer Andre ... Read More »

July 4, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

CBC Radio buys a vowel

By Leigh Anne Williams

Fans of Q&Q's Finer Points column may want to check out a new CBC Radio summer program, And Sometimes Y. The half-hour show, which premiered last night and runs over the next two months, is ... Read More »

June 27, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Fight of the month: author vs. indie

By Leigh Anne Williams

Blogville is buzzing (well, OK, gently humming) with a scrap between a U.S. thriller writer and an unidentified independent bookseller located somewhere in the American Midwest -- a scrap that touches on chains vs. indies, ... Read More »

June 27, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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