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Seth, Chester Brown hit the big time

Drawn & Quarterly has already issued a press release calling it "perhaps the most seminal piece of journalism ever devoted to graphic novels." It's a cover story in the most recent New York Times Magazine ... Read More »

July 12, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Will the new Heritage minister please stand up?

By Leigh Anne Williams

Watch for Liza Frulla or Sarmite (Sam) Bulte to take the Canadian Heritage portfolio when Paul Martin announces his new cabinet within the next couple of weeks. That's the prediction made in this Globe and ... Read More »

July 12, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

U.K. attention for posthumous Shields collection

By Leigh Anne Williams

The late Carol Shields' Collected Stories gets a review in U.K.'s Guardian. Author Hermione Lee observes that "the tendency to celebrate Shields as a benign, tender, mild observer of ordinary, minor lives has not made ... Read More »

July 4, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Like an American lecturing the French on sauces

By Leigh Anne Williams

Lynne Truss, the English author who passed through Toronto a few weeks back, has earned a great deal of attention for her quirky cri de coeur on punctuation, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book's massive ... Read More »

June 21, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Jack McClelland: in other people's books

By Leigh Anne Williams

Here's one of the more curious pieces to appear following Jack McClelland's death last week: on the Bookninja.com site, Dana Cook -- "a Toronto freelance editor, indexer and collector of literary encounters" -- has compiled ... Read More »

June 21, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Remembering Jack

By Leigh Anne Williams

The death of Jack McClelland has of course received a great deal of coverage in Tuesday's major papers. The Toronto Star's publishing reporter, Judy Stoffman, turns in a long survey of his life and career, ... Read More »

June 15, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

More criticism, please

By Leigh Anne Williams

In the new "Summer Reading" issue of The Walrus, former National Post books editor Andy Lamey calls for more harsh criticism in book reviewing land. In doing so, he recounts some frustrations from his Post ... Read More »

June 15, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

A working class hero is something to be

By Leigh Anne Williams

Maisonneuve poetry columnist Zachariah Wells takes a look at some of Canada's blue-collar poetry in his latest online column. Among those surveyed are Peter Trower ("one of our most potent poets still writing"), Peter Richardson, ... Read More »

June 15, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Meet the new winners, same as the old winners

By Leigh Anne Williams

The folks at Bookninja.com have pointed out that the Writers' Union of Canada's press release announcing the winners of this year's Danuta Gleed Literary Award is strikingly similar to last year's press release: same template, ... Read More »

June 7, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The Thatcher years: the golden age of publishing

By Leigh Anne Williams

In The Observer, literary editor Robert McCrum turns in a long reminiscence of the publishing biz in Britain in the 1980s. In 1979, when McCrum begins his career, "there is virtually no money, especially for ... Read More »

May 31, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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