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80 years of Q&Q: historically speaking, CanLit moments through the years

Jack McClelland passes the M&S torch A few years after Jack McClelland (who once said “I am McClelland & Stewart”) sold his beloved M&S to businessman Avie Bennett in 1985, the larger-than-life publisher retired from ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Bookselling, People, Writing life

Last word: Andre Alexis on a matter of style

By Q&Q Staff

The impetus for a new novel sequence arose not out of exile or grief or post-traumatic stress, but out of the pure art of storytelling, writes André Alexis Some 30 years ago, I was watching ... Read More »

March 26, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, People

80 years of Q&Q: talking with author and publisher Linda Leith

By Q&Q Staff

Irish-born Linda Leith has lived in several international cultural capitals, but Montreal became her home and, in many ways, her muse. Leith’s latest book is Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to ... Read More »

March 26, 2015 | Filed under: People

80 years of Q&Q: talking with author and Broken Pencil founder Hal Niedzviecki

By Alison Lang

Broken Pencil, Canada’s only journal of zine culture and independent arts, turns 20 this year. Founder Hal Niedzviecki is now a culture critic and fiction writer who has published 10 books since the magazine’s inception. ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, People

80 years of Q&Q: talking with Kobo president and CCO Michael Tamblyn

By Sue Carter

Twenty years ago, few outside the industry could have predicted that the chaotic culture of technology start-ups would meld with the seasons-driven structure of traditional book publishing and retail. As president and chief content officer ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, People

80 years of Q&Q: talking with Theytus Books editor-in-chief Paul Seesequasis

By Q&Q Staff

Launched in 1981, Theytus Books – Canada’s first indigenous-owned publishing house – has played a pivotal role in developing the country’s canon of aboriginal literature. Theytus editor-in-chief Paul Seesequasis gives some insight into the press. ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, People

80 years of Q&Q: CanLit goes out into the world

By Q&Q Staff

Five Canadian writers recognized with international awards: 1. Margaret Atwood: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts (1981); Los Angeles Times Fiction Award for The Handmaid’s Tale (1986); Government of France’s Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, People

80 years of Q&Q: a look back at Canadian children’s publishing

By Q&Q Staff

Canada gives birth to a kidlit industry Fuelled in part by government grants – but mostly by idealism, nationalism, feminism, youthful optimism, and an urgent sense that children and children’s books mattered – the 1970s ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Children's publishing, People

Last word: Nick Cutter on fear itself

By Q&Q Staff

With the great writers, horror lives somewhere behind the words, like a fire in the root system of a tree, writes Nick Cutter What scares people is individual to them. Sure, there are broad fears: ... Read More »

March 12, 2015 | Filed under: Opinion, People

Artist Julie Morstad on finding inspiration for her illustrations

By Q&Q Staff

It would be safe to say 2014 was a good year for Julie Morstad. How To (Simply Read Books), the Vancouver artist’s 2013 authorial debut, won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and Julia, Child ... Read More »

March 4, 2015 | Filed under: Children's publishing, People

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80 years of Q&Q: historically speaking, CanLit moments through the years

Last word: Andre Alexis on a matter of style

80 years of Q&Q: talking with author and publisher Linda Leith

80 years of Q&Q: talking with author and Broken Pencil founder Hal Niedzviecki

80 years of Q&Q: talking with Kobo president and CCO Michael Tamblyn

80 years of Q&Q: talking with Theytus Books editor-in-chief Paul Seesequasis

80 years of Q&Q: CanLit goes out into the world

80 years of Q&Q: a look back at Canadian children’s publishing

Last word: Nick Cutter on fear itself

Artist Julie Morstad on finding inspiration for her illustrations

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