Vancouver will play host to a new festival celebrating Canadian comics and graphic novels. The Vancouver Comic Arts Festival has been in the works for about a year, and last week organizers announced the event ... Read More »
The very long list of nominees for the 2011 ReLit Awards, which celebrates novels, poetry, and short fiction titles published by Canadian independent presses, has been announced. ECW Press leads this year's longlist with nine ... Read More »
August 8, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
It's a conspiracy theory worthy of Dan Brown, or perhaps early-career John le Carré. When the French Nobel laureate Albert Camus died in a car crash in 1960, everyone assumed it was an accident. Now, ... Read More »
August 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library offers copies of Slaughterhouse-Five to students of Missouri school that pulled the book Finally you'll be able to swim while reading: the world's first waterproof book arrives next summer Nicholas Baker explains ... Read More »
August 5, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
HarperCollins Canada announced Thursday that they will be publishing iconic American writer Richard Ford's new novel, Canada, next May. The novel follows young Dell Parsons as devastating circumstances force him to leave Montana and seek refuge ... Read More »
August 5, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Kelly Hughes, owner of Aqua Books in Winnipeg, has set up an award in honour of late crime writer (and Winnipeg native) Michael Van Rooy. According to the Winnipeg Review, Hughes is sponsoring the Michael ... Read More »
August 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Bret Easton Ellis and Paul Schrader collaborate on new killer shark movie, Bait New comic series Unite and Takeover inspired by the music of the Smiths Joseph Heller's Catch-22 turns 50 this October A letter ... Read More »
August 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Cuisine Canada and the University of Guelph released the shortlists for this year's Canadian Culinary Book Awards on Wednesday. Vancouver's Whitecap Books leads the list of nominees with five titles in the running, including 3 ... Read More »
August 3, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
The Writers' Trust of Canada, in collaboration with Samara, has named Ezra Levant's Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights (McClelland & Stewart, 2009) the Best Canadian Political Book ... Read More »
August 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
This year, the Scotiabank Giller Prize is moving from CTV, its official broadcast partner for the past five years, to CBC. In conjunction with the move, the CBC has announced a new Readers' Choice contest, ... Read More »
August 2, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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