Freedom to Read Week is a month away, but Toronto Public Library trustee Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler got a jump on the festivities today by releasing, on his Twitter feed, the 2010 report from the TPL's Materials ... Read More »
On Family Literacy Day (Jan. 27), Kids Can Press hosted a special breakfast book launch for David J. Smith and Shelagh Armstrong's picture book This Child, Every Child at its new home in the Corus ... Read More »
January 28, 2011 | Filed under: Events
Last week, Quillblog pointed to the controversy surrounding acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan's decision to travel to the Jerusalem Book Fair, where he will be presented with the Jerusalem Award, given biannually to writers whose work ... Read More »
January 27, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
A year after his death, J.D. Salinger is still shunning the spotlight Vladimir Nabokov's theory about a particular species of butterfly gets confirmed by scientists TED, the ongoing lecture series (conference? symposium? smartypantsium?) is starting ... Read More »
January 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
On Monday, someone set off a bomb at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, killing at least 35 people. Within a few hours, editors at Q&Q received an e-mail from a major Canadian publisher, alerting us (and everyone ... Read More »
January 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
There's been a flurry of book award activity over the past few days (take that, Academy Awards). The awards in this roundup range from the time-honoured and prestigious to the trendy and cutting edge. Costa ... Read More »
January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Today marks the last day of the Jaipur Literature Festival, South Asia's largest celebration of the written word. Co-founded six years ago by Scottish writer and historian William Dalrymple and Indian author and publisher Namita ... Read More »
January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Some may recall the minor literary fracas that occurred last fall when Johanna Skibsrud's novel The Sentimentalists won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and publisher Gaspereau Press was temporarily unable to keep up with demand for ... Read More »
January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
At the beginning of 2006, the scandal of the moment in literary circles involved James Frey, accused of fictionalizing details in his memoir, A Million Little Pieces, and subsequently raked over the coals by Oprah ... Read More »
January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Sundry links from around the Web: National Book Critics Circle announces finalists. Franzen, Anne Carson make the cut Kate Pullinger's The Mistress of Nothing reviewed in The New York Times. The verdict? Meh David Staines, ... Read More »
January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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