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Bookmarks: the best book title of the year, Kim Echlin’s favourite tunes, and more

Sundry links from around the Web: The Los Angeles Times calls Judy Wearing's Edison's Concrete Piano: Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors (published this month by ECW Press) the ... Read More »

November 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Should literary agents be afraid of Amazon?

By Stuart Woods

While Amazon is keeping quiet about the meetings it held last week with top U.S. agents, several commentators have begun to speculate about their significance. Crain's reports that the talks were "freewheeling, frank, and contentious," ... Read More »

November 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Crabtree on the mend

By Scott MacDonald

The St. Catharines, Ontario-based children's house Crabtree Publishing appears to be on the mend after a difficult few years. According to the St. Catharines Standard, the company recently received a $385,640 grant from the federal ... Read More »

November 11, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

Eleven books for Remembrance Day

By Nathan Whitlock

In honour of Remembrance Day, Quillblog has put together a list (in no particular order) of 11 Canadian books that examine the horrors, heroes, and history of war. The Wars by Timothy Findley Three Day ... Read More »

November 11, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The results are in: Q&Q’s Giller pool

By Stuart Woods

Every year before the Scotiabank Giller Prize is handed out, the staff of Q&Q brings its collective wisdom to bear to pick the likely winner “ and for the most part, we get it wrong. ... Read More »

November 11, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: a small town book tour, inappropriate books for kids, and Walt Whitman selling jeans

By Alison Potstra

Bookish links from across the Web: Test your celebrity poet knowledge over at Details and guess which verses have been written by Michael Jackson, Mr. Spock, Jewel, or William Butler Yeats Battle of the sexes, poetry ... Read More »

November 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Barnes & Noble e-books are coming to town

By Alison Potstra

B&N announced yesterday that beginning around Dec. 1, Canadian customers will have access to the U.S. retailer's e-book store and will be able to download titles to their iPhones, BlackBerrys, etc. However, B&N's own e-reader, ... Read More »

November 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

When life imitates art

By Alison Potstra

Alice Munro's short story, "Dimensions," which appears in her recent collection Too Much Happiness, is one that the author herself cannot reread. In the story, a blue-collar B.C. father suffocates his three young children with a pillow ... Read More »

November 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

New Yann Martel novel to drop in April

By Stuart Woods

Yann Martel's highly anticipated follow-up to the Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi will drop in April, well ahead of the original release date in June. According to a press release from Martel's Canadian publisher, ... Read More »

November 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Event photo: Geoffrey Taylor gets schooled

By Nathan Whitlock

As reported earlier on Quillblog, IFOA head Geoffrey Taylor has been awarded an honorary degree from the School of Creative & Performing Arts at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. The ceremony took ... Read More »

November 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events

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Bookmarks: the best book title of the year, Kim Echlin’s favourite tunes, and more

Should literary agents be afraid of Amazon?

Crabtree on the mend

Eleven books for Remembrance Day

The results are in: Q&Q’s Giller pool

Bookmarks: a small town book tour, inappropriate books for kids, and Walt Whitman selling jeans

Barnes & Noble e-books are coming to town

When life imitates art

New Yann Martel novel to drop in April

Event photo: Geoffrey Taylor gets schooled

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