

National Post columnist Barbara Kay really has it in for novelist Lisa Moore. The one-sided feud began last July, when Kay responded to Post reporter Katherine Laidlaw's "gushy" profile of the two-time Giller Prize nominee, calling Moore's most ... Read More »

Given that the Man Booker shortlist has just been announced, and talk of the Bookers often brings to mind author Salman Rushdie, it'd be interesting to know what he's up to these days. Well, there's ... Read More »
September 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Coach House Books held its annual Wayzgoose get-together on Sep. 3, and the turnout was excellent, as you can see from the pics below (provided by photographer Gary Mo). This year's celebration was extra merry, ... Read More »
September 9, 2009 | Filed under: Events

Sundry links from around the Web: Proof the world is going to hell: rapper 50 Cent writes "motivational philosophy" in a new book sporting an eerily Biblical cover Atwood, Munro, and Coupland, oh my! The ... Read More »
September 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Both Random House of Canada and McClelland & Stewart are discontinuing their rights departments, announcing today that going forward, the majority of subsidiary rights activities for both firms will be handled by The Cooke Agency ... Read More »
September 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The cover star of the September issue of Q&Q is the Haitian-born, Montreal-based author Dany Laferrière, who came to national attention in the 1980s with his first novel, How to Make Love to a Negro ... Read More »
September 4, 2009 | Filed under: Opinion

Authors who wish to opt out of the Google Book Search settlement have until midnight tonight to do so. If you're an author, and you're still undecided about what to do, here's some previous Q&Q ... Read More »
September 4, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

Sundry links from around the Web: Fredric Jameson writes in the London Review of Books that Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood gives him the feeling of "syrupy nausea" “ in a good way ... Read More »
September 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and in the world of book-cover design “ where both budgets and the number of stock images are limited “ a little bit of repetition is inevitable. For ... Read More »
September 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Yet another Toronto indie bookseller has closed, BlogTO reports: On the same day the city's beloved Pages Books and Magazines closed, an indie in the east end made its last sale. Yesterday, fans of TYPE ... Read More »
September 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news