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Death of God good for books, bad for Hollywood

New York magazine's culture blog points out how Phillip Pullman is distancing himself from his image as a God-despising, atheism-peddling iconoclast in the run-up to the release of Hollywood's mega-budget adaptation of The Golden Compass, ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Giller speculation

By Stuart Woods

It's safe to say that last year's Giller Prize-winner, Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, caught some pundits off-guard. (Ahem.) This year, the peanut gallery has kept curiously mum on who will take home the ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Heard & Overheard: BookFest Windsor 2007 edition

By Leigh Anne Williams

Windsor, Ontario, held its sixth BookFest from Nov. 2-4, bringing together more than 40 authors and speakers, including Lawrence Hill, the University of Windsor's own Alistair MacLeod, Emma Donoghue, Gil Adamson, and more (including this ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Charles Taylor Foundation gives books to America

By Q&Q Staff

The Charles Taylor Prize for the Literay Non-Fiction has donated almost 100 books to Canada's embassy in Washington D.C. The gift was presented at the IFOA in Toronto. Photos courtesy of the Charles Taylor Foundation. ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Have your say re: parity

By Leigh Anne Williams

Like many booksellers, Chris O'Brien, owner of The Miller's Tale in Almonte, Ontario, has been wrestling with the issue of dollar-parity. As O'Brien explains on his store blog, this is the approach he's come up ... Read More »

November 1, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Chef Morimoto's Canadian tour

By Q&Q Staff

Chef Masaharu Morimoto, a Japanese chef who has appeared on The Iron Chef, tours Canada in support of his first cookbook, Morimoto - The New Art of Japanese Cooking. Photos courtesy of Chris Houston. Morimoto ... Read More »

November 1, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Some hard looks at Plimpton

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's been two and a half years since journalist and author Philip Gourevitch took over as editor of The Paris Review, and now The New York Observer's Doree Shafrir sits down with Gourevitch in the ... Read More »

November 1, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

The Scotiabank Giller Light bash

By Nathan Whitlock

CanLit fans and publishing types who are not attending the Scotiabank Giller Prize ceremony will have two other opportunities to get together, eat, drink, and merrily debate which book should win. The Scotiabank Giller Light ... Read More »

October 31, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Trick or treat! Q&Q Job Board's Hallowe'en edition

By Q&Q jobs

Try these jobs on for size: Senior Editor - Viva Dolan Communications and Design Inc. (Toronto, ON) Book Designer - Owlkids (Toronto, ON) Book Editor - Owlkids (Toronto, ON) Sales & Marketing Manager - TumbleBooks ... Read More »

October 31, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Sins of omission

By Nathan Whitlock

One of Slate's features for its fall fiction week is a reprise of a "gravest literary omissions" survey it conducted a few years ago – critics' confessions of the most important books they had never ... Read More »

October 31, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

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