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Gore Vidal threatens to sue playwright

American author Gore Vidal is threatening to sue playwright Edmund White over a play that debuted last month in London, the National Post reports. The play, Terre Haute, is a fictional presentation of a relationship ... Read More »

June 6, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Simon & Schuster Canada takes Manhattan

By Q&Q Staff

Simon & Schuster Canada hosted a party at the McNally Robinson bookstore in Manhattan. S&S director of marketing Felicia Quon glams up the room. Bookstore owner Sarah McNally chats with Nick Pashley and his wife ... Read More »

June 6, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Scenes from the BEA show floor

By Q&Q Staff

Canadian sightings at the BEA trade show at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York. Thomas Allen publisher Patrick Crean and Transatlantic Literary Agency agent Samantha Haywood turned out to see the signing of ... Read More »

June 6, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Diary of another young girl

By Nathan Whitlock

The diary of a teenage Jewish girl written in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943 has been authenticated and published in Hebrew and English by Israel's Holocaust museum as Rutka's Notebook, The Guardian reports. Rutka Laskier was ... Read More »

June 6, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Launch of The First Man in My Life

By Q&Q Staff

The launch of The First Man in My Life: Daughters Write About Their Fathers (Penguin Canada) took place on May 24 at Provost's Lodge in Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Many of the ... Read More »

June 4, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Eckler vs. Hollywood

By Leigh Anne Williams

The hit Hollywood comedy Knocked Up opened this past weekend to rave reviews and big box office. The movie is about a couple dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, and whatever the film's strengths, no one ... Read More »

June 4, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Catching the Callaghan train

By Q&Q Staff

McArthur & Company launched Barry Callaghan's new short-story collection, Between Trains, at the Turf Club in Toronto in late May. (Photos courtesy of Michael Callaghan) McArthur president Kim McArthur introduces her author. Callaghan is both ... Read More »

May 31, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Show fever becomes Web fever

By Leigh Anne Williams

As BookExpo America kicks off in New York City, the L.A. Times has a brief writeup on the U.S.'s annual convention and trade show. And it seems that publishers are going in with Web 2.0 ... Read More »

May 31, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Robertson Davies gets own park

By Leigh Anne Williams

CanLit superstar Robertson Davies, who died in 1995, had a Toronto park officially named after him this week, The Globe and Mail reports. Robertson Davies Park is located on Avenue Road, not far from the ... Read More »

May 31, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The Silver Palate Cookbook's silver anniversary

By Q&Q Staff

Book launches are rarely about the food. However, at the May 29 launch party for the new 25th anniversary edition of the much-loved The Silver Palate Cookbook (Workman Publishing/Thomas Allen & Son) at Toronto's Bistro ... Read More »

May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Events

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Gore Vidal threatens to sue playwright

Simon & Schuster Canada takes Manhattan

Scenes from the BEA show floor

Diary of another young girl

Launch of The First Man in My Life

Eckler vs. Hollywood

Catching the Callaghan train

Show fever becomes Web fever

Robertson Davies gets own park

The Silver Palate Cookbook's silver anniversary

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