Author David Eddie, who wrote an advice column for the now-defunct Toro magazine, is doing something similar for The Globe and Mail's ... Read More »
May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
Talk about reader interactivity. Biblioasis will publish John Metcalf's latest memoir, Shut Up He Explained, this fall. And a reader of the Windsor publisher's blog has designed the book's cover. It all began when Biblioasis ... Read More »
May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
This year's National Business Book Award, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and BMO Financial Group, went to Thomas Homer-Dixon's The Upside of Down at a ceremony in Toronto on May 14. (Photos courtesy of National Business Book ... Read More »
May 25, 2007 | Filed under: Events
On Tuesday, May 15, HarperCollins Canada launched Richard Flanagan's The Unknown Terrorist. (Photos courtesy of HarperCollins Canada) Flanagan is interviewed by Russell Smith, who is either deep in thought or getting very sleepy. A pole ... Read More »
May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Events
A bit of New York literary history ended yesterday, the New York Times reports, as the inventory of Gotham Book Mart in midtown Manhattan was sold off to the highest bidder. The bookstore had served ... Read More »
May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news
Key Porter Books launched Chantel Simmons' novel Stuck in Downward Dog with martinis and cupcakes at Kultura in Toronto. (Photos courtesy of Meisner Publicity) Author Chantel Simmons (in a frothy confection) launches her novel with ... Read More »
May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Events
For the first time, the Forest of Reading. (Photos courtesy of International Readings at Harbourfront) Sean Cassidy leads an illustration workshop. They came in buses and buses and buses. The kids try out reading in ... Read More »
May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Events
Raw Story reports that two bills are in the works in the U.S. to honour Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring – one to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth and one to name ... Read More »
May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Authors
Joanne Proulx launched her novel Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet (Penguin Canada) with a This Is Not a Reading Series event at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel on May 15. And she had a little help from ... Read More »
May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Events
On May 16, Key Porter Books launched Vanessa Craft's novel Out of Character - about a woman who takes a job at a "gentleman's club" in London, England - with an event at 65 Degrees ... Read More »
May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Events
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