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Back to the '70s with Teresa Toten

YA author Teresa Toten launched her latest novel, Better Than Blonde (Penguin Canada), at a Toronto restaurant on May 7. The book is set in the 1970s, so launchgoers were encouraged to dress up as ... Read More »

May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Bringing Popeye back

By Leigh Anne Williams

Comic-book publishers have always been archivally minded, but they're getting more and more so lately. Capitalizing on the buzz around graphic novels and cartooning, some houses are putting together lovingly packaged multi-volume collections of yesteryear's ... Read More »

May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Zach Wells and others take on Survival

By Leigh Anne Williams

Two years ago in Vancouver, five Canadian poets got together for a panel discussion on the state of the art, and tried to hash out whether Margaret Atwood's seminal CanLit study Survival has energized or ... Read More »

May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

James Patterson to close Toronto readers' festival

By Nathan Whitlock

BOOKED!, the readers' festival created to accompany BookExpo Canada, has confirmed (as previously reported by Q&Q Omni) that bestselling thriller author James Patterson will be the star of a finale event to close the festival ... Read More »

May 16, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Telling the Canada Council where to go … next

By Nathan Whitlock

Turning 50 is often the catalyst for reflection, re-examination, and the occasional mid-life crisis. Quillblog hopes the Canada Council for the Arts is nowhere near its mid-life point, but in its 50th anniversary year, the ... Read More »

May 16, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

The friends of Gary Hyland

By Q&Q Staff

Hagios Press launched Gary Hyland's new poetry collection Hands Reaching in Water at the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre on May 3. More than 150 people attended and the Oak & Rose Book Shoppe sold more ... Read More »

May 11, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Claire Cameron launches The Line Painter

By Q&Q Staff

Claire Cameron launched her first novel, The Line Painter (HarperCollins Canada), at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel on April 26. (Photos courtesy of HarperCollins Canada) Cameron with HarperCollins Canada marketing manager Lindsey Lowy ... ... and with ... Read More »

May 11, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Flickr photo roundup: Language Acts, Ottawa Fest, and Rosemary Shipton

By Q&Q Staff

Contributors to our Q&Q Flickr photo group have been busy on the book beat in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. Poet Carmine Starnino posted some pics, including the one above, from the April 27 launch of ... Read More »

May 10, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Keep on working (and writing)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The publication of a couple of office-set novels, Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End and Jenny Turner's The Brainstorm, has writer DJ Taylor wondering (in The Independent) why there aren't more novels about ... Read More »

May 10, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Surf's up for Susan Casey (and her collaborator)

By Leigh Anne Williams

Toronto-raised author Susan Casey, who now lives in New York City, has signed a million-dollar deal for a new book about the science of surfing and the quest of top surfers to master ever-bigger waves. ... Read More »

May 10, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

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Back to the '70s with Teresa Toten

Bringing Popeye back

Zach Wells and others take on Survival

James Patterson to close Toronto readers' festival

Telling the Canada Council where to go … next

The friends of Gary Hyland

Claire Cameron launches The Line Painter

Flickr photo roundup: Language Acts, Ottawa Fest, and Rosemary Shipton

Keep on working (and writing)

Surf's up for Susan Casey (and her collaborator)

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