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Young novelists just got younger

The U.K. literary journal Granta has compiled a new list of 20 "best young American novelists," whose work will be featured in the next issue. Granta's done this with British writers multiple times, and once ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Sympathy for the pedophile

By Leigh Anne Williams

When the third question in an author interview is "Are you suggesting that having sexual feelings for little girls is normal?" you know the writer's new book isn't your typical CanLit meditation on memory and ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Jane Austen more popular than Jesus in Britain

By Nathan Whitlock

The BBC reports that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice topped a survey of more than 2,000 British book lovers as the book they just couldn't live without, besting The Bible, which was sixth from the ... Read More »

March 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Event photos: Spreading the gospel at Glory Land launch

By Q&Q Staff

On Feb. 22, Thomas Allen Publishers teamed up with Heritage Toronto to launch Karolyn Smardz Frost's I've Got a Home in Glory Land with a special event at St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto. Karolyn Smardz ... Read More »

March 2, 2007 | Filed under: Events

ReganBooks gone, but catalogue lives on

By Leigh Anne Williams

Parent company HarperCollins may have shut down ReganBooks late last year, but the defunct imprint has issued a ghostly transmission in the form of its summer 2007 catalogue, which hit the Q&Q home office this ... Read More »

March 1, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Free to read, you and me (2007)*

By Leigh Anne Williams

There are still a couple of days left in Freedom to Read Week, which we should probably mark now more than ever, what with an Ontario school getting worked up about Snow Falling on Cedars ... Read More »

March 1, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Couldn't get a ticket, it was a sold-out show

By Leigh Anne Williams

Author Kenneth J. Harvey is known for sending out regular e-mail updates about his career to an ever-growing list of people. (In fact, he's written about it for Q&Q.) But after years of building up ... Read More »

March 1, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Foot in mouth disease

By Alison Jones

A post from The American Prospect reports on a verbal blunder made by one of the New York Times Book Review’s editors, Barry Gewen, at a lecture he gave recently. Gewen, who was introduced by ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Words from Guantanamo Bay

By Alison Jones

As reported in the Guardian, a collection of poems written by detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be published this August by the University of Iowa Press. Lawyer Marc Falkoff, who represents 17 people at the ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Black's legal and linguistic battles

By Nathan Whitlock

Conrad Black has followed through on a promise to file "the mother of all libel statements of claim" against Tom Bower, author of Conrad & Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge, The Globe and Mail ... Read More »

February 23, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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Young novelists just got younger

Sympathy for the pedophile

Jane Austen more popular than Jesus in Britain

Event photos: Spreading the gospel at Glory Land launch

ReganBooks gone, but catalogue lives on

Free to read, you and me (2007)*

Couldn't get a ticket, it was a sold-out show

Foot in mouth disease

Words from Guantanamo Bay

Black's legal and linguistic battles

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