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Family Literacy Day

This Saturday, Jan. 27 is Family Literacy Day, a national event created by ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation in 1999 to promote the importance of families reading together. According to the official website, the program celebrates ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

Secrets of the Canadian literary cabal

By Alison Jones

Stephen Henighan, known for his biting, if occasionally conspiracy-minded, commentary on the Canadian literary scene, takes aim at the Scotiabank Giller Prize in this column for Geist. Henighan calls the prize a symptom of the ... Read More »

January 23, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Opinion

O.J.: Passive and aggressive

By Alison Jones

In an article from Vanity Fair, James Wolcott reviews O.J. Simpson’s If I Did It after obtaining a copy that avoided being pulped. Wolcott refers to the “confessional” as “a vanishing act in full view,” ... Read More »

January 23, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

He's back: Stevenson returns to Canada

By Leigh Anne Williams

Larry Stevenson is back in Toronto, and Globe and Mail business reporter Gordon Pitts has a Q&A with the Chapters founder. After losing Chapters to Indigo in a hostile takeover, Stevenson reportedly studied at the ... Read More »

January 22, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Supreme Court rules against Vancouver bookstore

By Nathan Whitlock

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the federal government should not be required to provide advance funding to Vancouver’s Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium for its legal battle against Canada Customs, The ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Looking for lovable losers

By Alison Jones

When trying to get published, many writers become familiar with the old adage, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” But if that doesn’t work, maybe they should try The Rejected Fiction Writing ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Friday photo: Vincent Lam

By Q&Q Staff

This week's photo is courtesy of Ottawa photographer John W. MacDonald. On Wednesday, Vincent Lam read from his Giller Prize-winning Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures and packed 200 people into a standing-room only space at the ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Just say no to publicly funded marketing: Bachmann

By Leigh Anne Williams

Prominent indie bookseller Richard Bachmann has spoken out about the More Canada initiative, in which several Canadian publishers are seeking funding to subsidize display placement for their titles in Indigo and indie bookstores. In a ... Read More »

January 18, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling, Opinion

The end of ReganBooks

By Leigh Anne Williams

The big news south of the border is that with Judith Regan gone, HarperCollins is sweeping out the corners – cancelling that controversial Mickey Mantle bio, shutting down the L.A. ReganBooks office, and renaming the ... Read More »

January 18, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The literary journal co-founder who came in from the cold

By Leigh Anne Williams

The New York Times reports on a new documentary about Harold L. Humes, a novelist who co-founded The Paris Review and who wrote two admired novels in the 1950s before he "succumbed to a mental ... Read More »

January 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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Family Literacy Day

Secrets of the Canadian literary cabal

O.J.: Passive and aggressive

He's back: Stevenson returns to Canada

Supreme Court rules against Vancouver bookstore

Looking for lovable losers

Friday photo: Vincent Lam

Just say no to publicly funded marketing: Bachmann

The end of ReganBooks

The literary journal co-founder who came in from the cold

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