Quillblog

Oh Sheila — Ticknor is ready for the world

The release of Sheila Heti's debut novel, Ticknor -- following a highly visible short-story collection, The Middle Stories, in 2000 -- has kicked off a round of profiles. CBC Arts plays up House of Anansi ... Read More »

March 28, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Remembering an early CanLit booster

By Leigh Anne Williams

Literature professor Gordon Roper, who died last month at the age of 93, is remembered in a Toronto Star obituary. A Peterborough native, Roper taught at the University of Chicago and then at U of ... Read More »

March 28, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The trouble with Imprint

By Leigh Anne Williams

The cancellation of Imprint continues to generate online commentary. The latest is a piece on the Dooney's Cafe website by Gordon Lockheed. He's suspicious of TVO's stated rationale for axing Imprint, but like some other ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

The trouble with contests

By Leigh Anne Williams

The unsound ethics of poetry contests is a hot topic in the U.S. these days -- one that Canadian poet and essayist Zach Wells has now tackled on the Bookninja.com site. Wells is not so ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Industry news, Opinion

This business of show

By Leigh Anne Williams

Online commentator Alex Good ponders the death of Imprint in a comment piece on his website, Good Reports. Good does mourn the show's passing, but also throws out some reasons why books and television simply ... Read More »

March 17, 2005 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Creative writing at UBC: an appreciation

By Leigh Anne Williams

CBC Arts looks back at the University of British Columbia's creative writing program on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. There is, of course, a strong emphasis on the commercial glory days of the late ... Read More »

March 17, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Jessica Warner gets a British rave

By Leigh Anne Williams

Jessica Warner's The Incendiary, a look at a would-be terrorist in 1770s Britain, comes in for a glowing review in the U.K.'s The Guardian. Reviewer Ian Pindar writes that "Somehow Warner has turned this utterly ... Read More »

March 7, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Holdstock takes America

By Leigh Anne Williams

Another Canadian-authored book with a retooled foreign title got some notice this weekend. Pauline Holdstock's Giller-nominated novel Beyond Measure (Cormorant Books) was featured in the New York Times Book Review, where reviewer Suzy Hansen argues ... Read More »

March 7, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

New York state of mind

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Toronto Star checks in on McNally Robinson New York, and finds that manager Sarah McNally is displaying such books as Annabel Lyon's The Best Thing for You and Richard B. Wright's Clara Callan, and ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

And the best novel of 2004 is…

By Leigh Anne Williams

Three weeks, 16 books, and 15 judges later, the Morning News' Tournament of Books -- the U.S. website's month-long playoff-style competition between 2004 novels -- has picked a winner. And it's none other than David ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Prev 698 699700701 702....708 709 Next

Quill and Quire

Oh Sheila — Ticknor is ready for the world

Remembering an early CanLit booster

The trouble with Imprint

The trouble with contests

This business of show

Creative writing at UBC: an appreciation

Jessica Warner gets a British rave

Holdstock takes America

New York state of mind

And the best novel of 2004 is…

Job Board