Search Results by tag: Alice Munro

Paris-based lit mag to reprint Alice Munro’s first short story

Her Royal Majesty, a Paris-based literary and arts journal, is celebrating its latest issue on May 11, with simultaneous launch parties in Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Toronto, and Montreal*. Each issue of Her Royal ... Read More »

May 10, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Alice Munro’s out, Annie Proulx in at Toronto’s Luminato Festival

By Sue Carter

Organizers of Luminato, one of Toronto's biggest cultural festivals, have announced that its high-profile event with CanLit icon Alice Munro has been cancelled, due to a "family commitment." Munro, who has not made an appearance ... Read More »

March 27, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Alice Munro leads literary programming at this year’s Luminato

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Luminato, one of Toronto's biggest annual cultural festivals, has announced a rare appearance by Alice Munro, who will be interviewed onstage June 10 by Deborah Treisman, fiction editor for The New Yorker. Running from June ... Read More »

March 14, 2012 | Filed under: Events

In the April 2011 issue of Q&Q: Susan Musgrave talks to Lorna Crozier

By Sue Carter

It's been more than a decade since the iconic “ and iconoclastic “ Susan Musgrave published a new collection of poetry. In the April 2011 issue of Q&Q, Musgrave discusses her new collection, Origami Dove ... Read More »

March 14, 2011 | Filed under: Authors, Opinion

Books of the Year 2010: Fiction and Poetry

By Q&Q Staff

There's no formula for choosing the books of the year. Some break ground, some tackle familiar themes with new energy. Some represent the best work from established authors, some introduce us to important new voices. ... Read More »

November 22, 2010 | Filed under: Books of the Year

When life imitates art

By Alison Potstra

Alice Munro's short story, "Dimensions," which appears in her recent collection Too Much Happiness, is one that the author herself cannot reread. In the story, a blue-collar B.C. father suffocates his three young children with a pillow ... Read More »

November 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

IFOA news: Geoffrey Taylor to receive honorary degree, Urquhart to read Munro

By Alison Potstra

Geoffrey Taylor, director of Harbourfront's Reading Series, is to receive an honorary degree from the School of Creative & Performing Arts at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. Taylor, who has been with ... Read More »

October 27, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Events

Ray Robertson on baiting the Giller

By Stuart Woods

Writing in the National Post books blog, novelist Ray Robertson says that while Alice Munro may have to forcibly remove her work from Scotiabank Giller Prize consideration, he doesn't even bother with the formality “ ... Read More »

October 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Who will win the Nobel?

By Nathan Whitlock

It's not quite the biggest reward that can be given to a writer (that would be inclusion in Oprah's Book Club, or maybe Richard and Judy's), but the Nobel Prize for Literature is nothing to ... Read More »

October 7, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Awards

Jane Campion to adapt Munro’s “Runaway”

By Steven W. Beattie

Academy Award-winning director Jane Campion is in Toronto for the 2009 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, where her new movie, Bright Star, about a love affair between John Keats and the girl next ... Read More »

September 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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