Last week, Don McKay's The Shell of the Tortoise (Gaspereau Press) became the first ever essay collection to win the $10,000 BMO Winterset Award. On March 22, the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council presented the ... Read More »
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Is Mad Men the most literary show on TV? The Globe and Mail's John Doyle thinks it replaces the novel in terms of cultural significance Harry Potter ebooks now available in Canada for the Sony ... Read More »
March 27, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
The Hunger Games film predicted to net older audiences, thanks to the YA book's popularity with adults Mike Daisey's 15 minutes of notoriety are not translating into book sales British poet Ruth Padel on how ... Read More »
March 22, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
National Geographic enters the digital shorts market Scientists examine Henry David Thoreau's journals to track climate change Will the success of Fifty Shades of Grey "spawn a wave of repurposed fan-fiction erotica? IPG client sales ... Read More »
March 16, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
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
Just in time for March Break, this week's bestsellers list, which looks at Canadian children's books, illustrates that readers will love Robert Munsch forever. For the two weeks ending March 4: 1. Love You Forever, ... Read More »
March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Bestsellers
The West Coast Book Prize Society has announced the shortlists for the 28th annual B.C. Book Prizes, and for Esi Edugyan, the competition cuts close to home. Edugyan, whose novel Half-Blood Blues won the 2011 ... Read More »
March 8, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
Esi Edugyan In honour of International Women's Day, the Orange Prize for Fiction, celebrating "excellence, originality, and accessibility in women's writing," has announced its 2012 longlist, which includes two celebrated Canadian authors. Emma Donoghue, whose ... Read More »
March 8, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
The CBC is reporting that arson investigators are looking into a suspicious fire that damaged the East Vancouver offices of New Star Books. Sprinklers in the building contained the flames but the business suffered extensive ... Read More »
March 7, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Cybèle Young may have seemed like an overnight kidlit success when her most recent picture book, Ten Birds (Kids Can Press), won a Governor General's Literary Award last fall, but the Toronto-based artist actually began ... Read More »
March 6, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
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