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Blast from the past, part 1: Atlantic Book Festival

Take a trip down memory lane with these photos from some of the events that made up the Atlantic Book Festival, which ran from April 20 to 29. (Photos by Peggy Walt.) Scott Richardson of ... Read More »

July 6, 2006 | Filed under: Events

The summer reading list — with a twist

By Cassandra Drudi

The summer months seem to be an open invitation for everyone who's ever stuck their nose in a book to offer their summer reading recommendations, lists that are often peppered with questionable choices and sometimes ... Read More »

July 5, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

2006 Libris Awards

By Q&Q Staff

The CBA honours the best of the past year in book publishing. (Photos by Rannie Turingan.) The Libris Awards await their winners. Libris host Bill Richardson has the crowd in his sway. Designer and now ... Read More »

June 11, 2006 | Filed under: Awards, Events

Henighan on the LongPen

By Leigh Anne Williams

Margaret Atwood's LongPen is set to wow crowds at BookExpo America in a couple of weeks, but at least one commentator is unconvinced of its appeal. Author Stephen Henighan attended the failed test signing at ... Read More »

May 4, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

Go, poetry!

By Scott MacDonald

A new website devoted to Canadian poetry has recently been launched. Edited by poets and reviewers Dani Couture and Alex Boyd, who also organizes Toronto's IV lounge reading series, the Northern Poetry Review bills itself ... Read More »

April 25, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

How to make a bookstore window display

By Leigh Anne Williams

Michael Cho is a Toronto cartoonist whose work will have a familiar look to folks who shop at Pages Books & Magazines -- Cho has designed the occasional display for the Queen Street store's main ... Read More »

March 3, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Fairytales of New York

By Leigh Anne Williams

The CBC Arts website has a strong profile of Jay McInerney, whose post-9/11 novel, The Good Life, has been getting much press. The piece is notable for its discussion of the changing character of New ... Read More »

February 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Your name imprint

By Scott MacDonald

Addressing the double-edge of book publishing -- the glut of books published and the need for each book to be distinctive -- Julie Annan recently reported on the Telegraph website that now, more than ever, ... Read More »

February 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

The hell with seasonal books

By Scott MacDonald

So far as Valentine's Day is concerned, there are two kinds of people: those who revel in prepackaged tokens of love and those for whom such tokens elicit the response of retching. Regardless of what ... Read More »

February 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

So emo

By Leigh Anne Williams

There's been a lot of book-biz chatter about the chick-lit genre in the past few years, but in a column on the Book Standard site, Jessa Crispin takes on a male analogue: "the emo boy ... Read More »

January 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: design

Blast from the past, part 1: Atlantic Book Festival

The summer reading list — with a twist

2006 Libris Awards

Henighan on the LongPen

Go, poetry!

How to make a bookstore window display

Fairytales of New York

Your name imprint

The hell with seasonal books

So emo

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