On May 6, author-chef Ted Reader attempted to break the Guinness Record for World's Largest Commercially Available Burger by cooking up this 600-lb behemoth in Toronto's Dundas Square. Given that the previous record was a ... Read More »
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The good folks at Toronto's Flying Dragon Bookshop have put together a strikingly equine display for Under Heaven (Viking Canada), the new novel by Guy Gavriel Kay. As you can see, the display includes not ... Read More »
The display for Kenk: A Graphic Portrait (PopSandbox), written by Richard Poplak and illustrated by Nick Marinkovich, at Type Books on Toronto's Queen Street West (just steps away from the storefront out of which the ... Read More »
May 3, 2010 | Filed under: Bookselling, Events
Canadian YA fantasy writer K.V. Johansen was recently a guest of the 22nd International Book Fair held in Skopje, Macedonia. Over a period of three days, beginning April 12, Johansen launched the Macedonian translation of ... Read More »
April 29, 2010 | Filed under: Events
On April 19, McClelland & Stewart launched four poetry titles at the Dora Keogh pub on Toronto's Danforth Avenue. Above: Paul Vermeersch (left), who was launching The Reinvention of the Human Hand, shows that while ... Read More »
April 23, 2010 | Filed under: Events
On March 4, Ben Errett launched his irreverent memoir Jew and Improved: How Choosing to be Chosen Made Me a Better Man (HarperCollins Canada) at Toronto's Drake Hotel as part of Ben McNally Books' The ... Read More »
March 24, 2010 | Filed under: Events
Patrick Taylor read from his new book, An Irish Country Girl (Tom Doherty/H.B. Fenn and Company), in Toronto on March 10 ... Read More »
March 17, 2010 | Filed under: Events
On March 10, The Writers' Trust of Canada held its Politics and the Pen fundraising dinner at Ottawa's Fairmont Château Laurier. At the event, author John English was presented with the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for ... Read More »
March 17, 2010 | Filed under: Events
On Feb. 4, Ben McNally hosted author, adventurer, and semi-pro kayaker Jon Turk at the Dora Keogh in Toronto's Danforth neighbourhood as part of his series The Fine Print. Turk was there to talk about ... Read More »
The book world is just starting to shake itself awake after the holidays, so here are a couple of photos from events that happened before the break. Avast! Canada's Dada bard has a Santa hat: ... Read More »
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