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Engel’s Benny Cooperman gets a new look

Author Howard Engel's novels starring private investigator Benny Cooperman have been given an updated look and will be revisiting bookstore shelves, Robert Fulford reports in the National Post. Penguin has re-launched the first 11 Cooperman ... Read More »

May 13, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

French erotica … at the library

By Nathan Whitlock

From The Canadian Press: Ribald and X-rated, a new exhibit at France's national library is banned to anyone under 16. The exhibit that opened this week offers a peek at France's long-secret library of libido, ... Read More »

December 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Giller speculation

By Stuart Woods

It's safe to say that last year's Giller Prize-winner, Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, caught some pundits off-guard. (Ahem.) This year, the peanut gallery has kept curiously mum on who will take home the ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Harper appoints new Heritage minister

By Nathan Whitlock

Yesterday's cabinet shuffle in Stephen Harper's government included moving Josee Verner into Bev Oda's position as minister of Canadian Heritage. Verner, who was first elected in the Quebec City riding of Louis-Saint-Laurent in 2006, was ... Read More »

August 15, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Write it slant and bend it like Beckham

By Leigh Anne Williams

Quillblog would like to congratulate the Toronto Star's Cathal Kelly for possibly being the first sportswriter ever to work an Oulipo reference into a soccer-game recap. Covering the Toronto club's game against the L.A. Galaxy ... Read More »

August 8, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Justin Trudeau to host the Giller gala

By Nathan Whitlock

CTV announced yesterday that Justin Trudeau would host this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize awards night. "I've always been a fan of Canadian literature," declared Trudeau. "I think it's important that we celebrate and highlight the ... Read More »

October 27, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Scout's honour

By Leigh Anne Williams

With the London Book Fair imminent, the Telegraph site has recruited a literary scout, Anne Louise Fisher, to write about what the fair is like for her and her colleagues. "Our greatest fear is that ... Read More »

March 1, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Win an award. Sell some books?

By Scott MacDonald

We all know that Gillers and Governor General's Awards are boons for book sales in Canada. A book gets shortlisted, and its sales go up. A book wins, and its sales go up even further. ... Read More »

November 8, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Bookselling

Greasing the hype machine

By Scott MacDonald

A hot topic of conversation in the online literary community is the commercial success of The Traveler, an ambiguously fictional first novel written by the strangely pseudonymed John Twelve Hawks. Climbing the New York Times ... Read More »

September 12, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Like an American lecturing the French on sauces

By Leigh Anne Williams

Lynne Truss, the English author who passed through Toronto a few weeks back, has earned a great deal of attention for her quirky cri de coeur on punctuation, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book's massive ... Read More »

June 21, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: French

Engel’s Benny Cooperman gets a new look

French erotica … at the library

Giller speculation

Harper appoints new Heritage minister

Write it slant and bend it like Beckham

Justin Trudeau to host the Giller gala

Scout's honour

Win an award. Sell some books?

Greasing the hype machine

Like an American lecturing the French on sauces

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