Search Results by tag: Globe and Mail

Giller speculation

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

Hope for school libraries (in Ontario, anyway)

By Leigh Anne Williams

Heather Reisman can take a bow today. The Indigo CEO appears to have shamed Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty into promising a major funding boost for the province's cash-starved school library system. As The Globe and ... Read More »

September 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks – Poe mystery solved, and more

By Leigh Anne Williams

You know that mysterious figure who visited Edgar Allan Poe's grave every year? Nevermore. And it turns out it was all a publicity stunt cooked up by the guy "who led the fight to preserve ... Read More »

August 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book links

Harry Potter and the Event Rules and Regulations

By Leigh Anne Williams

With the release of the final Harry Potter novel mere days away, the media frenzy is in full force. In The Globe and Mail on the weekend, publishing reporter James Adams looks at Canadian Potter ... Read More »

July 16, 2007 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

Dion promises to restore public diplomacy funding

By Nathan Whitlock

Liberal party leader Stephane Dion met with a few Canadian writers last week at the Drake Hotel in Toronto and promised that a Liberal government would restore the $11.8-million in public diplomacy funding cut from ... Read More »

July 11, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Sex etiquette for publishers

By Leigh Anne Williams

Author David Eddie, who wrote an advice column for the now-defunct Toro magazine, is doing something similar for The Globe and Mail's ... Read More »

May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

James Patterson to close Toronto readers' festival

By Nathan Whitlock

BOOKED!, the readers' festival created to accompany BookExpo Canada, has confirmed (as previously reported by Q&Q Omni) that bestselling thriller author James Patterson will be the star of a finale event to close the festival ... Read More »

May 16, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

U.S. Army desperately seeking Key

By Nathan Whitlock

The Globe and Mail reports that the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Command has been trying to find and question Joshua Key, a deserter who took refuge in Canada and recently published an account of his ... Read More »

March 23, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Bethune on Roberts

By Leigh Anne Williams

Maclean's books columnist Brian Bethune has posted a blog entry on the Paul William Roberts plagiarism controversy. (Quick recap: a few passages in Roberts' book A War Against Truth were found to have been lifted ... Read More »

February 8, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The view from the edge of retirement

By Leigh Anne Williams

The allegedly press-shy Alice Munro was the subject of long features in the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail this week, and in the former she turns over another card in the ongoing media ... Read More »

November 2, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Prev 4 567 8 Next

Quill and Quire

Search Results by tag: Globe and Mail

Giller speculation

Hope for school libraries (in Ontario, anyway)

Bookmarks – Poe mystery solved, and more

Harry Potter and the Event Rules and Regulations

Dion promises to restore public diplomacy funding

Sex etiquette for publishers

James Patterson to close Toronto readers' festival

U.S. Army desperately seeking Key

Bethune on Roberts

The view from the edge of retirement

Job Board