Search Results by tag: Michael Ondaatje

New in the June Q&Q

Watch for the June 2007 issue of Quill & Quire in stores or in your mailbox imminently. It features a cover profile of Gil Adamson, House of Anansi Press's latest debut novelist, as well as ... Read More »

May 9, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Watch this space for the word on Divisadero

By Leigh Anne Williams

Michael Ondaatje's new novel, Divisadero, is in stores this week. The Q&Q review of the book, written by our new feature ... Read More »

April 20, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Better than Ondaatje?

By Alison Jones

The Independent posted an excerpt of an article originally published in the UK-based Mslexia magazine, in which Danuta Kean discusses the process of bringing great books to the big screen. The article references recent films ... Read More »

April 17, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Vanity Fair comes to town

By Leigh Anne Williams

Vanity Fair's promised survey of the Toronto literary scene has materialized on the magazine's website. VF writer Anderson Tepper hit the International Festival of Authors at Toronto's Harbourfront in October, inspired by an earlier visit ... Read More »

December 12, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

What an award means (if anything)

By Leigh Anne Williams

How reliable are literary awards as an index of quality? Not very, suggests one Toronto blogger, who argues that Kazuo Ishiguro was robbed in the recent Man Booker race (his Never Let Me Go lost ... Read More »

October 20, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

The reviewing agenda

By Leigh Anne Williams

Globe and Mail books editor Martin Levin weighs in on the controversy about the Washington Post review of John Irving's new novel. (To recap: reviewer Marianne Wiggins savaged the book in the Post, but the ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

New York state of mind

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Toronto Star checks in on McNally Robinson New York, and finds that manager Sarah McNally is displaying such books as Annabel Lyon's The Best Thing for You and Richard B. Wright's Clara Callan, and ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

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