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Ray Robertson on baiting the Giller

Writing in the National Post books blog, novelist Ray Robertson says that while Alice Munro may have to forcibly remove her work from Scotiabank Giller Prize consideration, he doesn't even bother with the formality “ ... Read More »

October 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Farewell to “punk rock poet” Jim Carroll and mystery writer Lyn Hamilton

By Alison Potstra

Canadian mystery writer Lyn Hamilton passed away last Thursday at the age of 65. The Toronto-based writer, who was known for Chinese Alchemist, The Xibalba Murders and her globe-trotting heroine Lara McClintoch, died of cancer. According ... Read More »

September 15, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Libraries

Bookmarks: Simon & Schuster’s bad year, Book Oven launches, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Simon & Schuster's operating profits decline by 58% for the year Gil Adamson featured in the Guardian Book Oven, a collaborative literary community run by BookCamp Toronto's Hugh McGuire, ... Read More »

August 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: McNally Robinson makes people mad, Ray Bradbury raises money, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book related links: Some Calgarians are still angry at McNally Robinson for leaving. Slate's Fred Kaplan explains why he wrote a whole book about the year 1959. A sneak peek at Edith Wharton's lost ... Read More »

June 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Can a commercial printer invoke religion in order to refuse services?

By Suzanne Gardner

A blog post on Torontoist yesterday looked at Toronto printer Harmony Printing, and its refusal to produce author Adam Bourret's autobiographical graphic novel I'm Crazy, a story that deals with "histories, secrets, obsessive compulsive disorder, ... Read More »

May 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Deals

New tax credits for publishers in Ontario budget

By Scott MacDonald

For people in the book biz, the big news out of yesterday's Ontario budget announcement was that books are exempt from the new harmonized sales tax. There were also, however, a few tweaks worth noting ... Read More »

March 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The unstoppable Book of Negroes

By Scott MacDonald

At this point, you gotta wonder: has anyone in Canada not read Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes? Released by HarperCollins Canada more than two years ago, the book has grown from a solid word-of-mouth ... Read More »

February 13, 2009 | Filed under: Awards

Bookmarks: Economic downturn edition

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Canada's Sun Media is cutting 600 jobs in Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada -- about 10 percent of the workforce (CBCnews.ca) Amazon U.K. employees are being forced to work seven days a week; they are given ... Read More »

December 16, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Montgomery’s “suicide” questioned

By Scott MacDonald

Last Saturday, a descendant of Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery revealed, for the first time, that her grandmother committed suicide. In the wake of this revelation, however, Montgomery's biographer is publicly questioning ... Read More »

September 24, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Bookmarks: critic saves Nabokov novel, senator saves writer’s home, but nothing could save Duddy Kravitz musical

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Did a Slate critic help save Nabokov's last novel from the flames? (Slate) Ontario senator helps save Joy Kogawa's childhood home (CBC.ca) Duddy Kravitz: The Musical was doomed from the start “ ... Read More »

April 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

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Search Results by tag: Ontario

Ray Robertson on baiting the Giller

Farewell to “punk rock poet” Jim Carroll and mystery writer Lyn Hamilton

Bookmarks: Simon & Schuster’s bad year, Book Oven launches, and more

Bookmarks: McNally Robinson makes people mad, Ray Bradbury raises money, and more

Can a commercial printer invoke religion in order to refuse services?

New tax credits for publishers in Ontario budget

The unstoppable Book of Negroes

Bookmarks: Economic downturn edition

Montgomery’s “suicide” questioned

Bookmarks: critic saves Nabokov novel, senator saves writer’s home, but nothing could save Duddy Kravitz musical

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