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Once more, with feeling

Our BookExpo Canada preview, from the June issue of Q&Q. Tentative optimism seems to be the general mood going into BookExpo Canada this year. After some exhibitor grumbling last year about high costs and low ... Read More »

May 1, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Battle of the bestselling wizards

By Nathan Whitlock

Harry Potter may be approaching his grand finale but he may still have something to learn from an older master of magic. According to The Guardian: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has, for the ... Read More »

April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Trading cards for the literary mind

By Alison Jones

Want to have a little fun with theory? A website run by David Gauntlett, a professor at the University of Westminster, introduces theories and theorists in a more approachable manner via trading cards. Students and ... Read More »

March 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Flickr event roundup

By Q&Q Staff

Photographers from across the country who contribute to our Quill & Quire Flickr Pool have been busy! Photographer Frances-Anne Solomon captures Caribbean-Canadian author Rachel Manley (third from left) surrounded by fans at the Toronto launch ... Read More »

March 13, 2007 | Filed under: Events

The text, the whole text, and nothing but the text?

By Nathan Whitlock

Readers who have, in the course of literature studies or even inadvertently in a conversation over too much coffee or red wine in a café, stumbled into the thorny question of "literary criticism – what ... Read More »

March 9, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Professors Rushdie and Amis

By Leigh Anne Williams

Nearly everyone has a bad Valentine's Day story – and there are undoubtedly a few more out there after yesterday – but few can top Salman Rushdie's. The Ayatollah Khomeini's murderous fatwa against the author ... Read More »

February 15, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Put down the scissors

By Alison Jones

In a post on The Guardian's book blogs, Kathryn Hughes discusses the publication of compact versions of classic novels. Hughes supports the idea of cutting out the “ambling byways, baffling dead-ends and sudden jumps of ... Read More »

February 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

The advent of WikiLit

By Leigh Anne Williams

The ghost of Roland Barthes must be happy these days, as we move just a little closer to his wished-for "death of the author." As The Guardian reports, publisher Penguin is teaming up with De ... Read More »

February 1, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

From Russia with love

By Q&Q Staff

Representatives from the Canadian publishing industry conducted a trade mission to Russia at the end of November, doing panel discussions about Canadian literature and attending book fairs in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Canadian panel ... Read More »

December 8, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Take that, Cubans exiles!

By Cassandra Drudi

Miami schoolchildren can get their dose of Cuba after all, the L.A. Times reported today, as "a federal judge Monday ordered the Miami-Dade County School District to restore a children's book about Cuba to school ... Read More »

July 25, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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