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Write it slant and bend it like Beckham

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

Extra-curricular activities

By Nathan Whitlock

Just in case you missed it over the Christmas break, Toronto Star columnist Joey Slinger points out that Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrote an article for the Star on Dec. 23 about the 100th anniversary ... Read More »

January 5, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Munro: going, going….

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Alice Munro retirement dance continues. The Toronto Star’s Judy Stoffman keeps the story alive with a new piece reminding readers that Munro said back in October that she’s completed four more stories yet to ... Read More »

January 3, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Some love for The Dodecahedron

By Leigh Anne Williams

Paul Glennon's short-story collection The Dodecahedron: Or a Frame for Frames has apparently been given some new currency by its Governor General's Award nomination. Toronto Star columnist Philip Marchand reviewed the book yesterday, more than ... Read More »

November 13, 2006 | Filed under: 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

Rowling's weapon of mass something or other

By Leigh Anne Williams

You can never get enough wacky Harry Potter items, so here's one from Associated Press via the Toronto Star. It seems J.K. Rowling had the manuscript for the next and final Potter novel with her ... Read More »

September 14, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Is CanLit edgy?

By Nathan Whitlock

A story in The Toronto Star asks whether contemporary Canadian literature is or isn't "anti-urban and anti-modern in spirit, and inimical to experimental writers" – like Douglas Coupland, who sparked the debate with an online ... Read More »

August 25, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Industry news, Opinion

The new face of summer magazine fiction

By Leigh Anne Williams

The magazine market for fiction may not be in quite so critical a condition after all. Toronto Life has announced plans to drop its annual Summer Fiction feature, but another city magazine has just kicked ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Used book mogul houses newest store in used castle

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto used book mogul Patrick Hempelmann doesn't do anything halfway -- for his third book emporium, he's installing 200,000 used books in a restored castle, according to a Toronto Star story. The Hungarian Castle (located ... Read More »

June 13, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Internet shanks apostrophes and hyphens

By Cassandra Drudi

An article in today's Toronto Star tolls doom and gloom for the future of punctuation, laying blame at the feet of the Internet and its evil minions of Google, instant messengers, e-mail, text messaging, and ... Read More »

June 7, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: Toronto Star

Write it slant and bend it like Beckham

Extra-curricular activities

Munro: going, going….

Some love for The Dodecahedron

The view from the edge of retirement

Rowling's weapon of mass something or other

Is CanLit edgy?

The new face of summer magazine fiction

Used book mogul houses newest store in used castle

Internet shanks apostrophes and hyphens

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