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Robert Weaver remembered

An industry tribute to the late Robert Weaver, who died last Saturday at the age of 87, was held in Toronto's Massey College last night (see photo below). Though it was a small, closed gathering, ... Read More »

January 31, 2008 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

Around the world in a few minutes

By Leigh Anne Williams

Salon has launched "The Literary Guide to the World," a series of writeups about books about specific places, organized in map format. (And it's all a promotional tie-in with the Travel Channel, it seems.)Writes Salon's ... Read More »

June 16, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Speaking American

By Leigh Anne Williams

In his latest Geist column, author Stephen Henighan -- who also teaches at the University of Guelph -- discusses his frustration with having to use an American textbook for his basic-Spanish-language course."I wasn't surprised by ... Read More »

December 1, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

There's such a lot of world to see (and write about)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The CBC Arts website, up and running again after the lockout, checks in on a group of like-minded Vancouver writers who are proponents of travel-themed non-fiction. "The group allows us to hash out these ideas ... Read More »

November 3, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Random Acts of Poetry celebrates its second year

By Scott MacDonald

This week, poets in communities across Canada, Britain, and Ireland will take to the street to read their work to people in hair salons, hockey rinks, gas stations, and other everyday places as part of ... Read More »

October 3, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Greasing the hype machine

By Scott MacDonald

A hot topic of conversation in the online literary community is the commercial success of The Traveler, an ambiguously fictional first novel written by the strangely pseudonymed John Twelve Hawks. Climbing the New York Times ... Read More »

September 12, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

George Bowering unproductive? Never!

By Leigh Anne Williams

It all began with an Ottawa Sun article in which reporter Kathleen Harris appeared to question the work ethic of George Bowering during his two-year term as Canada's parliamentary poet laureate. "Bowering was paid $12,000 ... Read More »

May 1, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Martel's next move

By Leigh Anne Williams

Two years after conquering the Man Booker Prize and the Canadian retail market, Life of Pi author Yann Martel is set to unveil a follow-up. Not fiction, mind you -- Martel has now tried his ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Someone's in the kitchen

By Leigh Anne Williams

If there's not already a PhD thesis on record somewhere about the bourgeois fetishization of gourmet food in contemporary Canadian fiction, there ought to be. It's long been a pet peeve of some of us ... Read More »

July 26, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: travel

Robert Weaver remembered

Around the world in a few minutes

Speaking American

There's such a lot of world to see (and write about)

Random Acts of Poetry celebrates its second year

Greasing the hype machine

George Bowering unproductive? Never!

Martel's next move

Someone's in the kitchen

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