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Academic librarians experience small salary bump in 2010-2011

Academic librarians in Canada enjoyed a small salary increase from 2010“2011, according to a recent industry study. The Association of Research Libraries released its annual salary review on Tuesday. The report finds the median salary ... Read More »

December 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

By Steven W. Beattie

Critic, gadfly, supporter of the Iraq war, misogynist, atheist. Christopher Hitchens was all these things. He was also one of the most erudite and plain-spoken writers of his day, possessed of intelligence, wit, and interests ... Read More »

December 16, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Fall preview 2011: Canadian fiction

By Steven W. Beattie

In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the fall season's biggest books. NOVELS One of the most anticipated releases of the fall season is surely the new novel from internationally acclaimed author Michael Ondaatje, ... Read More »

August 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Preview

Canadian literary event round-up: June 3-9

By Jason Spencer

Here are just a few of the literary events happening across the country in the coming week: Canadian Women in Afghanistan presents Fawzia Koofi reading from her memoir Letter to My Daughters, John Dutton Theatre, ... Read More »

June 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Book links round-up: Slave Lake book auction, fiction for men, and more

By Sue Carter

Today's Slave Lake daily book auction features a signed copy of Angie Abdou's The Bone Cage Plan your summer reading with Joyland's list of 250 books by women all men should read U.K. plans its ... Read More »

May 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Toronto Women’s Bookstore anthology seeks contributors

By Natalie Samson

Hot on the heels of its change in ownership, the Toronto Women's Bookstore is celebrating its 40th anniversary in independent bookselling and feminist activism with an upcoming anthology edited by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk and published by ... Read More »

March 24, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Donoghue, Winter make Orange Prize longlist

By Natalie Samson

A pair of Canadians are among the 20 women on the 16th annual Orange Prize for Fiction longlist. Emma Donoghue (Room) and Kathleen Winter (Annabel) are both in contention for the book award, which recognizes ... Read More »

March 16, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Book biz round-up: International Women’s Day

By Sue Carter

Susanne Antonetta discusses gender and the act of making non-fiction Lucy, post-Narnia: Where are the daring heroines of adult literature? Five romance novels for hard-headed women Do two new editions of Elizabeth Bishop's poems and ... Read More »

March 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

New online writing community geared toward teens

By Steven W. Beattie

Parents and educators spend a lot of time, and spill a lot of ink, debating how to get teenagers interested in reading. Anyone who stops to think about the phenomenal success of Stephenie Meyers' Twilight ... Read More »

December 6, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Two views of Arundhati Roy

By Steven W. Beattie

Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize“winning author of The God of Small Things, has been in the news recently for her outspoken comments about Kashmiri secession from India. Last week, rumours began circulating that the author ... Read More »

November 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: women

Academic librarians experience small salary bump in 2010-2011

Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

Fall preview 2011: Canadian fiction

Canadian literary event round-up: June 3-9

Book links round-up: Slave Lake book auction, fiction for men, and more

Toronto Women’s Bookstore anthology seeks contributors

Donoghue, Winter make Orange Prize longlist

Book biz round-up: International Women’s Day

New online writing community geared toward teens

Two views of Arundhati Roy

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