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The really real Raymond Carver stories?

There's a battle brewing over a plan by Raymond Carver's widow to publish a book of 17 Carver stories, The New York Times reports. Tess Gallager wants to publish the stories from Carver’s breakout 1981 ... Read More »

October 18, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Governor General's Literary Award shortlist announcement

By Q&Q Staff

Kids Can Press celebrates the nomination of two of its books at the announcement of the finalists for the Governor General's Literary Awards. Kids Can publisher Karen Boersma, author and illustrator Wallace Edwards, president Lisa ... Read More »

October 18, 2007 | Filed under: Events

The bestselling anti-mother

By Nathan Whitlock

France has discovered an unlikely bestseller. Corinne Maier, a psychiatrist and mother of two children aged 13 and 10, has written a book about why she regrets having children and warning other women away from ... Read More »

October 17, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Working for the week

By Q&Q jobs

This week on Q&Q's Job Board: Publicist - Dundurn Group (Toronto, ON) Creative Services Associate - Simon & Schuster Canada (Markham, ON) Junior Designer - Oxford University Press (Don Mills, ON) Customer Relations Manager - ... Read More »

October 17, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Ottawa bookseller offers U.S. price

By Nathan Whitlock

Christopher Smith, co-owner of Collected Works bookstore in Ottawa, says pressure from consumers unhappy with the gap between U.S. and Canadian prices on books has spurred the store to sell dual-priced books for the U.S. ... Read More »

October 17, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Anne Enright's tale of grief wins the Man Booker

By Nathan Whitlock

Irish writer Anne Enright is the surprise winner of this year's Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering, beating out bookie favorites Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach and Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip, The Guardian ... Read More »

October 17, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Awards

Conrad Black, cyborg, vs. Jean Chretien, memoirist

By Stuart Woods

At a book signing in Toronto last night, Conrad Black appeared "relaxed and smiling" from his home in Palm Beach, where Black is spending time ahead of sentencing next month in Chicago. Sitting at the ... Read More »

October 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Ghetto lit goes mainstream

By Stuart Woods

Possibly the most vital – and certainly the most gratuitous – debate in American letters is occurring almost entirely under the radar. The controversy surrounds a body of work referred to variously as ghetto, urban, ... Read More »

October 16, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Brian Mulroney book-signing

By Q&Q Staff

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney signed books at an event hosted by A Different Drummer Books and Bryan Prince, Bookseller, at Burlington's Royal Botanical Gardens. (Photo courtesy of McClelland & Stewart) Former P.M. Brian Mulroney ... Read More »

October 15, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Gaining employ

By Q&Q jobs

This week on Q&Q's Job Board: Editorial Co-ordinator - Between The Lines (Toronto, ON) Book Store Manager - Type Books (Toronto, ON) Sales Position - Berryland Books (Canada) Editorial Assistant - James Lorimer & Co. ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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