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A sad day in Gotham

A bit of New York literary history ended yesterday, the New York Times reports, as the inventory of Gotham Book Mart in midtown Manhattan was sold off to the highest bidder. The bookstore had served ... Read More »

May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Launch for Chantel Simmons' Stuck in Downward Dog

By Q&Q Staff

Key Porter Books launched Chantel Simmons' novel Stuck in Downward Dog with martinis and cupcakes at Kultura in Toronto. (Photos courtesy of Meisner Publicity) Author Chantel Simmons (in a frothy confection) launches her novel with ... Read More »

May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Kids take over Toronto's Harbourfront

By Q&Q Staff

For the first time, the Forest of Reading. (Photos courtesy of International Readings at Harbourfront) Sean Cassidy leads an illustration workshop. They came in buses and buses and buses. The kids try out reading in ... Read More »

May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Plan to honour Silent Spring author blocked in U.S. senate

By Nathan Whitlock

Raw Story reports that two bills are in the works in the U.S. to honour Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring – one to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth and one to name ... Read More »

May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Proulx rocks out

By Q&Q Staff

Joanne Proulx launched her novel Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet (Penguin Canada) with a This Is Not a Reading Series event at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel on May 15. And she had a little help from ... Read More »

May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Key Porter's private dancer

By Q&Q Staff

On May 16, Key Porter Books launched Vanessa Craft's novel Out of Character - about a woman who takes a job at a "gentleman's club" in London, England - with an event at 65 Degrees ... Read More »

May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Back to the '70s with Teresa Toten

By Q&Q Staff

YA author Teresa Toten launched her latest novel, Better Than Blonde (Penguin Canada), at a Toronto restaurant on May 7. The book is set in the 1970s, so launchgoers were encouraged to dress up as ... Read More »

May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Bringing Popeye back

By Leigh Anne Williams

Comic-book publishers have always been archivally minded, but they're getting more and more so lately. Capitalizing on the buzz around graphic novels and cartooning, some houses are putting together lovingly packaged multi-volume collections of yesteryear's ... Read More »

May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Zach Wells and others take on Survival

By Leigh Anne Williams

Two years ago in Vancouver, five Canadian poets got together for a panel discussion on the state of the art, and tried to hash out whether Margaret Atwood's seminal CanLit study Survival has energized or ... Read More »

May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

James Patterson to close Toronto readers' festival

By Nathan Whitlock

BOOKED!, the readers' festival created to accompany BookExpo Canada, has confirmed (as previously reported by Q&Q Omni) that bestselling thriller author James Patterson will be the star of a finale event to close the festival ... Read More »

May 16, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

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A sad day in Gotham

Launch for Chantel Simmons' Stuck in Downward Dog

Kids take over Toronto's Harbourfront

Plan to honour Silent Spring author blocked in U.S. senate

Proulx rocks out

Key Porter's private dancer

Back to the '70s with Teresa Toten

Bringing Popeye back

Zach Wells and others take on Survival

James Patterson to close Toronto readers' festival

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