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Telling the Canada Council where to go … next

Turning 50 is often the catalyst for reflection, re-examination, and the occasional mid-life crisis. Quillblog hopes the Canada Council for the Arts is nowhere near its mid-life point, but in its 50th anniversary year, the ... Read More »

May 16, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

The friends of Gary Hyland

By Q&Q Staff

Hagios Press launched Gary Hyland's new poetry collection Hands Reaching in Water at the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre on May 3. More than 150 people attended and the Oak & Rose Book Shoppe sold more ... Read More »

May 11, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Claire Cameron launches The Line Painter

By Q&Q Staff

Claire Cameron launched her first novel, The Line Painter (HarperCollins Canada), at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel on April 26. (Photos courtesy of HarperCollins Canada) Cameron with HarperCollins Canada marketing manager Lindsey Lowy ... ... and with ... Read More »

May 11, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Flickr photo roundup: Language Acts, Ottawa Fest, and Rosemary Shipton

By Q&Q Staff

Contributors to our Q&Q Flickr photo group have been busy on the book beat in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. Poet Carmine Starnino posted some pics, including the one above, from the April 27 launch of ... Read More »

May 10, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Keep on working (and writing)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The publication of a couple of office-set novels, Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End and Jenny Turner's The Brainstorm, has writer DJ Taylor wondering (in The Independent) why there aren't more novels about ... Read More »

May 10, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Surf's up for Susan Casey (and her collaborator)

By Leigh Anne Williams

Toronto-raised author Susan Casey, who now lives in New York City, has signed a million-dollar deal for a new book about the science of surfing and the quest of top surfers to master ever-bigger waves. ... Read More »

May 10, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Reviewers as endangered polliwogs

By Nathan Whitlock

David Kipen, a former book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has joined the battle to save newspaper book review sections from cutbacks and possible extinction with an essay on Salon.com. Kipen argues that the ... Read More »

May 9, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Too many books?

By Nathan Whitlock

Design Observer has an interesting essay by Alice Twemlow of the School of Visual Arts in New York contemplating the sheer abundance of books now being produced. According to the Mexican critic Gabriel Zaid, writing ... Read More »

May 9, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

New in the June Q&Q

By Leigh Anne Williams

Watch for the June 2007 issue of Quill & Quire in stores or in your mailbox imminently. It features a cover profile of Gil Adamson, House of Anansi Press's latest debut novelist, as well as ... Read More »

May 9, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Coach House Books Spring Launch

By Q&Q Staff

Coach House Books brought writers, editors and readers together at Toronto club Revival. (All photos by Julia Gotz.) Coach House publisher Stan Bevington with a twinkle in his eye. Nicole Brossard and Rachel Zolf reading. ... Read More »

May 4, 2007 | Filed under: Events

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Telling the Canada Council where to go … next

The friends of Gary Hyland

Claire Cameron launches The Line Painter

Flickr photo roundup: Language Acts, Ottawa Fest, and Rosemary Shipton

Keep on working (and writing)

Surf's up for Susan Casey (and her collaborator)

Reviewers as endangered polliwogs

Too many books?

New in the June Q&Q

Coach House Books Spring Launch

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