Michael Ondaatje's new novel, Divisadero, is in stores this week. The Q&Q review of the book, written by our new feature ... Read More »
April 20, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
On the occasion of a new Penguin Classics edition of The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, novelist Ali Smith looks back at the life and career of the New Zealand-born fiction writer, who died in ... Read More »
April 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
Sensitivity or political squeamishness? BBC Radio has decided not to air a reading of a Hanif Kureishi short story . The story is in the running for the National Short Story prize, and the BBC ... Read More »
April 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors
It had to be one of the swankiest Canadian book launches on record: Rosalie Wise Sharp's memoir Rifke was launched at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto on April 17, where Sharp's husband, Four Seasons ... Read More »
April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Events
Harry Potter may be approaching his grand finale but he may still have something to learn from an older master of magic. According to The Guardian: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has, for the ... Read More »
April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Authors
The Guardian reports that a theme park based on the works of Charles Dickens is scheduled to open in Kent, England at the end of May. The £62-million project is located in a huge hangar ... Read More »
April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
The Halifax International Writers' Festival ran from March 28 through April 1. (Photos by HIWF.) CBC Radio's Olga Milosovich (at the podium) hosts an event with (from left) Tanya Davis, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Stephanie ... Read More »
April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Events
Heather Mallick launched her new collection of acerbic essays, Cake or Death: The Excruciating Choices of Everyday Life (Knopf Canada), at an event held in the labyrinthine Verity Women's Club in downtown Toronto on April ... Read More »
April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Events
It had to be one of the swankiest Canadian book launches on record: Rosalie Wise Sharp's memoir Rifke (ECW Press) was launched at the Four Seasons in Toronto on April 17, where Sharp's husband, Four ... Read More »
April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Events
The Independent posted an excerpt of an article originally published in the UK-based Mslexia magazine, in which Danuta Kean discusses the process of bringing great books to the big screen. The article references recent films ... Read More »
April 17, 2007 | Filed under: Authors
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