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Fun with blurbs (Rebecca Eckler edition)

The other day a finished copy of Rebecca Eckler's new memoir, Wiped, arrived here at the Q&Q home office, complete with a press release that included some admiring blurbs of Eckler's first book, Knocked Up. ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Launch for Marjorie Harris's How To Make a Garden

By Q&Q Staff

The launch for Marjorie Harris's How To Make a Garden was held at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario, on March 22, 2007. The event was co-hosted by A Different Drummer Books and the ... Read More »

March 30, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Kenneth J. Harvey wins Winterset

By Q&Q Staff

Kenneth J. Harvey's novel Inside, which won the Roger's prize for fiction at the Writers' Trust awards earlier this month, has won the 2006 Winterset Award. Harvey was presented with the award at a ceremony ... Read More »

March 30, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Hemingway's letters to Dietrich unsealed

By Nathan Whitlock

Thirty letters that Ernest Hemingway wrote to Marlene Dietrich between 1949 and 1959 will be revealed to the public on Monday, The New York Times reports. Donated by Dietrich's daughter, Maria Riva, the letters, which ... Read More »

March 30, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

But is there an Arab William Hung?

By Nathan Whitlock

Talent show TV is as popular in Arab nations as it is in the West, according to a report in The Guardian. An Abu Dhabi-based show estimates it has an audience of 17 million. It’s ... Read More »

March 30, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Event Photos: Ken Harvey's award win, Emily Schultz's launch, and Hot Hot Hot!

By Leigh Anne Williams

Kenneth J. Harvey's novel Inside won the 2006 Winterset Award at Government House in St. John's, Newfoundland on March 29. The International Board on Books for Young People's biennial fundraiser was held at Toronto's Lula ... Read More »

March 30, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Events

George Jonas's Reflections on Islam

By Sara Forsyth

George Jonas launched Reflections on Islam (Key Porter Books) at the University of Toronto's Massey College with a little help from Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel, who made a surprise visit from Chicago. (Photos by ... Read More »

March 29, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Emily Schultz Eats Her Shoe

By Q&Q Staff

Well, not really. But the Toronto novelist and poet did launch her new book of poems, Songs for the Dancing Chicken (which is partly based on the work of movie director Werner Herzog, who did ... Read More »

March 29, 2007 | Filed under: Events

That's the story of my life

By Leigh Anne Williams

Is it early 2006 already? Slate is tapping into the hot (OK, cooling) topic of memoirs with "Memoir Week," a series of articles on the form, as well as first-person essays by authors. Among the ... Read More »

March 29, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Reading not quite dead yet

By Leigh Anne Williams

That's the message of a report from the Hamilton, Ontario arts research firm Hill Strategies, based on StatsCan data from 2005. As The Globe and Mail reports, 66% of Canadians reported having read at least ... Read More »

March 29, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

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Fun with blurbs (Rebecca Eckler edition)

Launch for Marjorie Harris's How To Make a Garden

Kenneth J. Harvey wins Winterset

Hemingway's letters to Dietrich unsealed

But is there an Arab William Hung?

Event Photos: Ken Harvey's award win, Emily Schultz's launch, and Hot Hot Hot!

George Jonas's Reflections on Islam

Emily Schultz Eats Her Shoe

That's the story of my life

Reading not quite dead yet

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