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Photographers from across the country who contribute to our Quill & Quire Flickr Pool have been busy! Photographer Frances-Anne Solomon captures Caribbean-Canadian author Rachel Manley (third from left) surrounded by fans at the Toronto launch ... Read More »

March 13, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Information management

By Nathan Whitlock

Though there is hardly a lack of books about what's gone wrong with the Bush administration and its invasion of Iraq, access to information about the president became much more difficult for authors and historians ... Read More »

March 9, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

The text, the whole text, and nothing but the text?

By Nathan Whitlock

Readers who have, in the course of literature studies or even inadvertently in a conversation over too much coffee or red wine in a café, stumbled into the thorny question of "literary criticism – what ... Read More »

March 9, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Misery loves company

By Alison Jones

As reported in an article from the Independent, "misery literature" is gaining in popularity, especially in the form of memoirs. Last year, the bestselling memoir in the UK, Behind Closed Doors by Jenny Tomlin, which ... Read More »

March 6, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

More money for GG arts awards

By Alison Jones

As reported by the CBC, the amount of money for the Governor General's Awards in literature, the performing arts, and visual arts is increasing. The Canada Council provides the prize money; in May of last ... Read More »

March 6, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Marquezapalooza

By Alison Jones

Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has a lot to celebrate, reports the CBC. The author turns 80 today, and this year also marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of his classic novel One Hundred ... Read More »

March 6, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Young novelists just got younger

By Leigh Anne Williams

The U.K. literary journal Granta has compiled a new list of 20 "best young American novelists," whose work will be featured in the next issue. Granta's done this with British writers multiple times, and once ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Sympathy for the pedophile

By Leigh Anne Williams

When the third question in an author interview is "Are you suggesting that having sexual feelings for little girls is normal?" you know the writer's new book isn't your typical CanLit meditation on memory and ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Jane Austen more popular than Jesus in Britain

By Nathan Whitlock

The BBC reports that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice topped a survey of more than 2,000 British book lovers as the book they just couldn't live without, besting The Bible, which was sixth from the ... Read More »

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

Event photos: Spreading the gospel at Glory Land launch

By Q&Q Staff

On Feb. 22, Thomas Allen Publishers teamed up with Heritage Toronto to launch Karolyn Smardz Frost's I've Got a Home in Glory Land with a special event at St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto. Karolyn Smardz ... Read More »

March 2, 2007 | Filed under: Events

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Flickr event roundup

Information management

The text, the whole text, and nothing but the text?

Misery loves company

More money for GG arts awards

Marquezapalooza

Young novelists just got younger

Sympathy for the pedophile

Jane Austen more popular than Jesus in Britain

Event photos: Spreading the gospel at Glory Land launch

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