It's halfway through Movember, and even some of Canada's literary talent are sporting new upper-lip hair, raising money for prostate cancer research. Q&Q discovered The Cat's Mustache, a hirsute team of Canadian authors and poets, ... Read More »
British author Neil Gaiman is making his first appearance on The Simpsons. This Sunday, Gaiman joins the Springfield crew in an episode called "The Book Job," which also promises an inside look at the "corporate ... Read More »
Theytus Books, one of Canada's oldest aboriginal publishers, celebrated its 30th anniversary last Thursday. The full-day festivities comprised workshops about creativity and the land, including a poetry-chapbook-writing session and reading hosted by Jeanette Armstrong, at ... Read More »
November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology, Events
Two of the most high-profile winners of the 2011 Governor General's Literary Awards have already won major literary prizes this season. Charles Foran won the non-fiction prize for Mordecai: The Life & Times (Knopf Canada), which ... Read More »
Creating lists of the year's best books is an annual ritual in which I am frequently asked to participate. These requests never fail to make me uncomfortable: such judgments ultimately come down to matters of ... Read More »
November 14, 2011 | Filed under: Books of the Year
Conspiracy theories about the untimely deaths of major authors appear to be turning into something of a cottage industry. Over the summer, an Italian scholar let loose with his supposition that the car crash that ... Read More »
November 14, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Welcome to Quillcast, a new podcast series from Quill & Quire featuring behind-the-scenes conversations with authors and publishing insiders. In this episode, the first in a two-part series on non-fiction authors, Andrew Westoll speaks about ... Read More »
November 14, 2011 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Books of the Year, Quillcast
Every weekend Q&Q rounds up highlights from other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. This week's top stories include teaching your kids classic Canadian songs and Movember grooming advice. Thirteen great songs every Canadian ... Read More »
November 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
We've given a fair bit of space in Q&Q to conversations about literary criticism, but we've heard relatively little about what it means to be a critic of comics. Considering how significant graphic novels have ... Read More »
November 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Ottawa writer and journalist Jamieson Findlay is doing a hometown reading of his most recent novel, The Summer of ... Read More »