For Elisabeth de Mariaffi, reading murder mysteries is something of a guilty pleasure. That’s one reason why her debut novel was so enjoyable to write. Bookish types know de Mariaffi as a writer of short ... Read More »
July 7, 2014
Riding on the success of this year’s inaugural Pages Festival + Conference, former Toronto bookseller Marc Glassman has decided to rebrand his long-running This Is Not a Reading Series. Pages UnBound will be a series ... Read More »
May 1, 2014
Lydia Davis on her new collection, Can't and Won't Gravity author Tess Gerritsen files suit against Warner Brothers for percentage of movie profit British publisher Lawrence & Wishart battles Marxist.org for copyrights on Marx and Engels' ... Read More »
April 30, 2014 | Filed under: Book news
Toronto Public Library patron requests Dr. Seuss's Hop on Pop be removed from shelves Steven Spielberg to direct Roald Dahl's The BFG movie adaptation About 300 people attend Alistair MacLeod funeral in Cape Breton Books for Gone Girl fans Wellcome Trust announces shortlist for $30,000 ... Read More »
April 29, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
When SappyFest, the annual music festival held every August in Sackville, New Brunswick, finished last year’s event $15,000 in the hole, organizers had to find a way to pay off the debt. Their solution? SappyForever ... Read More »
April 28, 2014 | Filed under: Industry news
Harper Lee agrees to release To Kill a Mockingbird digital edition Margaret Atwood writes dystopian tale for British Library comic exhibition Nowhere in Africa writer Stefanie Zweig dies at 81 Elizabeth Gilbert gives TED talk ... Read More »
April 28, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
Amazon runs out of Thomas Piketty's best-selling economics book Capital in the 21st Century The Book of Negroes miniseries director pleased with Cape Breton filming location Ann Brashares' fifth Sisterhood book to be adapted for film Historian Fernando de Prado ... Read More »
April 25, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
Howard Engel is the winner of the inaugural Crime Writers of Canada Master Award, which is “intended to recognize writers who have a substantial body of work that has garnered national and international recognition.” Engel, ... Read More »
April 24, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
Writer and coder Mark Moyes and illustrator Jeff Frizzell are set to release Loose Strands, an interactive book app for kids that incorporates choose-your-own-adventure elements. The app will be available for purchase from Apple's app ... Read More »
April 24, 2014
As part of an initiative to educate the Canadian publishing industry on working with indigenous authors, the Saskatchewan Arts Board is hosting the inaugural Aboriginal Editors Circle. The weeklong residency program will bring together eight ... Read More »
April 21, 2014
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