August 27, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
What are the odds of a Torontonian winning the Nobel Prize in Literature? Paid book reviewers meet demands for online raves Chicken Soup for the Soul to launch food line to accompany self-help books Popular ... Read More »
BBC to adapt Hilary Mantel's Man-Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall for television Steve Earle inks two-book deal with Grand Central Publishing Memorial for Gore Vidal held in Manhattan Director of women's refuge claims Fifty Shades ... Read More »
August 24, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
Canadians have the chance to meet and see some of their favourite writers, artists, and poets up close and personal at this weekend's readings and festivals, featured on Q&Q's events calendar. The August Sonata on ... Read More »
August 23, 2012 | Filed under: Events
Michael Ondaatje has been named a fiction finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for his novel The Cat's Table. The annual award, established in 2006 and based in the U.S., honours authors who have ... Read More »
August 23, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there's no shortage of new releases from marquee names. In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at some of the fall's ... Read More »
Emily Schultz talks beauty and violence in The Blondes Ontario illustrator Jason Fabok draws his way to the cover of DC Comics' Batman New book to "set the record straight" on the 2011 bin Laden ... Read More »
August 23, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
Michael Bryant's 28 Seconds: A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy and Hope slammed by Toronto police, slain cyclist's father Barnes & Noble narrows losses thanks to ebooks and Fifty Shades trilogy Sara Fawkes' self-published erotic ... Read More »
August 22, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
Among the thrill rides and various bacon-wrapped confectioneries at this year's CNE, there are also some literary listings worth checking out. On Aug. 27, Authors at the Harbourfront Centre presents a sneak peek of what's ... Read More »
August 22, 2012 | Filed under: Events
Billie Livingston on using reality in fiction Hairy Bikers' dieting book bumps Fifty Shades of Grey on U.K. bestsellers list Steampunk Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn? Choose Your Own Adventure series may go digital thanks ... Read More »
August 21, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town turns 100 Irvine Welsh criticizes Man Booker Prize at Edinburgh World Writers' Conference Barnes & Noble to release Nook in the U.K. this fall U.S. Olympic soccer ... Read More »
August 20, 2012 | Filed under: Book links