by Leigh Anne Williams

Carl Wilson's heart will go on

Toronto writer, music blogger, and Globe and Mail editor Carl Wilson is set to publish a most unusual book of music criticism. Wilson is doing a title for the 33-1/3 series of short books devoted ... Read More »

October 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Chretien's jeopardized promo plans

By Leigh Anne Williams

Jean Chretien's sudden heart surgery this week came just before the launch of his much-anticipated memoir, My Years As Prime Minister. As James Adams reports in The Globe and Mail, Chrétien was scheduled to visit ... Read More »

October 4, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Hope for school libraries (in Ontario, anyway)

By Leigh Anne Williams

Heather Reisman can take a bow today. The Indigo CEO appears to have shamed Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty into promising a major funding boost for the province's cash-starved school library system. As The Globe and ... Read More »

September 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Rock the vote: Frankfurt Book Fair edition

By Leigh Anne Williams

This year's Frankfurt Book Fair officially kicks off on October 10 – the same day that Ontario is holding its provincial election and referendum. Which means that publishing folks here in the province who are ... Read More »

September 20, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

New in the print Q&Q

By Leigh Anne Williams

Coming soon to a newsstand or mailbox near you is the October 2007 issue of Quill & Quire. Our cover story is a profile of Cape Breton writer D.R. MacDonald. The issue also looks at ... Read More »

September 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Reviewing: the long and short of it

By Leigh Anne Williams

Following up on Steve Wasserman's recent essay calling for longer book reviews (previously mentioned on Quillblog), Michael O'Donnell says less is more. In an essay on the book reviewing blog Critical Mass, O'Donnell argues that ... Read More »

September 13, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

He's back: HarperCollins buys Frey novel

By Leigh Anne Williams

Disgraced memoirist James Frey – who was made a star when Oprah Winfrey chose his book A Million Little Pieces for her book club, then humiliated when she berated him for embellishing the facts in ... Read More »

September 13, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Watch this space: Q&Q on Klein

By Leigh Anne Williams

You may have heard that Naomi Klein has a new book out this week, The Shock Doctrine. Watch the reviews section of the Q&Q website tomorrow for contributor Dan Rowe's review of the book. The ... Read More »

September 7, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Surviving the MFA

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the Dooney's Cafe site, John Harris offers a survey of the career of Canadian author Robert Harlow, who was also the head of UBC's creative writing program. The piece argues that too much exposure ... Read More »

September 6, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

The dawn of e-books, no, really, for sure this time

By Leigh Anne Williams

The New York Times looks at a couple of new e-book platforms set to launch soon. One of them is Amazon's Kindle, which "will be priced at $400 to $500 and will wirelessly connect to ... Read More »

September 6, 2007

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