by Leigh Anne Williams

Sexy CanLit?

Sex in Canadian fiction is the angle of Peter Darbyshire's review of Stephen Marche's Raymond and Hannah on the CBC Arts website. In CanLit, Darbyshire laments, "sex is rarely a pleasurable event. Instead, it is ... Read More »

February 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The new-style book award

By Leigh Anne Williams

Award-watchers love to gripe about the subjectivity and secrecy of jury-panel decisions. But lately a couple of book-related sites have gone one better and tried to create alternatives. Late last year, Ontario's Good Reports site ... Read More »

February 7, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

How comic books have abandoned children

By Leigh Anne Williams

With all the talk about graphic novels and comics-for-grownups now reaching the mainstream media, few people have looked at the problem of comics for kids: the problem being that there aren't any, or at least ... Read More »

February 7, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Book clubs: scourge of the reading life

By Leigh Anne Williams

The CBC's recently relaunched arts website includes a screed by writer Li Robbins on the many evils of book clubs. Her point seems to be that they destroy the individual freedom and essentially solitary pleasure ... Read More »

January 31, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

An academic scolding for Canada Reads

By Leigh Anne Williams

With the CBC's fourth annual Canada Reads program set to kick off on Feb. 21, a recent editorial on the Canada Reads phenomenon in the scholarly journal Canadian Literature is well timed. And writer Laura ... Read More »

January 31, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Into the mythic with Pierre Berton

By Leigh Anne Williams

Geist magazine's Stephen Osborne asks why certain writers -- Pierre Berton chief among them -- have traditionally been considered tragically unhip by certain literati, despite their popular appeal. And in "certain literati" Osborne includes a ... Read More »

January 24, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Remembering Richard Outram

By Leigh Anne Williams

Ontario poet Richard Outram, depressed after the death of his wife, committed suicide last week, writes George Murray on his Bookninja blog. The 74-year-old Outram, a widely admired "poet's poet," was also a friend and ... Read More »

January 24, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Palaces of light

By Leigh Anne Williams

Former Q&Q staff writer Devin Crawley is now maintaining his own blog, Enlightened Librarian, which features some wonderful writing about libraries, books, buildings, communities, and life in Ottawa. Here's a sample: a consideration of "the ... Read More »

January 20, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The unhappy lot of the successful author

By Leigh Anne Williams

Earlier this week we posted a link to a Robert McCrum column decrying the publicity demands that big-time authors must endure. Now, Canadian online commentator Alex Good has weighed in with some perspective, addressing both ... Read More »

January 20, 2005 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Unotchit? We no get it

By Leigh Anne Williams

Margaret Atwood's invention of a remote book-signing machine -- first reported in the January issue of Q&Q and later picked up by The Globe and Mail and The Guardian, among others -- is now starting ... Read More »

January 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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