Kong Njo is currently the art director of McClelland & Stewart, heading a department of four in-house designers. Prior to immigrating to Canada he worked as a designer at the Luis Camões Museum in Macao, ... Read More »
October 30, 2003
Rohinton Mistry’s long-awaited follow-up to 1995’s A Fine Balance will be delayed for another season, but that leaves two proven CanLit stars – Alice Munro and Timothy Findley – to generate some early buzz around ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Bookselling
Films play a leading role on international book lists this year. Screen adaptations of Louis de Bernières’ worldwide bestseller Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, and, of course, The Lord of the Rings, promise to rekindle interest in ... Read More »
October 30, 2003
Something about the start of a new century prompts us to explore the past. This fall children’s lists take a long look backward, with a range of historical titles, including the launch of two new ... Read More »
Hugh Brewster is the vice-president and editorial director of the Toronto-based packager Madison Press Books. His first full-time publishing job was with Scholastic Canada, first as a copywriter and later as editor of the company’s ... Read More »
As an investigative journalist, there’s one comment above all others that irks me: “Well, you weren’t sued, so everything you wrote must be true.” The comment is always meant well, but it betrays such a ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Events
For the second year in a row, Random House of Canada held court on the day after the trade show ended, running a day-long simulated sales conference for more than 40 independent booksellers. After an ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
The tech market is in a slump, but that doesn’t mean business book buyers can ignore the impact of technology and e-business. Books for Business owner Jane Cooney and her staff have selected about 40 ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
Hundreds are buried in their season. When hatched, they must dig themselves out, and propel themselves clumsily across the open beach. Predators thin out their numbers in the rush to the sea, but even in ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
A solution to the returns crisis? No. Since 1994, Toronto artist Tom Bendtsen has been using between 7,000 and 11,000 books to make his giant structures. The series is called Argument, and Bendtsen has so ... Read More »
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