Quill and Quire

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Down an icy, sloped driveway on Gottingen Street in north-end Halifax you’ll find the entrance to Back Alley Books, the small and specialized used bookstore recently opened in the basement apartment of Brian Purdy, son ... Read More »

February 5, 2007

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After 10 years in which poems have been featured in buses and commuter trains in cities from Vancouver to St. John’s, many “poetry in transit” initiatives appear stalled.Last year, the Canada Council for the Arts ... Read More »

February 1, 2007

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Penguin Canada editor Helen Reeves has acquired world rights to a new work of non-fiction by Montreal computer hacker Michael Calce, aka “Mafiaboy.” Denial of Service: Mafiaboy, the Internet, and the Age of Online Insecurity ... Read More »

January 31, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

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Random House Canada editor Craig Pyette has picked up world rights to a new work by former Outpost Magazine publisher Christopher Frey. Broken Atlas: The Secret Life of Globalization will investigate “how world societies have ... Read More »

January 31, 2007 | Filed under: Book news