Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Selling the farm

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Quick – think of a business that parallels the publishing industry. Did anyone say farming? Milking cows and marketing books may seem like a strange comparison, but when it comes to succession planning, these Canadian ... Read More »

May 10, 2005

The book of the future

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Remember e-books? If you thought they were an aberration of the late 1990s, like new Volkswagen Beetles or Ricky Martin, you’re wrong. They’re coming back – and this time, driven by the new and more ... Read More »

May 10, 2005

Desperately seeking readers

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For anyone who has stayed a while in the Canadian book trade – whether persevering publishers, anxious agents, or earnestly obstinate booksellers – the landscape has altered almost past recognition. A cursory look around any ... Read More »

May 10, 2005

CanLit’s neglected roots

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When we talk of the beginnings of Canadian literature, we tend to focus mostly on the 1950s and 1960s, when authors like Robertson Davies, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, and Margaret Atwood were coming to the ... Read More »

May 10, 2005

Ontario’s night to remember

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Ten-forty-five a.m., October 15, 2004. Heavy rain, gusting winds, and near-freezing temperatures are making this autumn morning absolutely miserable. “Well, at least the weather is co-operating,” I think as I turn off of Weston Road ... Read More »

May 10, 2005

How to get boys reading

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I clearly remember my first foray into the realm of literary criticism. It was the late 1950s, and I was sitting at the kitchen table devising ever more gruesome ways to slaughter Noddy and his ... Read More »

May 10, 2005

Forks in the road

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Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, one of last fall’s most talked-about books, presents a re-imagining of a crucial period in American history. In Roth’s “counterfactual” novel, the Republican Party convinces Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh ... Read More »

May 10, 2005