Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Sales keep rising for Broadview

By

Sales and profits have continued to grow at Broadview Press, which released its 2003 year-end results last week. The Calgary-based academic publisher posted net income of $185,000 for the year on book sales of $3.7-million. ... Read More »

April 16, 2004

Vardey’s quest

By

Lucinda Vardey has spent the morning discussing Christian mysticism, the search for meaning, the healing powers of yoga, and Mother Teresa. She has approached each of these topics with an uncommon intensity, her eyes burning ... Read More »

April 14, 2004

Up close and personal

By

Following recent seasons dominated by big, ambitious overviews of century and country, this spring’s non-fiction lists seem smaller in scope. Several of the season’s political and history titles – and even cookbooks and travel guides ... Read More »

April 14, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

The Lowther legacy

By

"I’ve always remembered that when the police boat took us away from my father, nobody bothered to speak to us,” says Christine Lowther, recalling a childhood incident that turns up in her new poetry collection ... Read More »

April 14, 2004

Take two

By

Ken McGoogan didn’t plan to do more than correct a couple of typos when he began looking over the manuscript of his 1993 novel Visions of Kerouac in preparation for a new U.S. release. But ... Read More »

April 14, 2004