Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Paul’s case brouhaha

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Insomniac Press publisher Mike O'Connor has sent a mailing to about 130 bookstores across the country defending his right to publish - and booksellers' right to sell - Paul's Case, Lynn Crosbie's controversial work of ... Read More »

April 7, 2004

Virtual bookstore closes

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Canada's Virtual Bookstore has closed its virtual doors. Guy Russel, who launched the online retail venture just over a year ago, says the business wasn't losing money - "it paid for itself, after a while" ... Read More »

April 7, 2004

Fanfare for Fleming

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Anne Fleming has been fielding a lot of calls recently. Since her short-story collection Pool-hopping and Other Stories was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award, the B.C. writer, who wasn’t well known outside her home ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

A writer who

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Poet Dennis Lee spoke for many in the literary world with his eulogy for Matt Cohen, the brilliant Canadian writer who died in December at the age of 56: “There are losses so deep they ... Read More »

April 7, 2004

Michael Turner by a nose

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The past week saw awards handed out at both ends of the country, one of the most hotly contested being the B.C. Book Awards’ Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, which went to Michael Turner for The ... Read More »

April 7, 2004

They like us!

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Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber (Warner/H.B. Fenn), about a planet settled by colonists of Caribbean background, got a warm reception in the Apr. 30 New York Times Book Review. Reviewer Gerald Jonas, who says Hopkinson’s second ... Read More »

April 7, 2004