Could you make this stuff up? Phone hacking in literature Protecting the Toronto Public Library from threat of privatization Creating online ... Read More »
July 20, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
On July 20, as part of the Marshall McLuhan Centenary celebrations happening this week in Toronto, a group of academics, journalists, retailers, and publishers take part in a panel entitled Reading and Publishing: Paper or ... Read More »
July 18, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Andrew Westoll, former primatologist and author of The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary (HarperCollins Canada), is currently in the Republic of Congo, visiting the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Rehabilitation Centre, the largest sanctuary of its kind ... Read More »
July 13, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The Writers' Union of Canada is sponsoring a drive to replace books for the Slave Lake Library, which was destroyed during the devastating northern Alberta forest fires. The library still needs new titles, published within ... Read More »
Alexander MacLeod has been shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for his Scotiabank Giller Prize“nominated collection, Light Lifting (Biblioasis). The Frank O'Connor Award is "presented each year to an original collection of ... Read More »
July 12, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
Google eBooks launches e-reading device, available only at U.S. Target stores Amazon asks for California voter referendum, hoping to overturn ... Read More »
July 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Although Toronto's mosquitoes were feasting, the weather cooperated for The Last Scream in High Park, which wrapped up Monday night under a moonlit sky. Fifteen authors, including former host Misha Glouberman and Griffin Prize“winner Christian ... Read More »
July 12, 2011 | Filed under: Events
On July 5, approximately 80 people donned leis and Hawaiian shirts for the London Book Fair Luau to celebrate the ... Read More »
July 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
On July 5, Doubleday Canada hosted a launch party for Martha Schabas and her debut novel, Various Positions, at the Toronto ... Read More »
In an effort to help children affected by last March's earthquake and tsunami in Japan, on July 15, representatives from the Canadian embassy will read from The Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear (Kids Can Press) ... Read More »
July 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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