April 27, 2016
Ellen Seligman – the iconic editor and publisher of McClelland & Stewart, who died of undisclosed causes on March 25 – embodied CanLit. Her influence was pervasive, though like all good editors she remained resolutely ... Read More »
March 28, 2016
When reports of Al Purdy's death appeared on April 21, 2000, they stated that the renowned poet, who was suffering from metastatic lung cancer, had died in his sleep. Yesterday, Toronto Life published a posthumous ... Read More »
March 1, 2016 | Filed under: Authors
Italian author Umberto Eco, who died Feb. 19 at the age of 84, was that rarest of creatures: a best-selling semiotician. Granted, it was his fiction, not his academic work, that brought him the greatest ... Read More »
February 22, 2016 | Filed under: Authors
For more than 50 years, Pulitzer Prize winner Harper Lee insisted that she would be completely satisfied if she were to live her entire life with one single title, the classic 1960 novel To Kill ... Read More »
February 19, 2016 | Filed under: Authors
For J. Kent Messum, the publication of his first novel seemed auspicious. Bait – a high-concept thriller about a group of heroin addicts kidnapped and abandoned on an island where they are required to fend ... Read More »
February 1, 2016
Notable novels, story collections, and poetry for the coming season Natural selection Alissa York has worn many different hats in her life thus far: she has been a waitress, a florist, a bookseller, and, with ... Read More »
January 18, 2016
You know I have a penchant for the awful?” asks Billie Livingston with a laugh. This is something of an understatement. People who follow the Vancouver-based writer on Twitter (where she tweets @BillieLiving) will recognize ... Read More »
January 4, 2016
If the old saw is true that every dog has its day, it took storied Toronto small press Coach House Books 22 years to see one of its authors ascend the podium to claim the ... Read More »
November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
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