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Klein and Purdy docs premiere at TIFF’s 40th anniversary fest

It's August, which means (for film lovers, at least), the Toronto International Film Festival is right around the corner. Since its humble beginnings in 1976, the festival has grown in prestige and importance; it now ... Read More »

August 5, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Who killed the fun in Agatha Christie’s novels? (Spoiler: academics)

By Steven W. Beattie

When I was contemplating the field of study I wanted to pursue in university, many people advised me against undertaking an English degree, on the assumption that being required to forensically pick apart books I ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Gone Hollywood: Dr. Seuss, E.L. James, and publishing’s blockbuster mentality

By Steven W. Beattie

Dorie Clark, writing on the website of the Harvard Business Review, believes she has discovered the "hottest trend" in publishing today: books by established writers that were written decades ago. As evidence, Clark cites one ... Read More »

July 29, 2015 | Filed under: Opinion

Queens independent bookstore refuses profit on new Ta-Nehisi Coates book to boost readership

By Steven W. Beattie

The book that Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison has called "required reading" appears at an auspicious time for race relations in the U.S. Between the World and Me, the sophomore release from Ta-Nehisi Coates, national ... Read More »

July 28, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Emily St. John Mandel and Emma Hooper among surprise summer hits for U.K. booksellers

By Steven W. Beattie

Summer is vacation season for most people – a time to slow down, get away, and relax. Conventional wisdom has it that what is good for the body and soul is also good for the ... Read More »

July 27, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

American Psycho still causing problems 24 years later

By Steven W. Beattie

In the annals of censorship, Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel American Psycho holds a special place of honour. Ever since its release, the book has been the subject of controversy and repeated attempts to have ... Read More »

July 23, 2015 | Filed under: Bookselling

Hooked on classics: everything old is new again for Windsor publisher Biblioasis

By Steven W. Beattie

"Tolerating the old – and in the minors, anyone over twenty-five is old – was a special agony.” So wrote Canadian author Clark Blaise in his 1979 novel Lunar Attractions. Blaise was talking about the ... Read More »

July 20, 2015

2015 fiction fall preview

By Steven W. Beattie

Two sides of George Bowering One of Canada’s key postmodernists, co-founder of the influential literary journal TISH, Canada’s inaugural Parliamentary Poet Laureate, Governor General’s Literary Award winner, novelist, critic, historian, editor: there is very little ... Read More »

July 20, 2015 | Filed under: Preview

Brick Books marks its 40th anniversary with reissue of popular titles

By Steven W. Beattie

It’s about as easy and literal a design decision as it gets,” says legendary designer and typesetter Robert Bringhurst about the covers of Brick Books’ 40th anniversary Classics series. The line features a half-dozen of ... Read More »

July 6, 2015

“Modernism has come to Canada”: the enduring legacy of Dave Godfrey

By Steven W. Beattie

Dave Godfrey, who died of pancreatic cancer earlier this week, embodied a series of contradictions. He was a staunch cultural nationalist who set his best-known work of fiction in Africa; an author who prized linguistic ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, People

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Klein and Purdy docs premiere at TIFF’s 40th anniversary fest

Who killed the fun in Agatha Christie’s novels? (Spoiler: academics)

Gone Hollywood: Dr. Seuss, E.L. James, and publishing’s blockbuster mentality

Queens independent bookstore refuses profit on new Ta-Nehisi Coates book to boost readership

Emily St. John Mandel and Emma Hooper among surprise summer hits for U.K. booksellers

American Psycho still causing problems 24 years later

Hooked on classics: everything old is new again for Windsor publisher Biblioasis

2015 fiction fall preview

Brick Books marks its 40th anniversary with reissue of popular titles

“Modernism has come to Canada”: the enduring legacy of Dave Godfrey

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