According to Rachel Salt, author and writer for the YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE, a staggering 6.3 metric tons of plastic – “equivalent to the mass of 42 million blue whales” – has been discarded over the ... Read More »
March 15, 2021
Canadian editor Janie Yoon spent the last 13 years helping build House of Anansi Press into one of the strongest domestic publishers around before departing at the end of 2020. Last week, Simon & Schuster ... Read More »
February 1, 2021
The nominees for the National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on Sunday and in the fiction category, readers can find stalwarts like Martin Amis and critical darlings such as Maggie O’Farrell and Bryan Washington. ... Read More »
January 25, 2021
Freehand Books, the Calgary trade publisher that spun off from the academic press Broadview Books in 2007, has been sold. Glenn Rollans, a publishing veteran in Alberta and owner of the Edmonton higher-ed publisher Brush ... Read More »
January 11, 2021
Canada has lost one of its groundbreaking feminist publishers. Luciana Ricciutelli, editor-in-chief at Toronto’s Inanna Publications, died on December 14, 2020, at the age of 62. A survivor of breast cancer, Ricciutelli died suddenly a ... Read More »
January 4, 2021
Since publishing his first book, the novel Some Great Thing, in 1992, novelist and non-fiction writer Lawrence Hill has met two editors of colour: one at HarperCollins who subsequently decamped for the U.S., and Janie ... Read More »
December 10, 2020
When Austin Clarke died in 2016, the bulk of his backlist was out of print. His 2002 Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel, The Polished Hoe, was still available, alongside his final novel, 2008’s More and his ... Read More »
December 3, 2020
AugurCon, the online gathering of speculative-fiction writers and readers being run by the Canadian spec-fic literary journal Augur, faced a number of hurdles to get up and running, from the ordinary challenges of programming a ... Read More »
November 26, 2020
The holiday bookselling season is always a logistical challenge for distributors – a time during which a large amount of inventory moves through the supply chain at lightning speed. This year, with COVID-19 continuing to ... Read More »
November 19, 2020
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