When Michael Dennis died on Dec. 31, 2020, he was not nearly as well known as he should have been for a poet who had spent more than four decades in the CanLit trenches, carving ... Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »