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 »
Dave Godfrey was many things: an author and publisher who was at the forefront of the CanLit explosion in the 1960s and ’70s, a teacher, a software developer, and a vintner. He was also a ... Read More »
"My wife has said about me that I'm the only person she knows who would take a history of the guillotine to the beach." American novelist and short story writer Jim Shepard's choice of beach ... Read More »
May 28, 2015 | Filed under: Authors
For publishers and writers on the Prairies, opportunities have never been more plentiful. But a persistent inability to catch the attention of media east of Manitoba continues to pose a problem In the history ... Read More »
May 20, 2015
Amazon, the world’s largest online book retailer, and HarperCollins, the second-largest of the so-called “big five” publishers in the U.S., have entered into a multiyear contract, avoiding a protracted battle over discounts and pricing. Bloomberg ... Read More »
April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Bookselling
The Ontario Book Publishers Association and the Open Book Foundation have selected Holly Kent as their new executive director. The newly created position combines two previous positions into a single role overseeing the operations of ... Read More »
April 2, 2015
"I kind of understand a lot of what goes on in deviant minds,” says Tony Burgess casually. “Broken minds, antisocial minds, psychopathic minds, outsider minds. It’s something I’m drawn to, because I probably have one.” ... Read More »
March 13, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture
In a lecture delivered in February 2010, a little more than two years after Terry Pratchett announced he had been diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer's disease, the fantasy author described ... Read More »
March 12, 2015 | Filed under: Authors
UTP Distribution appears to be the big winner in the wake of HarperCollins's decision late last year to close its Canadian warehouse and consolidate distribution operations out of the U.S. No fewer than four of ... Read More »
March 5, 2015
When Val James walked out on the ice at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York, to participate in a ceremonial pre-game puck drop earlier this month, it was something of a homecoming for ... Read More »
February 24, 2015 | Filed under: People
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