This morning, a group of literary insiders joined Scotiabank Giller Prize jurors Anna Porter and Gary Shteyngart at Toronto’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel for the unveiling of the award’s shortlist.
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- In May, Will Ferguson delivered a keynote address at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre as part of the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs conference. Click here to listen to Ferguson <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2012/05/24/quillcast-episode-nine-will-ferguson-on-teaching-humour/">discuss teaching and his writing practice</a>, and <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7599">click here for a review of <i>419</i>.</a><br /> <br />
- <I>419</I>, Will Ferguson (Viking Canada)
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- In her review, <i>Q&Q</i> reviewer Dory Cerny writes, Richler manages to make us care about her vast catalogue of broken souls, even in their most trivial moments."<br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7572">Read the rest of the review.</a><br />
- <I>The Imposter Bride</I>, Nancy Richler (HarperCollins Canada)
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- <i>Q&Q</i> reviewer Allison MacLachlan writes, The narrator's patchwork recollections tell a classic multigenerational story, but the book's format keeps it fresh. Small sections flow non-chronologically, like memories, intersecting via common elements such as a feeling of vulnerability, a particular skin tone, a bowl of soup, or a scar.<br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7530">Read the rest of the review.</a><br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/authors/profile.cfm?article_id=12122">Read a profile of Kim Thúy.</a><br />
- <I>Ru</I>, Kim Thúy; Sheila Fischman, trans. (Random House Canada)
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- "Wangersky ... doesn't go in for the cult of the unadorned sentence that makes a lot of so-called dirty realism such a grind to read. He rewards readers by frequently offering up sudden bursts of poetic prose, writes <i>Q&Q</i> reviewer Nathan Whitlock.<br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7659">Read the rest of the review.</a>
- Whirl Away, Russell Wangersky (Thomas Allen Publishers)
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- It's always a good sign when a book that opens with an attempted suicide still manages to elicit a surprised chuckle from the reader by page eight, writes <i>Q&Q</i>'s Dory Cerny in her starred review of <i>Inside</i>.<br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7724">Read the rest of the review.</a>
- <I>Inside</I>, Alix Ohlin (House of Anansi Press)
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