There is a great deal of doom and gloom these days over the fact that fewer people seem to be reading than has been the case in recent history, but an article in The New ... Read More »
January 10, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Sundry links from around the Web: Toronto novelist Stephen Marche takes on Snooki in the National Post Canadian Manda Group, the Canadian sales agent for Guinness World Records, sets a new record for duct-taping a ... Read More »
January 10, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
McClelland & Stewart has announced that the sixth novel by Michael Ondaatje will be published in Canada on Aug. 30, 2011. Plot details for the novel, titled The Cat's Table, are still pretty scarce, but ... Read More »
January 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Following yesterday's report by Q&Q, there has been much speculation in the media and publishing world about the uncertain future of the troubled Key Porter Books. In a statement released this afternoon, the Bolton-based company ... Read More »
January 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The Writers' Trust of Canada has announced the finalists for the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, awarded annually to a non-fiction book that has the "potential to shape or influence Canadian political life." ... Read More »
January 5, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Patsy Aldana, the publisher of Groundwood Books, was named a member of the Order of Canada last week. A native of Guatemala, Aldana came to Canada in 1971 and started Groundwood (which was acquired by ... Read More »
January 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
A year ago, in the week following Christmas, Canadian publishers and distributors were greeted with the dismaying news that one of the country's leading bookstore chains, McNally Robinson Booksellers, was significantly scaling back its operations, ... Read More »
January 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Over the New Year's weekend, The New York Times published a series of articles on the state of book criticism at the start of 2011. The general introduction to the series, which features articles by ... Read More »
January 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The stereotype has it that England is filled with recondite literati ensconced in mahogany-lined libraries reading leather-bound volumes of Romantic poetry and plump Victorian novels. This as compared to the beer-swilling philistines in America, gorging ... Read More »
With the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy in the past (an adaptation of The Hobbit is in the works), the Harry Potter series coming to a close at cinemas in spring 2o11, and only ... Read More »
December 20, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
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