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Q&Q Canada Day weekend schedule

With Canada Day coming on a Thursday this year, the staff of Q&Q will be making an extended four-day weekend out of it by taking Friday off as well. Consequently, the website will not be ... Read More »

June 30, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

This Ain’t the Rosedale Starbucks?

By Nathan Whitlock

Someone decided to express their anger over the padlocking of This Ain't the Rosedale Library by scrawling all over the store's windows and display chalkboard. Here's what the anonymous bookstore lover wrote: "4 Rent by ... Read More »

June 29, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Festival to mark 25th anniversary of Larkin’s death

By Steven W. Beattie

The British poet Philip Larkin died on December 2, 1985. To mark the 25th anniversary of his death, the city of Hul, U.K., is holding a 25-week festival called Larkin 25. Besides lectures by Larkin ... Read More »

June 28, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

More on the sexual mores of Canadian publishing

By Stuart Woods

Author Stacey May Fowles has established herself as a trenchant observer of the sexual mores of Canadian publishing. Last week, in her column with Masthead.com, Fowles offered her take on the Davidar scandal, arguing that ... Read More »

June 28, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Lawrence Hill gets some love from Oprah

By Steven W. Beattie

It's summertime, which means barbeques, beach volleyball, and anarchists smashing windows in downtown Toronto. (Okay, that last was just a one-off ... it is devoutly to be hoped.) Another seasonal ritual is the summer reading ... Read More »

June 28, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Russell Smith on sex and Canadian publishing

By Stuart Woods

Globe and Mail columnist Russell Smith offers his thoughts on sex in Canadian publishing. His conclusion? Despite the fact that it is full of "totally unbelievable hotties," overall the industry is surprisingly chaste. The author ... Read More »

June 24, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up: Borders fights back on pricing; 50 best book covers; and more

By Scott MacDonald

A mess o' links for ya: Borders adds $20 gift card to Kobo purchases. Stay tuned for retaliatory moves from Amazon, Barnes & Noble Susan Orlean on switching publishers The 50 best book covers of ... Read More »

June 23, 2010 | Filed under: Book links, Book news

Andrew Phillips appointed head of Penguin International

By Stuart Woods

The Bookseller is reporting that Andrew Phillips, the deputy CEO of Dorling Kindersley, has been appointed the new head of Penguin International, filling a vacancy left by the ouster of David Davidar. Phillips, who will ... Read More »

June 22, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

This Ain’t the Rosedale Library in jeopardy

By Steven W. Beattie

Less than a month after Toronto's Glad Day Bookshop issued a public plea for donations to keep the store afloat, another Toronto indie, described by the Guardian in 2005 as "Canada's best independent bookstore," is ... Read More »

June 21, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Nobel Prize“winner Saramago dies at 87

By Steven W. Beattie

The Associated Press is reporting that José Saramago, the only Portuguese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at age 87. Born in 1922, the author left his job as a metalworker ... Read More »

June 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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