Book news

The results are in: Q&Q’s Giller pool

Every year before the Scotiabank Giller Prize is handed out, the staff of Q&Q brings its collective wisdom to bear to pick the likely winner “ and for the most part, we get it wrong. ... Read More »

November 11, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: a small town book tour, inappropriate books for kids, and Walt Whitman selling jeans

By Alison Potstra

Bookish links from across the Web: Test your celebrity poet knowledge over at Details and guess which verses have been written by Michael Jackson, Mr. Spock, Jewel, or William Butler Yeats Battle of the sexes, poetry ... Read More »

November 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Barnes & Noble e-books are coming to town

By Alison Potstra

B&N announced yesterday that beginning around Dec. 1, Canadian customers will have access to the U.S. retailer's e-book store and will be able to download titles to their iPhones, BlackBerrys, etc. However, B&N's own e-reader, ... Read More »

November 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

When life imitates art

By Alison Potstra

Alice Munro's short story, "Dimensions," which appears in her recent collection Too Much Happiness, is one that the author herself cannot reread. In the story, a blue-collar B.C. father suffocates his three young children with a pillow ... Read More »

November 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

New Yann Martel novel to drop in April

By Stuart Woods

Yann Martel's highly anticipated follow-up to the Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi will drop in April, well ahead of the original release date in June. According to a press release from Martel's Canadian publisher, ... Read More »

November 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Event photo: Geoffrey Taylor gets schooled

By Nathan Whitlock

As reported earlier on Quillblog, IFOA head Geoffrey Taylor has been awarded an honorary degree from the School of Creative & Performing Arts at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. The ceremony took ... Read More »

November 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Google settlement (finally) gets its day in court

By Steven W. Beattie

The so-called "fairness hearing" to assess the legality of the much-debated Google Book Search settlement was supposed to have occurred one month ago in New York, but in the face of international opposition and an ... Read More »

November 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Harlequin tries for some online love with digital publishing venture

By Steven W. Beattie

Harlequin Enterprises, best known as a publisher of romance novels in the traditional "dead tree" format, has just launched an online publishing house, Carina Press. According to the Carina home page, the new venture will ... Read More »

November 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The latest book-banning news: Catholic school board proposes a list of “acceptable” novels

By Stuart Woods

In the past year or so, a handful of parental complaints have resulted in books such as Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird being banned in several Toronto-area schools. ... Read More »

November 5, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Barack’s brother speaks out

By Stuart Woods

Barack Obama's half-brother, Mark Ndesandjo, has broken his media silence to promote a semi-autobiographical novel about the U.S. president's abusive father. Ndesandjo told the Associated Press in a recent interview that the novel, titled Nairobi ... Read More »

November 5, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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