Book news

Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund reforms to help U.S. man charged with child pornography

Here's some friendly advice for Canadians returning from the U.S. after the July 4th festivities: be careful what reading material you bring back across the border. Last year, a U.S. man was charged with possession ... Read More »

July 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book links round-up: J.K. Rowling makes her agent disappear, Borders has a buyer, and more

By Sue Carter

J.K. Rowling casts her longtime agent away Najafi Companies buys Borders for $215-million, with "considerable number" of stores still to close YA author John Green reaches top of Amazon bestseller list with unfinished book George ... Read More »

July 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Canadian literary event round-up: July 1-7

By Jason Spencer

Here are just a few of the literary events happening in the coming week: Underground Inspirations zine launch, readings, and guests LAL and Abstract Random, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto (July 1, 7 p.m., free) Literary magazine Dragnet ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Canada Day reading: eligible Giller Prize titles announced

By Sue Carter

Perhaps there's a drinking game in here somewhere, to be played at your fantasy Canada Day barbecue with Margaret Atwood. The Scotiabank Giller Prize has posted a list of all books eligible for the 2011 ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

In the July/August issue of Q&Q: 2011 fall preview

By Sue Carter

The busy season for publishers has no shortage of big new releases, with novels from Ondaatje, Vanderhaeghe, and Endicott, the Massey Lectures from Adam Gopnik, and kids' books from Kenneth Oppel and Kit Pearson. In ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Preview

Review: D.J. McIntosh’s The Witch of Babylon

By Sue Carter

This review of D.J. McIntosh's new novel, The Witch of Babylon, appeared in the July/August issue of Q&Q. Reviewer Cori Dusmann writes: The debut novel from Toronto writer D.J. McIntosh “ the first book in ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book links round-up: Amazonian business strategies, grammatical zombies, and more

By Jason Spencer

If authors scratch Amazon's back, they will be rewarded To avoid sales tax, Amazon drops California sales partners A look into how the Internet changed publishing The death of the Oxford comma was a hoax (or ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Writers’ Trust calls on Canadians to vote for the best political book

By Stuart Woods

Just in time for Canada Day, the Writers' Trust of Canada has unveiled its list of the best Canadian political books of the past 25 years. The dozen finalists were chosen from nominations sent in ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Conrad Black memoir due this fall

By Stuart Woods

After several years of delays, the newly re-sentenced Conrad Black is ready to publish his memoir chronicling (among other things) his prison years. And if you take Lord Black at his hyperbolic word, readers should ... Read More »

June 29, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Was William Shakespeare a cocaine cowboy?

By Sue Carter

If William Shakespeare was alive today, would he be making late-night trips to White Castle? South African anthropologist Francis Thackeray thinks so. Thackeray, director of the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand ... Read More »

June 29, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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