Shortlists for the annual Gerald Lampert Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award were announced last night at the National Poetry Month launch event in Toronto. The Gerald Lampert Award recognizes the best debut poetry ... Read More »
Travelling literary journals are hiding in Toronto coffee joints U.K. singer Kate Bush receives permission to use quotes from Joyce's Ulysses, and it only took 20 years Well before Williamsburg, Famous authors and their typewriters ... Read More »
April 5, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
It's National Poetry Month here in Canada, an annual initiative by the League of Canadian Poets to bring public attention to poetry. But across the Atlantic, the beginning of April more closely resembles T.S. Eliot's ... Read More »
April 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Manning Marable, one of the most significant scholars devoted to post-war African-American life, spent 15 years working on an exhaustive biography of the great Civil Rights activist Malcolm X. The result, a 600-page tome called ... Read More »
April 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
When House of Anansi Press was strategizing its marketing campaign for The Little Book of Rob Ford, a collection of quips, quotes, and colourful comments from Toronto's mayor, it took a more subtle approach than ... Read More »
April 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Here are just a few literary events happening across the country in the next week: April Fools' celebration at the Auburn Saloon, as part of the Calgary Spoken Word Festival (April 1, 8 p.m., $12) ... Read More »
April 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Last week, the National Post's Mark Medley wrote a piece about his ever-expanding book collection and the difficulty he has lightening his load by even a single volume. "I am a book hoarder," he says. ... Read More »
March 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Toronto's literati gathered on Thursday to celebrate the launch of Antanas Sileika's third novel, Underground (Thomas Allen Publishers), a love ... Read More »
March 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Here's one for bargain seekers patiently digging through second-hand stores, hoping to score a treasure amongst the polyester. Halifax illustrator and filmmaker Colleen MacIsaac found a used hardcover edition of the Robertson Davies play A ... Read More »
March 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Sundry links from around the Web: Doubleday Canada publishing director Lynn Henry on making the first English-language acquisition of Karen Thompson Walker's much-hyped debut novel, The Age of Miracles Booksellers outraged that posthumous David Foster ... Read More »
March 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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