- Canadian independent magazine Briarpatch launches “Writing in the Margins,” its first annual creative writing contest
- Brian Joseph Davis profiles Coach House publicist extraordinaire Evan Munday (who recently launched his debut YA novel) in the Toronto Standard
- Google eBookstore opens in U.K., Canadian launch expected “in the coming months”
- Drawn & Quarterly authors Daniel Clowes and Adrian Tomine share a stage at San Francisco’s Alternative Press Expo
- Men of the Stacks calendar strips away the naughty librarian stereotype for a good cause
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