The cancellation of Imprint continues to generate online commentary. The latest is a piece on the Dooney's Cafe website by Gordon Lockheed. He's suspicious of TVO's stated rationale for axing Imprint, but like some other ... Read More »
Online commentator Alex Good ponders the death of Imprint in a comment piece on his website, Good Reports. Good does mourn the show's passing, but also throws out some reasons why books and television simply ... Read More »
Earlier this week we posted a link to a Robert McCrum column decrying the publicity demands that big-time authors must endure. Now, Canadian online commentator Alex Good has weighed in with some perspective, addressing both ... Read More »
With award season now having wound fully down, readers who missed Toronto Star columnist Philip Marchand's post-Giller musings will find them worth a look. He writes: "Literary scholars have a word for those little parts ... Read More »
November 29, 2004 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Bookselling, Opinion
The CBC website has an item on a most unusual poetry tour organized by Tate Young, an Edmonton-based Book TV producer and poet (who released a collection this year under the nom de plume Mingus ... Read More »
October 4, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
It's Bookermania over in Britain: Tuesday's shortlist announcement has the press abuzz. The early favourite to win the prize appears to be David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (which is published here by Vintage Canada); a William ... Read More »
September 22, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Is there an adult conspiracy to jolt kids from their peaceful childhoods by foisting depressing books on them? Laura Miller suggests there is in this New York Times piece, which decries the rise of afterschool ... Read More »
The National Post has a story by Peter Shawn Taylor about how political and social attitudes change the way we view children's books over time. Out, for example, is 1963's The Story of Bubbles the ... Read More »
Canada may have gotten the jump on the David Bezmozgis media feeding frenzy, but ripples are now starting to form south of the border as well. The Toronto-raised writer's debut book, Natasha and Other Stories, ... Read More »
It's ostensibly a review of Francis Wheen's Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons And The Erosion Of Common Sense (Public Affairs/HarperCollins), but Noah Richler's latest Toronto Star column is typically far-ranging. He ... Read More »
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