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Toronto Comic Arts Festival unveils 2017 poster

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival unveiled the poster design for its 2017 edition, taking place at the Toronto Reference Library May 13–14. This year's promotional poster was created by Eleanor Davis, a cartoonist and illustrator from ... Read More »

March 10, 2017 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Book Making: Talonbooks revisits 1967 Montreal imagery for its reissue of Tremblay’s Notebook series

By Conan Tobias

Michel Tremblay’s Notebook trilogy, published between 2006 and 2009 by Talonbooks, is ripe for a sesquicentennial reissue. “We were thinking which of our backlist titles we should convert to ebooks,” says Chloë Filson, Talonbooks’s production ... Read More »

March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Spaces: The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec

By Q&Q Staff

A livre by any other name: The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec keeps English literature circulating in a city that’s predominantly French. English books are hard to come by in Quebec City, a ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Book news, Uncategorized

D&M to publish memoir by North Korean defector Lucia Jang

By Emma Renda

Douglas & McIntyre has acquired English-language Canadian rights to a memoir by Lucia Jang, co-written by Susan McClelland. The Stars in Between the Sun and the Moon is Jang's account of her defection from North ... Read More »

January 17, 2014 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Jane Urquhart story collection to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary

By Emma Renda

This morning, HarperCollins Canada announced the forthcoming publication of a collection of short stories by iconic Canadian author Jane Urquhart commemorating Canada's 150th anniversary. The book will be a series of narratives about 100 artifacts ... Read More »

January 15, 2014 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Random House Canada to publish Kirstine Stewart on women in leadership

By Julie Baldassi

Twitter Canada managing director Kirstine Stewart is set to publish her first book with Random House Canada in spring 2015. According to a press release, Our Turn is about women in leadership roles "in a ... Read More »

December 6, 2013 | Filed under: Uncategorized

The perils of politicians publishing poetry

By Nathan Whitlock

The Guardian's Stuart Jeffries has nothing good to say about British MP Boris Johnson's debut book of poetry The Perils of the Pushy Parents (HarperCollins), but in the book's defence, it could be said that ... Read More »

November 9, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Salman Rushdie steps up to the plate for new media

By Stuart Woods

Readers of this space will know that a favourite hobby of book reviewers is publicly agonizing over the apparent decline of their craft. One of the most keen proponents of this view is former Los ... Read More »

September 25, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Reviewing: the long and short of it

By Leigh Anne Williams

Following up on Steve Wasserman's recent essay calling for longer book reviews (previously mentioned on Quillblog), Michael O'Donnell says less is more. In an essay on the book reviewing blog Critical Mass, O'Donnell argues that ... Read More »

September 13, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Blogs vs. newspapers, round 147

By Leigh Anne Williams

In the Boston Globe, Sven Birkets considers an age-old (OK, it just feels age-old) question: what do blogs and newspaper reviews, respectively, contribute to our literary culture? His piece boils down to an argument that ... Read More »

August 1, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

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