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Book Links: Growing number of women in book media; Imre Kertesz dies; superheros aren’t just for adults anymore

2015 VIDA count reveals growing number of women in U.S. literary arts. (Flavorwire) Bleaker days for women: a historical VIDA count. (Literary Hub) DC, Random House partner on young adult superhero novels. (Comics Alliance) Nobel-winning ... Read More »

March 31, 2016 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: Margaret MacMillan launches video series; Trump for kids; a plagiarism mystery

By Becky Robertson

Author-historian Margaret MacMillan launches video series. (CBC Books) A look at the University of British Columbia's recently acquired medieval manuscripts. (Publishing Perspectives) Irish author Eilis O'Hanlon discovers her 13-year-old mystery novel was plagiarized – and ... Read More »

March 30, 2016 | Filed under: Book links, Book news

Poem in Your Pocket Day comes to Canada

By Becky Robertson

Poem in Your Pocket Day, an event that encourages readers to carry a specially selected poem around with them and share it with others, will be extended to Canada for the first time ever on ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Book news

York professor Craig Heron recognized by International Labor History Association

By Becky Robertson

York University history professor Craig Heron's 2015 title, Lunch-Basket Lives: Remaking the Workers' City (Between the Lines Books), has been named Book of the Year by the International Labor History Association. The book, which focuses on the ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Dean Jobb, Sarah Mian among Atlantic Book Awards finalists

By Becky Robertson

The Atlantic Book Awards Society has released it 2016 shortlists. Following the Atlantic Book Awards and Festival April 20–27 – with literary events in all four Atlantic provinces – prizewinners will be announced in New ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Book Links: Harper Lee bashes Trump; 25 per cent of U.K. library jobs cut; the most secret book in the world

By Becky Robertson

Harper Lee's personal letters, including one in which she trashes Donald Trump's casino, up for auction. (Salon) One quarter of the U.K.'s library workforce has been cut over past six years amid the closure of ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Book links

Q&A: Gordon Korman on the TV-movie adaptation of his Macdonald Hall series

By Dory Cerny

It’s been 40 years since the publication of Gordon Korman’s first novel for young readers (written when he was just 12 years old), This Can’t be Happening at Macdonald Hall. Who would have thought it ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Authors, Children's publishing

Personal Essay: Comics about living with cancer were born out of a desire to communicate how the experience felt for me, writes Teva Harrison

By Q&Q Staff

When I was first diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, I didn’t want to talk about it to anybody. I grudgingly talked to doctors, but I didn’t want to go to support groups ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Authors, People, Writing life

Sara Tilley wins BMO Winterset Award

By Becky Robertson

The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council has announced that St. John's author and theatre artist Sara Tilley is the recipient of this year's BMO Winterset Award for her 2015 novel Duke (Pedlar Press). The award ... Read More »

March 28, 2016 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Book Links: guns don’t kill people – little girls in red hoods kill people; trouble with Scribd’s switch to new model; Jim Harrison dies

By Becky Robertson

Canadian literary festivals "flourishing." (Publishing Perspectives) Scribd frustrates users amid switch to new model. (The Digital Reader) NRA becomes parody of itself, re-imagines fairy tales with added firearms. (Melville House) Swedish Academy formally condemns fatwa ... Read More »

March 28, 2016 | Filed under: Book links

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Book Links: Growing number of women in book media; Imre Kertesz dies; superheros aren’t just for adults anymore

Book Links: Margaret MacMillan launches video series; Trump for kids; a plagiarism mystery

Poem in Your Pocket Day comes to Canada

York professor Craig Heron recognized by International Labor History Association

Dean Jobb, Sarah Mian among Atlantic Book Awards finalists

Book Links: Harper Lee bashes Trump; 25 per cent of U.K. library jobs cut; the most secret book in the world

Q&A: Gordon Korman on the TV-movie adaptation of his Macdonald Hall series

Personal Essay: Comics about living with cancer were born out of a desire to communicate how the experience felt for me, writes Teva Harrison

Sara Tilley wins BMO Winterset Award

Book Links: guns don’t kill people – little girls in red hoods kill people; trouble with Scribd’s switch to new model; Jim Harrison dies

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