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Jillian Tamaki, D&Q editors among Canadians nominated for 2015 Ignatz Awards

The Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland, has announced the nominees for its annual Ignatz Awards, which recognize excellence in independent comics – and 12 Canadians have made the list. The nominees in nine categories were ... Read More »

August 18, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Eight Saskatchewan writers shortlisted for High Plains Book Awards

By Becky Robertson

Eight Canadian authors have been named finalists for the 2015 High Plains Book Awards, based in Montana. The awards were established in 2006 by the Billings Public Library Board to recognize titles published the year ... Read More »

August 18, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Heritage Toronto honours Milton Acorn and Gwendolyn MacEwen

By Becky Robertson

Heritage Toronto is due to honour poet and playwright Milton Acorn and his former wife, author and CBC radio docudrama writer Gwendolyn MacEwen*, with a plaque on Toronto's Ward's Island. Acorn (1923–1986), a Charlottetown, P.E.I., ... Read More »

August 18, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, People

Book trailer for Patrick deWitt’s Undermajordomo Minor released

By Becky Robertson

In anticipation of the Sept. 5 publication of B.C.-born author Patrick deWitt's third novel, Undermajordomo Minor, House of Anansi Press, Ecco U.S., and Granta U.K. have revealed the book's trailer. A marriage of work by ... Read More »

August 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Elton John speaks on Venice’s LGBT book ban, OUP plagiarizes Wikipedia, and more

By Becky Robertson

Elton John calls Venice mayor "boorishly bigoted" for LGBT picture-book ban. When reputable publishers plagiarize Wikipedia. Swedish behavioural psychologist vows to put any child to sleep with new picture book. McGraw-Hill, Pearson file lawsuit over ... Read More »

August 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Writers at Woody Point rename Heritage Theatre after Shelagh Rogers

By Becky Robertson

The Writers at Woody Point literary festival held in Newfoundland's Bonne Bay region, presented annually by Friends of Writers at Woody Point, has renamed its historic Heritage Theatre after the festival's host, CBC Radio's Shelagh ... Read More »

August 17, 2015 | Filed under: Events, People

NYT exposes workplace environment at Amazon, Naomi Klein on Australia’s climate change inaction, and more

By Becky Robertson

"Even as the company tests delivery by drone and ways to restock toilet paper at the push of a bathroom button, it is conducting a little-known experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers, ... Read More »

August 17, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Judith Kerr to publish first title in 37 years, Gabriel Garcia Marquez returns home, and more

By Becky Robertson

British picture-book author Judith Kerr, known for Mog series, announces first book in 37 years. Gabriel García Márquez's ashes find home in his birth country, Columbia. Roxane Gay talks to Ta-Nehisi Coates. Authors on their ... Read More »

August 13, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Inanna, Gilgamesh, and Bruno Mars: Kim Echlin’s ongoing quest narrative

By Steven W. Beattie

In the history of feminism, the name Enheduanna does not rank highly, though it probably should. The daughter of the renowned Sumerian general Sargon of Akkad – also known as Sargon the Great – Enheduanna ... Read More »

August 13, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Charles Taylor awarded $1.5-million John W. Kluge Prize, the publishing world’s franchise problem, and more

By Becky Robertson

Canadian philosopher and writer Charles Taylor awarded $1.5-million John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity along with Jürgen Habermas. The publishing world's franchise problem. "There’s only so many times a new ... Read More »

August 12, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

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