If you don’t know the name Courtney Summers, be prepared to get used to hearing it. The Ontario-based author of YA novels including her 2009 debut Cracked Up to Be (a Cybil Award winner) and ... Read More »
HarperCollins may withdraw titles from Amazon Hunter S. Thompson's Vancouver Sun job application 10th-century manuscript offers new treatment for MRSA Evergreen Review, which debuted Jack Kerouac, Susan Sontag, and more, returns after lengthy hiatus Best ... Read More »
April 2, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
The Leacock Associates have announced the finalists for the annual Leacock Medal for Humour, which recognizes the best book of humour by a Canadian from the year prior. On the list are memoirs by Great ... Read More »
April 1, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
The League of Canadian Poets has announced the shortlists for its annual Raymond Souster Award for a book of poetry by a league member, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for a first book of poetry by ... Read More »
April 1, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
Amazon.ca has announced the shortlist for its First Novel Award, which recognizes an exceptional English-language title by a Canadian first-time novelist. The finalists, as selected by The Walrus fiction editor Nick Mount, include Sean Michaels ... Read More »
April 1, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
Penguin Random House Canada has revealed the North American title and book jacket for the fourth instalment in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, written by Swedish author David Lagercrantz. The novel will appear Aug. 27 in ... Read More »
March 31, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, Book news
Shuttering of 66 Future Shop locations means buying an e-reader in Canada just got harder “You find love in things you read about in a book, from there we develop the concept out:” Singapore-based Page ... Read More »
March 31, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
Each month, Q&Q visits dingy watering holes, upscale cafés, and other haunts in search of the country’s most beloved book-launch venues The Factory Reading Series is the cozy, down-to-earth heart of Ottawa’s vibrant poetry scene. ... Read More »
March 30, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Events, Writing life
The impetus for a new novel sequence arose not out of exile or grief or post-traumatic stress, but out of the pure art of storytelling, writes André Alexis Some 30 years ago, I was watching ... Read More »
Irish-born Linda Leith has lived in several international cultural capitals, but Montreal became her home and, in many ways, her muse. Leith’s latest book is Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to ... Read More »
March 26, 2015 | Filed under: People
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