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Adam Sternbergh, Louise Penny, Will Ferguson make U.K. Crime Writers’ Association awards longlists

Three Canadian authors are included on longlists for the upcoming 2014 Dagger Awards, presented by the U.K. Crime Writers' Association. The first batch of this year's Daggers were bestowed at a gala dinner Monday, where ... Read More »

July 2, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Guy Gavriel Kay, Chris Hadfield given Order of Canada honours

By Dory Cerny

Lauded author Guy Gavriel Kay was one of several members of the Canadian literary community appointed to the Order of Canada on Monday. Recognized "for his contributions to the field of speculative fiction as an ... Read More »

July 2, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Toronto’s TheatreBooks to close, resurrecting Johnny Canuck, and more

By Dory Cerny

Toronto's TheatreBooks to close Archivist launches crowdfunding campaign to bring back Johnny Canuck comics Amazon defends its stance on Hachette in Wall Street Journal Terry Pratchett cancels Discworld appearance due to Alzheimer's Macondo Books in ... Read More »

July 2, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Q&Q staff share their summer reading lists

By Julie Baldassi

ALISON JONES, PUBLISHER Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths, Nancy Marie Brown (Palgrave Macmillan) Among the many gaps in my knowledge is the fact that I have never read the Norse ... Read More »

June 30, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Last word: Nadia Bozak on writing intuitively

By Q&Q Staff

I had to put aside the baggage of intertextual analysis in order to write intuitively, writes Nadia Bozak When I was doing my Ph.D., I thought a lot about “intertextuality,” particularly in terms of postmodernism ... Read More »

June 27, 2014 | Filed under: Authors

Evan Munday’s CanLit tribute, Amanda Lindhout memoir adapted for film, and more

By Sue Carter

Evan Munday's spectacular CanLit Mt. Rushmore Rooney Mara to star in film adaptation of Amanda Lindhout's memoir A House in the Sky French parliament unanimously votes in favour of “the Anti-Amazon Law" Vice reviews "celebrity" ... Read More »

June 27, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Sarah Polley to adapt John Green’s Looking for Alaska

By Sue Carter

Sarah Polley has been tapped to write and direct Looking for Alaska, an adaptation of the 2005 YA novel by John Green, reigning king of the teen-tearjerker and author of The Fault in Our Stars. ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Cover to cover: Kathy Page’s Paradise & Elsewhere

By Sue Carter

Designer Kate Hargreaves searches for the right blend of reality and fantasy, animal and human for the cover of Kathy Page’s story collection Paradise & Elsewhere (Biblioasis) 1. When I started working on this cover, ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Dunham on Munro, Germany vs. Amazon, and more

By Stuart Woods

Lena Dunham on her (recent) discovery of Alice Munro The New York Times on the German publishing industry's efforts to launch an Amazon inquiry A virtual, visual memorial to Glasgow's Mackintosh Library, destroyed by fire ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Toronto Star donates a century’s worth of photographs to Toronto Public Library

By Julie Baldassi

Toronto Public Library has unveiled a massive new photo archive donated by Toronto Star. The archive, which consists of more than 1 million print photographs taken from 1900 to 1999, is held at the Toronto Reference Library ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

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