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Eleanor Catton takes on gendered language in book coverage

Last week, Neko Case created a stir on Twitter when she responded to a tweet from Playboy.com that claimed she is "breaking the mould of what women in the music industry should be." The phrase ... Read More »

May 26, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

BookNet Canada profiles Canadian book buyers, Anne Emery and the Trailer Park Boys, and more

By Steven W. Beattie

Infographic: BookNet Canada profiles the "average Canadian book buyer" Author Anne Emery discusses writing, the McDonald's murders, and the Trailer Park Boys with CBC Canada Writes The 15th annual Festival de la poésie de Montréal, ... Read More »

May 26, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Last Word: Mick Lowe on fiction and the cloak of “plausible deniability”

By Mick Lowe

"I aim to do for nickel what Zola did for coal.” Those words – my own words – expressed the edgy, cocky aspirations of a 26-year-old newly arrived in Sudbury, Ontario, exactly 40 years ago. ... Read More »

May 23, 2014 | Filed under: Authors

Cover to Cover: Chris Hutchinson’s Jonas in Frames

By Sue Carter

Click on the thumbnails to see how book designer Chris Tompkins combined photography and illustration to convey the ... Read More »

May 23, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Amazon removes pre-order buttons from Hachette, finding appropriated metatext in Bob Dylan’s memoir, and more

By Sue Carter

Amazon removes pre-order buttons from Hachette titles, including new J.K. Rowling novel Researchers uncover more than 1,000 appropriated items in Bob Dylan's 2004 memoir, Chronicles NASA offering free ebook on decoding extraterrestrial messages Irvine Welsh ... Read More »

May 23, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Atlantic Book Award winners announced

By Julie Baldassi

This year’s Atlantic Book Awards put the spotlight on Prince Edward Island, with Acorn Press taking two prizes for Ni’n na L’nu: The Mi’kmaq of Prince Edward Island by Jesse Francis and A.J.B. Johnston, and ... Read More »

May 22, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

English- and Cree-language picture book wins First Nation Communities Read

By Stuart Woods

The selection for this year's First Nation Communities Read campaign is Wild Berries/Pakwa che Menisu, a picture book by Vancouver-based author and illustrator Julie Flett. Flett is also the recipient of the inaugural Aboriginal Literature ... Read More »

May 22, 2014 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Margaret Atwood’s craft brew, Jane Austen’s reading habits, and more

By Stuart Woods

Margaret Atwood collaborates with Beau's craft brewery on handmade ale PEN Canada nominates Toronto author Emily Izsak for New Voices Award Simon & Schuster makes ebook backlist available by subscription via Oyster, Scribd Rolling Stone ... Read More »

May 22, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Indigo sponsors Regent Park literacy initiative

By Emily Holmes

Author Eric Murphy A new literacy initiative, Regent Park Reads, aims to give Toronto students from Lord Dufferin Public School and Nelson Mandela Park Public School insight into the writing process through interactions with author ... Read More »

May 21, 2014 | Filed under: Children's publishing

Ontario Trillium Book Award nominees announced

By Sue Carter

Fiction, poetry, theatre, and creative non-fiction are represented among the English-language nominees for this year's Trillium Book Award, which recognizes books by Ontario authors published in any genre. Three poets were also nominated for the ... Read More »

May 21, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

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