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Toronto ice rink to be named after Paul Quarrington

Four years ago today, beloved writer, musician, and filmmaker Paul Quarrington died from cancer at the age of 56. Soon, friends and fans will have a chance to pay homage to Quarrington in a new ... Read More »

January 22, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Spring preview 2014: picture books, non-fiction, and international titles for young people

By Dory Cerny

Picture books Author Laurel Croza and illustrator Matt James join forces once again on From Here to There (Groundwood, $18.95 cl., May), the sequel to their Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award"“winning I Know Here. "¢ ... Read More »

January 22, 2014 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Debuting children’s ebook for visually impaired, CanLit cocktails, and more

By Emma Renda

E-book for visually impaired kids coming soon to iPad Canadian literature cocktails at Royal York Hotel toast Munro, Boyden, Richler, Barclay, and others David Cronenberg pens introduction to latest translation of Kafka's The Metamorphosis Three Cups of Tea financial ... Read More »

January 22, 2014

Spring preview 2014: fiction for young people

By Dory Cerny

This season, shelves will groan under the weight of titles from some of kidlit's most beloved Canadian authors. Fresh off her Norma Fleck Award win for her non-fiction title Kids of Kabul, Deborah Ellis will ... Read More »

January 21, 2014 | Filed under: Preview

Winnipeg’s Mondragon bookstore to close

By Sue Carter

After 18 years in business, lefty Winnipeg café and alternative bookstore MondragÃ³n will close on Jan. 26. Currently run by a collective of five members, the shop was named after a Basque town in northern ... Read More »

January 21, 2014 | Filed under: Bookselling

WEbook.com launches publishing platform, Amazon patents “anticipatory shipping service,” and more

By Emma Renda

WEbook.com introduces crowd-based publishing program Amazon "anticipatory shipping" service aims to foresee purchases Mid-century live readings of Updike, Roth, Baldwin get digital reissue The Silent ... Read More »

January 21, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Spring preview 2014: non-fiction, part 2

By Julie Baldassi

Food In Whitehorse food writer Michele Genest's second book on the cuisine of the North, the author includes such unusual recipes as birch-syrup pannacotta with rhubarb compote and solstice-cured lake trout gravad lax. Boreal Feast ... Read More »

January 18, 2014

Nelson Mandela comic book bio, Lena Dunham working on Eloise doc, and more

By Emma Renda

Nelson Mandela biography gets comic-book treatment Lena Dunham announces doc on Eloise illustrator, Hilary Knight Biography of YA gothic novelist V.C. Andrews Debut novel ... Read More »

January 18, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Book City Annex location to close after 38 years

By Julie Baldassi

Toronto independent mini-chain Book City announced Thursday afternoon it will be closing its flagship location in the Annex this spring after 38 years in business. "The lease was up and we agonized over the decision, ... Read More »

January 17, 2014 | Filed under: Bookselling

D&M to publish memoir by North Korean defector Lucia Jang

By Emma Renda

Douglas & McIntyre has acquired English-language Canadian rights to a memoir by Lucia Jang, co-written by Susan McClelland. The Stars in Between the Sun and the Moon is Jang's account of her defection from North ... Read More »

January 17, 2014 | Filed under: Uncategorized

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