A few notable titles
Q&As
Comics and graphica
The publishing business
Canadian kidlit
The towns of CanLit
Historically speaking
CanLit in the world
Q&Q through the decades

80 years of Q&Q: getting personal with CanLit personalities

In 1956, Timothy Findley published his debut story in the Tamarack Review, motivated by some friendly generational griping from his friend, actress Ruth Gordon (Harold and Maude). During a 1981 interview with Canadian Literature, Findley ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, People

80 years of Q&Q: CanLit gets down to business

By Q&Q Staff

Authors get organized Decades before online petitions and social media became favoured activist tactics, Canadian authors gathered over drinks to discuss the issues of the day. Grassroots organizations emerged out of late nights at the ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Bookselling, Digital publishing and technology

80 years of Q&Q: name the fictional towns of CanLit

By Q&Q Staff

Can you name these five fictional CanLit towns? Click on the images for answers. Illustrations by Scott ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Top book designers re-imagine classic CanLit book covers

By Sue Carter

Solomon Gursky was here This scene, of Solomon with his grandfather Ephraim, has stuck with me for years: “Ephraim slid a long knife free of their sled and planted it upright in the snow. He ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

80 years of Q&Q: comics & graphica, from Captain Canuck to D&Q

By Q&Q Staff

Canadian comics get a second chance The mid- to late 1970s brought a wave of nostalgia to comics, and with it, Canada’s Silver Age. These comics, consistent in their production values with most mainstream (i.e., ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, People, Writing life

80 years of Q&Q: notable titles, from cookbooks to LGBT classics

By Q&Q Staff

BRANDING GENERATION X Douglas Coupland’s debut novel wasn’t an instant hit when it was published in the spring of 1991, but it didn’t take long before critics and media saw the appeal in combining the ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, People, Writing life

80 years of Q&Q: historically speaking, CanLit moments through the years

By Q&Q Staff

Jack McClelland passes the M&S torch A few years after Jack McClelland (who once said “I am McClelland & Stewart”) sold his beloved M&S to businessman Avie Bennett in 1985, the larger-than-life publisher retired from ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Bookselling, People, Writing life

80 years of Q&Q: travelling through the decades

By Q&Q Staff

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

80 years of Q&Q: five musicians (and a few dabblers) with split identities

By Q&Q Staff

Dave Bidini The Rheostatics guitarist’s 1998 touring memoir, On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock (McClelland & Stewart), was short on the coked-out sex romps of Keith Richards or the Crüe, but ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture

80 years of Q&Q: talking with author and publisher Linda Leith

By Q&Q Staff

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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