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We Scream for CanLit

This year's Scream Literary Festival kicks off in Toronto tonight with a launch at the Gladstone Hotel, featuring poets Dennis Lee, Souvankham Thammavongsa, George Elliott Clarke, and Shapour Shahidi. Now in its 15th year, the ... Read More »

July 3, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Event photos: The Book Lover's Ball

By Nathan Whitlock

CanLiterati and friends came to the Book Lover's Ball in black-tie elegance or costumes inspired by their favorite books on Feb. 15. ... Read More »

February 20, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Let's talk Fifth Business

By Leigh Anne Williams

In the U.S., Amazon.com has teamed up with Penguin to promote the Penguin Classics line via an online reading group. And the very first selection? None other than Robertson Davies' CanLit classic Fifth Business. Kathryn ... Read More »

September 28, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Is CanLit edgy?

By Nathan Whitlock

A story in The Toronto Star asks whether contemporary Canadian literature is or isn't "anti-urban and anti-modern in spirit, and inimical to experimental writers" – like Douglas Coupland, who sparked the debate with an online ... Read More »

August 25, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Industry news, Opinion

On photography

By Leigh Anne Williams

There are a couple of photo-related items to point out today. The CBC Arts website has a photo gallery of stills from Carte Blanche, a brand-new collection of the work of various Canadian photographers and ... Read More »

April 20, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Meet the authors

By Leigh Anne Williams

A couple of CanLit authors get the high-visibility profile treatment today. The CBC Arts site has a Q&A with Vancouver's Anosh Irani, whose second novel, The Song of Kahunsha, has just come out with Doubleday ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Toronto Star apologizes for Bigge

By Scott MacDonald

The most fun In Other Media has had in about two weeks should end with a posting by Toronto Star books editor Dan Smith that went up on the newspaper's website yesterday. In the posting, ... Read More »

February 21, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Awards, immigrant lit, and Vanity Fair: Marchand's year in review

By Scott MacDonald

On the Toronto Star website, books columnist Philip Marchand begins a CanLit-year-in-review piece, somewhat surprisingly, with a lengthy discussion of British novelist Ian McEwan's Saturday. Set in the present, McEwan's issue-driven novel is used as ... Read More »

January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

And don't forget the Tragically Hip

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Queen's Journal took an extended look at books in last week's issue. Stories included an interview with Kingston author Steven Heighton, a look at CanLit stereotypes, and an examination of why so many writers ... Read More »

November 25, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

We're on a road to nowhere

By Leigh Anne Williams

Following his participation in Humber College's first summer publishing workshop, writer Hal Niedzviecki has turned his experiences -- he served as one of three judges of the students' final projects, along with Kim McArthur and ... Read More »

October 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: CanLit

We Scream for CanLit

Event photos: The Book Lover's Ball

Let's talk Fifth Business

Is CanLit edgy?

On photography

Meet the authors

Toronto Star apologizes for Bigge

Awards, immigrant lit, and Vanity Fair: Marchand's year in review

And don't forget the Tragically Hip

We're on a road to nowhere

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