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Book Making: Tania Craan on designing Helen Humphreys’s The River

For more than a decade, author Helen Humphreys has owned a property on Ontario’s picturesque Napanee River. Her latest book, The River (ECW Press), is a meditation on the landscape, mixing archival and contemporary photos, ... Read More »

January 18, 2016 | Filed under: Book culture

Cover to cover: Jennifer Lum on designing Tessa McWatt’s Higher Ed

By Q&Q Staff

Jennifer Lum uses a variety of illustrated images to capture the humorously frazzled quality of the characters in Tessa McWatt’s novel Higher Ed (Random House Canada) 1. The author’s previous book, Vital Signs, was about ... Read More »

February 6, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

IFOA’s International Visitors Programme: the schmooze factor

By Cheri Hanson

Less than 24 hours into a September business trip to New York City, three people had already asked Iris Tupholme the same question: how could they land an invitation to the International Visitors (IV) Programme? ... Read More »

October 18, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Deals, Events

Random House of Canada launches online magazine as part of digital overhaul

By Stuart Woods

What does a major publishing house look like in the digital age? Random House of Canada has offered one answer with today's launch of a multifaceted digital strategy that includes an online magazine (known as ... Read More »

August 23, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Frye Festival throws 100th birthday bash for Northrop Frye

By Katie Gowrie

As Northrop Frye's 100th birthday is recognized across Canada this week, the Frye Festival is commemorating its namesake by hosting a community event in honour of the literary critic. The free event takes place on ... Read More »

July 9, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Book links roundup: Kobo to launch in Japan, Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine Prize for African writing, and more

By Katie Gowrie

Kobo to launch in Japan this month The Caine Prize for African writing goes to Rotimi Babatunde Little, Brown releases cover design for J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to publish ... Read More »

July 3, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

PEI pulls publishing grant – again

By Natalie Samson

The government of Prince Edward Island has axed a subsidy designed to support the province's publishers. The Island Publishers Support Program offered up to $10,000 to PEI publishers to "encourage and develop Prince Edward Island ... Read More »

June 19, 2012 | Filed under: Industry news

Ryerson University confers honorary doctorates on Mistry, Atwood, Gibson

By Natalie Samson

Toronto's Ryerson University is confering honorary doctorates on three CanLit heavyweights at the school's spring convocation ceremony. This morning, Rohinton Mistry received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the Faculty of Communication and Design, ... Read More »

June 8, 2012 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Book links roundup: Saddam Hussein’s daughter seeks publisher, World e-Reading Congress happenings, and more

By Katie Gowrie

Saddam Hussein's daughter seeks publisher her for father's memoirs Print books endorsed at World e-Reading Congress Amazon shareholders meeting disturbed by tax protests Robert Pattinson to play Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games sequel Shakespeare's ... Read More »

May 25, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, dies at age 83

By Katie Gowrie

Where the Wild Things Are, 1963 He is known for upending the traditions of American children's fiction - for taking it out of the safe confines of the home and plunging it into darker, more ... Read More »

May 8, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

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Search Results by tag: design

Book Making: Tania Craan on designing Helen Humphreys’s The River

Cover to cover: Jennifer Lum on designing Tessa McWatt’s Higher Ed

IFOA’s International Visitors Programme: the schmooze factor

Random House of Canada launches online magazine as part of digital overhaul

Frye Festival throws 100th birthday bash for Northrop Frye

Book links roundup: Kobo to launch in Japan, Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine Prize for African writing, and more

PEI pulls publishing grant – again

Ryerson University confers honorary doctorates on Mistry, Atwood, Gibson

Book links roundup: Saddam Hussein’s daughter seeks publisher, World e-Reading Congress happenings, and more

Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, dies at age 83

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