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Men robbing banks with pitchforks; pythons eating cats, turkeys, and alligators; and police handcuffing kindergarten-aged kids: according to three recent books, all this and more goes down in Florida."I'm already putting together a file for ... Read More »
January 4, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Last week, Hal Niedzviecki wrote an article in The Globe and Mail commemorating the 10th anniversary of the small, Montreal-based publishing company Conundrum Press. Hitting some commercial success lately with books like Chandra Mayor's novel-in-vignettes ... Read More »
November 28, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
The good news: Kevin Chong's memoir Neil Young Nation, one of Greystone/Douglas & McIntyre's big fall titles, snagged a plum spot in The New York Times Book Review on the weekend. The bad news: the ... Read More »
November 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
We all know that Gillers and Governor General's Awards are boons for book sales in Canada. A book gets shortlisted, and its sales go up. A book wins, and its sales go up even further. ... Read More »
November 8, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Bookselling
It's only two days after the Governor General's Awards shortlists were announced, and media coverage has already been plentiful. The Toronto Star's Philip Marchand weighs in on the lack of overlap between this year's GG ... Read More »
October 19, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
CBC Arts writer Andre Mayer looks at the phenomenon of the ultra-prolific writer, with Alexander McCall Scott -- he of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, among many other books -- as the poster ... Read More »
April 18, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
CBC Arts looks back at the University of British Columbia's creative writing program on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. There is, of course, a strong emphasis on the commercial glory days of the late ... Read More »
March 17, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
With all the talk about graphic novels and comics-for-grownups now reaching the mainstream media, few people have looked at the problem of comics for kids: the problem being that there aren't any, or at least ... Read More »
February 7, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
The media cult around Doug Pepper continues to grow with a brief piece in the Toronto alternative weekly eye. The M&S president has made the paper's "Five for '05" list of things that "may make ... Read More »
January 6, 2005 | Filed under: Events
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