Search Results by tag: Q&A

Q&A: Chef Derek Dammann and food journalist Chris Johns share insights into their debut cookbook

If you ask a group of culinary professionals to define “Canadian food,” chances are you’ll get as many different responses as there are national lakes. One thing that most will agree on, however, is that ... Read More »

November 14, 2016 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Industry news

Q&A: Poet Ali Blythe’s debut collection, Twoism

By Casey Stepaniuk

How do we stay true to ourselves in a world that seems bent on forcing us to conform to the expectations of others? Victoria poet Ali Blythe investigates this question in Twoism, publishing in September ... Read More »

October 1, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

80 years of Q&Q: talking with The Great Black North editors Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron

By Safa Jinje

In 2013, Frontenac House published The Great Black North, the first anthology to survey contemporary African Canadian poetry in all its forms. Edited by author Valerie Mason-John and spoken-word poet Kevan Anthony Cameron, the collection ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Q&A: Aerial photographer Louis Helbig on his new book, Beautiful Destruction

By Becky Robertson

Williams Lake, B.C. native Louis Helbig began photographing the Alberta oil sands from his antique airplane in 2008. The photos became the basis of a series of art exhibitions, and now a book published by ... Read More »

December 12, 2014 | Filed under: Authors

Q&A: Linda Besner on organizing the Fish Quill Poetry Boat Tour

By Natalie Samson

For the third year in a row, Linda Besner and Leigh Kotsilidis will lead a group of poets and one musician on a canoe tour down the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. The lineup for ... Read More »

August 7, 2012 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Slideshow: Dundurn’s 40th anniversary party

By Stuart Woods

On May 24, Dundurn Press celebrated its 40th anniversary with a well-attended party at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto. Founded as a niche publisher of Canadian history, Dundurn is now one of Canada's ... Read More »

May 31, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Book links roundup: Harry Potter ebooks delayed, Putin’s book club, and more

By Sue Carter

OverDrive delays pre-orders of Harry Potter ebooks for libraries Will Putin's book club restore Russia as a "reading nation?" Q&A with Melville House co-owner Dennis Loy Johnson In the bloody battle for book sales, who ... Read More »

March 21, 2012 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Book links roundup: Police sketches of literary characters, Bookninja’s send-off, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

The Atlantic on literary characters' police composite sketches The National Post bids farewell to Bookninja Hot off her CBC Canada Reads win Carmen Aguirre performs her one-woman show based on her memoir Something Fierce Extremely ... Read More »

February 10, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Weekend reading from St. Joseph Media

By Sue Carter

From the latest film festival news to trendsetting fashions, here are the week's top stories from around the St. Joseph Media offices: Toronto Life: Up to the minute celebrity and industry news from the 2011 ... Read More »

September 10, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book links round-up: hidden meanings, rhetorical devices, and more

By Jason Spencer

A psychologist says pronoun usage speaks volumes about one's psyche NASA forms partnership with Tor-Forge Books to assist science fiction writers A New York Times columnist argues about how David Foster Wallace argued Review of ... Read More »

August 23, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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