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Shelagh Rogers’ multimedia Northwords project brings city-dwelling authors out of their comfort zone

Led by CBC Radio's Shelagh Rogers, five urban Canadian authors spent a week writing and observing life in Northern Labrador. Northwords, a documentary that captures their experiences, is screening at IFOA, Oct. 20 at 2 ... Read More »

October 19, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Fall preview 2012: Canadian non-fiction, part II

By Steven W. Beattie

The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there's no shortage of new releases from marquee names. In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at some of the fall's ... Read More »

August 9, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Preview

Random House Television launched

By Katie Gowrie

Random House and FremantleMedia, two companies owned by the media corporation Bertelsmann AG, have partnered to launch Random House Television “ a new project that will develop television content from Random House books. Galleycat quotes ... Read More »

July 26, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Take the Rory Gilmore reading challenge

By Sue Carter

While some critics have suggested that Mad Men and The Wire are the most literary shows to hit television, they must have forgetten Amy Sherman-Palladino's chatty family drama Gilmore Girls, which ran for seven seasons ... Read More »

July 25, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Tosca Reno takes the reins at Robert Kennedy Publishing

By Natalie Samson

Author and fitness maven Tosca Reno will take over as publisher and chief executive officer at Robert Kennedy Publishing in Mississauga, Ontario. Robert Kennedy, who founded RKP in 1967 with the launch of MuscleMag International, ... Read More »

April 18, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Publishing at the polls: Arts and culture platforms

By Sue Carter

Tonight is the first televised leadership debate of the federal election. It's unlikely arts and culture will be mentioned, so here's a primer on how all parties (including the Green Party) stand on issues that ... Read More »

April 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news

Aussie readers asked for input about future of publishing

By Steven W. Beattie

Last week, the Internet behemoth Google launched its e-book sales site, Google eBooks, in the U.S. The e-book market is now crowded with offerings from Amazon, Kobo, Apple, and Sony, which in turn has spawned ... Read More »

December 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Fear of poetry waning, and the Globe opens the BÃ¶k on lipograms

By Steven W. Beattie

The Huffington Post has taught Quillblog a new word. "Metrophobia" is not an aversion to riding the Paris subway or to well-coiffed men; it refers to a fear of poetry. And apparently, this affliction is ... Read More »

January 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Eye Weekly launches new book club

By Steven W. Beattie

When Oprah announced last November that she is calling it quits in 2011, publishers blessed by the mojo of the daytime television doyenne's eponymous book club started biting their collective nails, wondering where they would ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Ray Robertson on baiting the Giller

By Stuart Woods

Writing in the National Post books blog, novelist Ray Robertson says that while Alice Munro may have to forcibly remove her work from Scotiabank Giller Prize consideration, he doesn't even bother with the formality “ ... Read More »

October 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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