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Toronto Star Dispatches shortlisted for Digital Book Awards

Two Toronto Star ebooks have been shortlisted for Digital Book Awards, which "celebrate innovation in apps and ebook publishing." Life after Life: The Story of Wayne Ford, Rehabilitated Teenage Murderer by Paul Hunter and That ... Read More »

December 19, 2013 | Filed under: Awards, Digital publishing and technology

Toronto Star books columnist Greg Quill dies

By Sue Carter

Long-time Toronto Star books columnist and arts journalist Greg Quill died on Sunday. He was 66. Quill was a well-known musician in his native Australia. He got his start in journalism writing about music, and ... Read More »

May 6, 2013 | Filed under: Industry news

Jay Macpherson: 1931-2012

By Steven W. Beattie

One of Canada's finest “ and arguably most underappreciated “ poets has died. Jay Macpherson, a professor at the University of Toronto who won the Governor General's Literary Award for her 1957 collection, The Boatman, ... Read More »

March 26, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Two iconic Toronto bookstores hit hard times

By Natalie Samson

Two of Toronto's longstanding independent bookstores will face major changes in 2012. This morning, Sue Houghting, owner of The Book Mark in the city's Kingsway neighbourhood, announced she will close shop after 46 years in ... Read More »

January 3, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling

Chinese novel alleged to have stolen from Canada’s “literary elite”

By Stuart Woods

The "Great Chinese Canadian Literary Feud" is now underway, according to a Toronto Star story by Bill Schiller. The author at the centre of the supposed controversy is Toronto's Zhang Ling, whose previous novel, Aftershock, ... Read More »

February 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Toronto Star adopts New York Times books coverage

By Stuart Woods

This Sunday, the Toronto Star will begin carrying content from The New York Times' Sunday book review section. The section will be a 12-page tabloid that Star spokesperson Bob Hepburn describes as an "abridged version" ... Read More »

October 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

“I’ll have a venti mochaccino and an award-winning book, please.”

By Steven W. Beattie

In his memoir On Writing, Stephen King advises aspiring writers to avoid writing in coffee shops. Canadian novelist Corey Redekop, by contrast, admits that "the majority of [his] writing occurs in coffee shops." There is ... Read More »

June 14, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Michael Geist’s covert ties to Amazon

By Stuart Woods

[This post has been updated] The debate surrounding Amazon's planned Canadian expansion has produced many arguments both for (the editorial boards at The Globe and Mail and National Post) and against (the Canadian Booksellers Association, ... Read More »

March 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Readers salivate over Salinger’s unpublished manuscripts

By Steven W. Beattie

J.D. Salinger has been dead a scant five days, but already people are clamouring for his unpublished work to be made available. In a 1974 interview (one of the few the famously reclusive author ever ... Read More »

February 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Robert Munsch’s latest grounded by terrorist threats

By Laura Godfrey

After the Christmas Day terrorist threat aboard a Detroit-bound plane, the public has had to deal with longer wait times, intrusive full-body scanners “ and now the delay of the latest book from Robert Munsch. ... Read More »

January 19, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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