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Literary-minded installations to check out at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche‚ Toronto's massive annual overnight art show that draws an estimated one million-plus people each year‚ is taking place at locations across the city, starting at sundown on Oct. 1 until sunrise on Oct. ... Read More »

September 27, 2016 | Filed under: Book culture, Events

Spaces: Size matters at the Penguin Shop

By Conan Tobias

Arguably, no publisher in the world has the iconic cachet of Penguin, the legendary British house founded by Sir Allen Lane in 1935. Lane’s goal was to produce affordable mass-market paperbacks that were of higher ... Read More »

September 7, 2016 | Filed under: Bookselling

Ann Y.K. Choi‚ Cordelia Strube among Toronto Book Awards finalists

By Becky Robertson

The City of Toronto and the Toronto Public Library have revealed the finalists for this year's Toronto Book Awards‚ recognizing titles that speak to the city‚ its people‚ and its heritage: Howard Akler‚ Men of ... Read More »

August 25, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

2016 Toronto Book Awards judges announced

By Becky Robertson

The judges of this year's Toronto Book Awards‚ honouring the best titles evocative of the city and its culture‚ have been announced. Selecting this year's finalists and‚ ultimately‚ winner are Irfan Ali, RBC Bronwen Wallace Award ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Glad Day Bookshop reveals new address

By Becky Robertson

Toronto's Glad Day Bookshop has announced it will relocate to 499 Church Street in the Church-Wellesley Village, following news that the store was crowdsourcing to fund a move from the second-floor Yonge Street location it has occupied since ... Read More »

July 25, 2016 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news, Industry news

Awards: Kevin Hardcastle and Soraya Peerbaye win Trillium Book Awards

By Becky Robertson

Toronto writers Kevin Hardcastle and Soraya Peerbaye were named the winners of this year's Trillium Book Awards on June 22, at a ceremony held at the Toronto Reference Library. Hardcastle was awarded the $20,000 fiction award ... Read More »

June 23, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Book-launch venue hop: Toronto’s Monarch Tavern

By Sarah Kester

Toronto’s Monarch Tavern was once frequented by organized crime. Today, it’s home to nothing more sinister than a poetry reading The Monarch Tavern, hidden on a residential street in Toronto’s Little Italy, is one of ... Read More »

January 25, 2016 | Filed under: Book culture

Spaces: Coach House Books

By Q&Q Staff

A 19th-century hayloft today acts as the home of Coach House Books, one of Canada’s most important labs of sentence structure In 1890, the brick coach house located on what is now known as bpNichol ... Read More »

January 13, 2016 | Filed under: Book culture

Dr. Seuss anniversary exhibition comes to Toronto

By Becky Robertson

Toronto’s Liss Gallery is hosting an exhibition to honour the 25th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go! – the last book published before the author’s death in 1991 – from Dec. 4 ... Read More »

November 3, 2015 | Filed under: Events

Anne Michaels named Toronto’s new poet laureate

By Becky Robertson

Award-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels has been chosen to serve as Toronto’s fifth poet laureate, beginning in November. Michaels is the author of five poetry collections and two novels and has received numerous accolades, ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

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