Richard Ford goes Canadiana
HarperCollins Canada announced Thursday that they will be publishing iconic American writer Richard Ford’s new novel, Canada, next May. The novel follows young Dell Parsons as devastating circumstances...
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Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library offers copies of Slaughterhouse-Five to students of Missouri school that pulled the book Finally you’ll be able to swim while reading: the world’s first waterproof book...
View ArticleBook links round-up: the Nabokovia butterfly, literary bandits, and more
Patti Smith to collaborate with playwright John Logan on screenplay of her memoir Just Kids Odd things named after writers After five decades, a book of lost Dr. Seuss stories to hit shelves this...
View ArticleLane Anderson Award shortlist announced
The Fitzhenry Family Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2010 Lane Anderson Award. The prize recognizes two Canadian books – one for adults, one for young readers – published in the field of...
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Event photos: Mixed Type
St. John’s publishers Breakwater Books and Creative Book Publishing joined forces Wednesday night to deliver an evening of spoken word and music. The event, dubbed “Mix Type,” featured hometown writers...
View ArticleCanadian literary event round-up: Aug. 19-25
Here are just a few of the literary events happening across the country in the next week: The People’s Poetry Festival kick-off, featuring Wakefield Brewster, Iqbal (Bob) Haider, Meghan Doraty, David...
View ArticleBook links round-up: hidden meanings, rhetorical devices, and more
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...
View ArticleMurakami novel removed from New Jersey high school reading list
Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s 1987 novel Norwegian Wood has been removed from the summer reading list for students at a New Jersey high school. The move comes only a month after Kurt Vonnegut’s...
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Fall preview 2011: international books
In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the fall season’s biggest books. FICTION Originally excerpted in The Paris Review in 2002, Denis Johnson’s novella Train Dreams (Farrar, Straus and...
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Alternative markets: why publishers are turning to zine fairs to woo new readers
Canzine, the country’s largest festival dedicated to zines and independent culture, happens this Sunday in Toronto (the Vancouver edition is scheduled for Nov. 17). Following the success of last year’s...
View ArticleRichard Ford goes Canadiana
HarperCollins Canada announced Thursday that they will be publishing iconic American writer Richard Ford’s new novel, Canada, next May. The novel follows young Dell Parsons as devastating circumstances...
View ArticleBook links round-up: Vonnegut library strikes back, the end of soggy pages,...
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library offers copies of Slaughterhouse-Five to students of Missouri school that pulled the book Finally you’ll be able to swim while reading: the world’s first waterproof book...
View ArticleBook links round-up: the Nabokovia butterfly, literary bandits, and more
Patti Smith to collaborate with playwright John Logan on screenplay of her memoir Just Kids Odd things named after writers After five decades, a book of lost Dr. Seuss stories to hit shelves this...
View ArticleLane Anderson Award shortlist announced
The Fitzhenry Family Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2010 Lane Anderson Award. The prize recognizes two Canadian books – one for adults, one for young readers – published in the field of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Event photos: Mixed Type
St. John’s publishers Breakwater Books and Creative Book Publishing joined forces Wednesday night to deliver an evening of spoken word and music. The event, dubbed “Mix Type,” featured hometown writers...
View ArticleCanadian literary event round-up: Aug. 19-25
Here are just a few of the literary events happening across the country in the next week: The People’s Poetry Festival kick-off, featuring Wakefield Brewster, Iqbal (Bob) Haider, Meghan Doraty, David...
View ArticleBook links round-up: hidden meanings, rhetorical devices, and more
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...
View ArticleMurakami novel removed from New Jersey high school reading list
Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s 1987 novel Norwegian Wood has been removed from the summer reading list for students at a New Jersey high school. The move comes only a month after Kurt Vonnegut’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fall preview 2011: international books
In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the fall season’s biggest books. FICTION Originally excerpted in The Paris Review in 2002, Denis Johnson‘s novella Train Dreams (Farrar, Straus and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Alternative markets: why publishers are turning to zine fairs to woo new readers
Canzine, the country’s largest festival dedicated to zines and independent culture, happens this Sunday in Toronto (the Vancouver edition is scheduled for Nov. 17). Following the success of last year’s...
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