Writers’ Trust turns spotlight on political books
Spurred by the recent federal election, The Writers’ Trust of Canada has partnered with Samara, a non-profit organization that seeks to strengthen citizen engagement in Canada’s democratic system, to...
View ArticleEzra Levant wins Best Political Book contest
The Writers’ Trust of Canada, in collaboration with Samara, has named Ezra Levant’s Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights (McClelland & Stewart, 2009)...
View ArticleNovelist Gil Courtemanche succumbs to cancer
Gil Courtemanche, the journalist and novelist whose best-selling 2000 novel about the Rwandan genocide, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, was made into a movie in 2006, lost a two-year battle with cancer...
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Fall preview 2011: Canadian non-fiction
In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the fall season’s biggest books. POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS With Canada’s combat role in Afghanistan coming to an end this summer, a number of fall...
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Weekend reading list: the top stories from around our offices
Every weekend Q&Q rounds up the highlights from other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. This week’s top stories include tales of suburban migration, fall cooking, and political espionage....
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Spring preview 2012: Canadian non-fiction
In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the spring season’s new books. MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY Revolutionary activity in the Middle East and North Africa has created an appetite for stories...
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Spring preview 2012: international books
In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the spring season’s new books. FICTION Two prolific American literary novelists are set to publish new titles this spring. Nobel Prize and Pulitzer...
View ArticleBook links roundup: E.L. James’ $1-million book deal, the greatest losers in...
E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey sells for $1 million to Random House Jonathan Franzen, John Updike, and Norman Mailer named greatest losers in American literature The Globe and Mail on the gender...
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Richard Gwyn wins $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen prize
Richard Gwyn’s Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two: 1867 – 1891 (Random House Canada), the second volume in the two-part biography of Canada’s first Prime Minister, is...
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D&M’s Trena White lands fellowships at Frankfurt, IFOA
Earlier this week, Q&Q reported that Trena White, publisher at D&M Publishers, has been named the inaugural Canadian editorial fellow for the I.V. Programme, the annual networking event that...
View ArticleNovelist Gil Courtemanche succumbs to cancer
Gil Courtemanche, the journalist and novelist whose best-selling 2000 novel about the Rwandan genocide, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, was made into a movie in 2006, lost a two-year battle with cancer...
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Fall preview 2011: Canadian non-fiction
In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the fall season’s biggest books. POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS With Canada’s combat role in Afghanistan coming to an end this summer, a number of fall...
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Weekend reading list: the top stories from around our offices
Every weekend Q&Q rounds up the highlights from other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. This week’s top stories include tales of suburban migration, fall cooking, and political espionage....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring preview 2012: Canadian non-fiction
In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the spring season’s new books. MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY Revolutionary activity in the Middle East and North Africa has created an appetite for stories...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring preview 2012: international books
In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the spring season’s new books. FICTION Two prolific American literary novelists are set to publish new titles this spring. Nobel Prize and Pulitzer...
View ArticleBook links roundup: E.L. James’ $1-million book deal, the greatest losers in...
E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey sells for $1 million to Random House Jonathan Franzen, John Updike, and Norman Mailer named greatest losers in American literature The Globe and Mail on the gender...
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Richard Gwyn wins $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen prize
Richard Gwyn’s Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two: 1867 – 1891 (Random House Canada), the second volume in the two-part biography of Canada’s first Prime Minister, is...
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D&M’s Trena White lands fellowships at Frankfurt, IFOA
Earlier this week, Q&Q reported that Trena White, publisher at D&M Publishers, has been named the inaugural Canadian editorial fellow for the I.V. Programme, the annual networking event that...
View ArticleCulture vs. commerce
“The Government will assist the book publishing industry…make the transition to the new economy.” Speech from the Throne, February 2001, hinting at a $28-million budgetary windfall for the Book...
View ArticleCarnivocal: A Celebration of Sound Poetry
Sound poetry has more in common with experimental music than verse upon a page: it rewards an open ear and mind, and a playful spirit. Sentences, phrases, and meaning exist, but they are soluble, and...
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