Watch for a cover profile of Canada Reads champ Paul Quarrington in the April issue of Quill & Quire, where Quarrington talks candidly about how his personal life affected his new novel, The Ravine. Also in the April issue: a look at the difficulties involved in translating international writing in Canada; a profile of poet and editor Kevin Connolly; and a closeup of Canada’s go-to agent for graphic novelists. Plus: the Children’s Announcements (listing biblio info for spring 2008 kids’ books) and reviews of 40 new titles by Mark Kingwell, Taras Grescoe, Steven Galloway, Emma Donoghue, Dennis Lee, and Marthe Jocelyn. The full table of contents appears after the jump.
In the April 2008 issue of Q&Q:
Out of the ravine
How Canada Reads champ Paul Quarrington mined his personal problems for his new novel
Moving pictures
Meet the go-to agent for Canada’s graphic novelists
Stuck at the border
How do Canadian publishers translate international writing? Very frugally – and very rarely
Plus: Stephen Henighan on why more Canadian authors should be translators
Kids’ Announcements
The complete listings of spring’s Canadian children’s books
FRONTMATTER
- Kevin Connolly, indie CanLit’s jack of all trades
- Carmine Starnino’s epitaph for epigraphs
- Watch Your Language: Solid waste happens
- Cover to Cover: Dry Spring
- Snapshot: Jim Polk
- Deals Corner: Ted Rogers, Susan Musgrave, and more
- Local Buzz: The Sawmill Boys, P.O.W.’s and Conscientious Objectors
NEWS AND FEATURES
- Unconventional publishing: industry savvy meets self-publishing
- Bill Hushion’s new role at Fitzhenry & Whiteside
- Highlights from Q&Q Omni
REVIEWS
- The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
- Concrete Reveries by Mark Kingwell
- Bottomfeeder by Taras Grescoe
- Carnivore Chic by Susan Bourette
Join the Revolution, Comrade by Charles Foran- Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
- The Master’s Apprentice by Rick Jacobson and Laura Fernandez
- A Day with Nellie by Marthe Jocelyn
- The Rocking Chair and This Little Puppy by Dennis Lee and Nora Hilb
- Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and picture books
BESTSELLERS
Presented by Q&Q and BookNet Canada
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[...] April Q&Q cover boy and recent Canada Reads champ Paul Quarrington launched his new novel, The Ravine (Random House Canada), at an event hosted by Pages Books & Magazines and This Is Not A Reading Series at The Gladstone Hotel in Toronto on March 19. (All photos by Chris Reed.) [...]
[...] In the April 2008 issue of Q&Q: [...]