Our brand-new September issue features a cover profile of Miriam Toews, whose new novel, The Flying Troutmans, is set for release next month (and is also reviewed in the issue). Also in September, we look at the succession strategies of four B.C. publishers; offer a close-up on author Rukhsana Khan; look at the issue of booksellers ordering from Ingram in the U.S.; and ask whether Canadian novels are just a little too long. Plus the Fall Announcements, and reviews of new books by Ronald Wright, Helen Humphreys, Joan Barfoot, Joseph Boyden, Rawi Hage, Tish Cohen, Cary Fagan, Polly Horvath, and many more. The full contents can be seen after the jump.
The funny/sad thing
How Miriam Toews’ darkly comic novels made her a star
Plus: The Flying Troutmans reviewed
The art of the deal
Four B.C. publishers – four different succession plans
The long and short of CanLit
Should Canadian houses be publishing shorter novels?
Fall Announcements
Twenty-one pages. Thirty-eight categories. Nearly 1,000 different books. The complete listing of the season’s adult trade titles
FRONTMATTER
- Rukhsana Khan’s circuitous publishing path
- The early days of a self-publishing powerhouse
- Promoting your book, two minutes at a time
- Watch Your Language: If we could talk to the animals
- Cover to Cover: Stunt
- Snapshot: Freehand Books’ Melanie Little
- Quill at Large: Summertime gatherings in Moose Jaw and Vancouver
- Deals Corner: Douglas Coupland tackles McLuhan, and more
NEWS AND FEATURES
The Ingram effect: A short-term pricing solution could have long-term effects on the Canadian book trade
Guest Opinion: Philip Marchand on transitioning from the lit beat to film reviews
REVIEWS
- Coventry by Helen Humphreys
- Exit Lines by Joan Barfoot
- What Is America? by Ronald Wright
Once by Rebecca Rosenblum- Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
- Sir Reginald’s Logbook by Matt Hammill
- Good-Bye Marianne by Irene N. Watts and Kathryn E. Shoemaker
- Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and picture books
BESTSELLERS
Presented by Q&Q and BookNet Canada
THE LAST WORD
Historical novelists owe it to their true-life characters to use their real names, argues Fred Stenson
