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Book clubs: scourge of the reading life

The CBC's recently relaunched arts website includes a screed by writer Li Robbins on the many evils of book clubs. Her point seems to be that they destroy the individual freedom and essentially solitary pleasure ... Read More »

January 31, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

An academic scolding for Canada Reads

By Leigh Anne Williams

With the CBC's fourth annual Canada Reads program set to kick off on Feb. 21, a recent editorial on the Canada Reads phenomenon in the scholarly journal Canadian Literature is well timed. And writer Laura ... Read More »

January 31, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Into the mythic with Pierre Berton

By Leigh Anne Williams

Geist magazine's Stephen Osborne asks why certain writers -- Pierre Berton chief among them -- have traditionally been considered tragically unhip by certain literati, despite their popular appeal. And in "certain literati" Osborne includes a ... Read More »

January 24, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Remembering Richard Outram

By Leigh Anne Williams

Ontario poet Richard Outram, depressed after the death of his wife, committed suicide last week, writes George Murray on his Bookninja blog. The 74-year-old Outram, a widely admired "poet's poet," was also a friend and ... Read More »

January 24, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Palaces of light

By Leigh Anne Williams

Former Q&Q staff writer Devin Crawley is now maintaining his own blog, Enlightened Librarian, which features some wonderful writing about libraries, books, buildings, communities, and life in Ottawa. Here's a sample: a consideration of "the ... Read More »

January 20, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

On choosing the best book of 2004

By Leigh Anne Williams

Over on the Dooney's Cafe site, Stan Persky has chosen Orhan Pamuk's Snow as his favourite book of 2004. But before explaining why, he has some choice words on the whole best-books phenomenon -- as ... Read More »

January 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Unotchit? We no get it

By Leigh Anne Williams

Margaret Atwood's invention of a remote book-signing machine -- first reported in the January issue of Q&Q and later picked up by The Globe and Mail and The Guardian, among others -- is now starting ... Read More »

January 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Litmag lovefest

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Danforth Review has a series of brief interviews with the editors of three Canadian literary journals: Maisonneuve, Matrix, and The Malahat Review.Matrix's Jon Paul Fiorentino has kind things to say about Canadian small presses ... Read More »

December 13, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Sexing it up

By Leigh Anne Williams

Penguin U.K.'s let's-sex-up-reading campaign from earlier this year is still drawing notice. The latest example is this piece from the online B.C. magazine The Tyee. Writer Shannon Rupp has a few promising ideas on how ... Read More »

December 13, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Money changes everything

By Leigh Anne Williams

The best-of-intentions book deal that just doesn't work out is a common occupational hazard for both authors and publishers. But what happens when the publisher wants its advance back, and the author says he doesn't ... Read More »

December 6, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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