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Designers at the Design Exchange

The Alcuin Awards for book design were officially handed out earlier this year in Vancouver, but the organizers decided to hold a smaller reception in Toronto on July 13 that also coincided with the start ... Read More »

July 25, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Australian booksellers get their numbers crunched to mixed reviews

By Cassandra Drudi

While getting one's jollies from poring over accurate sales data only recently became a favourite activity among Canadian bookfolk, Australia six-year-old book industry sales data program, according to an Australian article, is like many a ... Read More »

July 25, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Take that, Cubans exiles!

By Cassandra Drudi

Miami schoolchildren can get their dose of Cuba after all, the L.A. Times reported today, as "a federal judge Monday ordered the Miami-Dade County School District to restore a children's book about Cuba to school ... Read More »

July 25, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Update: this ain't no turkish delight

By Cassandra Drudi

Bestselling novelist Elif Shafak is merely the latest victim of the trial-happy Turks, who, over the last year, have charged over five dozen writers and journalists under Turkey's Article 301, the vague legislation that seems ... Read More »

July 24, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

The eBook just keeps a-comin'

By Cassandra Drudi

We do everything with our iPods, from watching television shows to storing photos, so it isn't that surprising that reading books on 'em might not be too far behind. The blog engadget has reported that ... Read More »

July 24, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Get in the ring

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a time of increasingly imaginative and/or aggressive marketing efforts -- from holding a book launch at Value Village to spray-painting tigers on sidewalks -- Penguin Canada author Craig Davidson is upping the ante. To ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Wither and die

By Leigh Anne Williams

Francine Prose, whom Quillblog likes a lot, has a new book out called Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them. There's an online-only ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

Fear of Toronto fiction

By Leigh Anne Williams

To mark its (final) Summer Fiction issue, Toronto Life is running a web-only roundtable discussion with three Toronto authors: Shyam Selvadurai, Sheila Heti, and Andrew Pyper. The subject is "Toronto literature," and a couple of ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Toby Young at the Drake

By Q&Q Staff

British author Toby Young appeared at Toronto's Drake Hotel on Tuesday, July 18, to promote his new (and second) memoir, The Sound of No Hands Clapping (HarperCollins). (Photo by Michaela Cornell.) Toby Young, right, with ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Brick Lane inhabitants want Brick Lane: The Movie stopped

By Cassandra Drudi

The east London borough of Tower Hamlets is up in arms again against Booker-nominated author Monica Ali and her novel Brick Lane. Now that a movie's in the making, they're really pissed. According to a ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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