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IFOA’s International Visitors Programme: the schmooze factor
The 2011 cohort at Niagara Falls (Photo: IFOA) Less than 24 hours into a September business trip to New York City, three people had already asked Iris Tupholme the same question: how could they land an...
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Joseph Boyden’s new novel to examine Canada’s formative years
Joseph Boyden’s writing interweaves the multifarious spirit of Canadian experiences by drawing upon a wealth of northern narratives. His first novel, Three Day Road (Penguin Canada), examines the...
View ArticleThat One Spooky Night
It’s not just free candy and costumes that spur kids to start getting excited about Halloween sometime in mid-January, it’s also the idea that, on this one night, the rules don’t apply and anything can...
View ArticleRainbow Shoes
Hanging around young children makes poets of us all. It is a serious stuffed shirt who can resist riffing on a kid’s name, inventing noises, repeating phrases, asking ridiculous questions, or dredging...
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Alternative markets: why publishers are turning to zine fairs to woo new readers
Canzine, the country’s largest festival dedicated to zines and independent culture, happens this Sunday in Toronto (the Vancouver edition is scheduled for Nov. 17). Following the success of last year’s...
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Shelagh Rogers’ multimedia Northwords project brings city-dwelling authors...
Led by CBC Radio’s Shelagh Rogers, five urban Canadian authors spent a week writing and observing life in Northern Labrador. Northwords, a documentary that captures their experiences, is screening at...
View ArticleWhite Piano
The tone, timbre, and character of instruments change as they age. Amati violins – the oldest in playable condition – produce a depth of sound that comes from being played thousands of times over...
View ArticleThe Dark
The Dark is a fantastic collision of literary phenomena: Lemony Snicket and Caldecott Medal winner Jon Klassen (This Is Not My Hat), who together create a story evoking the spooky old poem “In a Dark,...
View ArticleLittle Cat
Brought back into the world as a single-volume reprint, Little Cat offers “substantially revised” versions of Tamara Faith Berger’s first two novels: 1999’s Lie with Me and 2001’s The Way of the Whore....
View ArticleThe Boundless
While Kenneth Oppel may be known for his brisk plots and inventive premises, he reveals himself as a modern-day Farley Mowat in his latest effort, an all-Canadian thriller set in the late 18oos against...
View ArticleSpring 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… Read More »
View ArticlePenguin pulls out of OverDrive, stops ebook sales to libraries
Penguin Group has announced it will no longer provide ebooks to OverDrive, effective immediately. With the termination of the relationship… Read More »
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling signs deal for an adult novel; Twitter goes hog wild
Five years after finishing life at Hogwarts, J.K. Rowling is back with a new publisher and a book deal for… Read More »
View ArticleBook links roundup: World Book Day, Apple launches comics iBookstore section,...
UNESCO celebrates reading, writers, and illustrators with World Book Day Apple launches comics and graphic novel section in the iBookstore… Read More »
View ArticleBook links roundup: The Lorax loves SUVs, Slate introduces book review...
Happy birthday Dr. Suess: The Lorax film promotion replaces Truffula trees with SUVs Slate introduces monthly review section, tripling its books… Read More »
View ArticleAmazon, the iPad, and the culture of reading in an age of distraction
It’s like trying to cook when there are little children around. That’s the assessment of one David Myers, a 53-year-old… Read More »
View ArticleFlash mob targets Windsor bookshop
(Photo: Cash Mob Windsor) Flash mob, meet the buy local movement. That’s what happened at Juniper Used and Rare Books… Read More »
View ArticleRegina and Okanagan libraries vote to strike
With the dust of the 10-day strike at the Toronto Public Library settling, two other public library systems face the… Read More »
View ArticleBook links roundup: Federal libraries and archives to shut down, Tehran...
Budget cuts mean federal libraries, archives to shut down Tehran International Book Fair cracks down on “harmful titles” Can NFC… Read More »
View ArticleBook links roundup: Winnipeg comedian’s Shades of Grey parody takes off,...
Winnipeg comedian Ryan McMahon’s tweeted novel Powwow Shades of Grey is taking off Target no longer carries the Kobo Touch… Read More »
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