Book links roundup: Barbara Gowdy named Guggenheim fellow, Nigella Lawson’s...
Barbara Gowdy awarded 2012 John Simon Guggenheim fellowship for fiction Nigella Lawson offloads her friend Sophia Waugh’s book on eBay The Guardian explores the cultural evolution of Chinese...
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Toronto Public Library launches TTC book club London Book Fair’s focus on China worrying to free speech activists PBS Newshour interviews attorney Steve Berman, lead counsel in the Apple ebook...
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Azrieli Foundation to launch film series companion to Holocaust memoirs
Series four of the Azrieli Foundation's Holocaust Survivor Memoirs launched in fall 2011. Series five will roll out this spring along with a collection of short films. The Azrieli Foundation, a...
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Atwood, Gibson meet with Windsor Star editorial board
Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson met with the editorial board at the Windsor Star on Thursday to talk ferries, farming, and living anonymously on Pelee Island. The couple stopped in at the newspaper’s...
View ArticleCanadian literary event roundup: June 1-7
Deux Voiliers Publishing open house featuring Brendan Ray, Stephen Lorne Bennett, Chris Turner, and Con Cu, Collected Works Bookstore, Ottawa (June 1, 7 p.m., free) Niagara Literary Arts Festival...
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David Byrne and Win Butler to discuss How Music Works
Librarie Drawn & Quarterly has paired up with POP Montreal’s Symposium to host a unique event that straddles the literary and music worlds. David Byrne, rock legend and author, and Win Butler,...
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Rolex pairs U.K. novelist Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood in mentorship...
Margaret Atwood will spend the next year mentoring U.K. novelist Naomi Alderman. The partnership is a product of the Rolex Arts Initiative, which pairs masters with emerging arts professionals in the...
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Fall preview 2012: Canadian non-fiction, part II
The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there’s no shortage of new releases from marquee names. In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at some of the...
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This weekend in Canadian literary events: Aug. 24-26
Canadians have the chance to meet and see some of their favourite writers, artists, and poets up close and personal at this weekend’s readings and festivals, featured on Q&Q’s events calendar. The...
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Q&A: Emily Pohl-Weary debuts new Toronto reading series
This morning, author Emily Pohl-Weary sent off a draft of her new manuscript, a YA novel titled Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl (to be published by Penguin Canada imprint Razorbill in 2013), just in time...
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