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QUILL AND QUIRE
Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
THIS EDEN | QUILL AND QUIRE This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” WILL FERGUSON, KATRINA ONSTAD AMONG CRIME WRITERS OF The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the winners of their Awards of Excellence in Crime Writing. The annual awards, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, recognize excellence in Canadian crime nonfiction and mystery, crime, and suspense fiction over nine categories. The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony on May 27.. This year’s winners are: DRIVEN: THE SECRET LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result brings these drivers to life in a way that should make any reader more mindful when they next take a seat in REMEMBERING MARGARET-OLEMAUN POKIAK-FENTON, CHILDREN'S Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21. She was 84 years old. Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share herINDIANS ON VACATION
Indians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of Indians TATTYCORAM | QUILL AND QUIRE Tattycoram is a memorable creature who inhabits a subplot in Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit, a novel about the myriad ways humans find to imprison themselves and others. Tatty’s real name (and all this naming stuff is crucial) is Harriet Beadle, and she comes from theLEAR'S SHADOW
Lear’s Shadow. by Claire Holden Rothman. At the heart of King Lear is the question of identity. Can you be a king if you’ve given away your kingdom? Lear’s fool says no, and in response to the king’s question, “Who is it that can tell me who I am?” he answers,“Lear’s
TYLER LEBLANC A DOUBLE-WINNER AT ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced the evening of May 13 in a virtual ceremony.. Halifax’s Tyler LeBlanc won for both historical writing and non-fiction for Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Goose Lane Editions).The book looks at the 18th-century exile of the Acadian people through LeBlanc’s own family’s experience. JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
QUILL AND QUIRE
Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
THIS EDEN | QUILL AND QUIRE This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” WILL FERGUSON, KATRINA ONSTAD AMONG CRIME WRITERS OF The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the winners of their Awards of Excellence in Crime Writing. The annual awards, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, recognize excellence in Canadian crime nonfiction and mystery, crime, and suspense fiction over nine categories. The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony on May 27.. This year’s winners are: DRIVEN: THE SECRET LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result brings these drivers to life in a way that should make any reader more mindful when they next take a seat in REMEMBERING MARGARET-OLEMAUN POKIAK-FENTON, CHILDREN'S Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21. She was 84 years old. Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share herINDIANS ON VACATION
Indians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of Indians TATTYCORAM | QUILL AND QUIRE Tattycoram is a memorable creature who inhabits a subplot in Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit, a novel about the myriad ways humans find to imprison themselves and others. Tatty’s real name (and all this naming stuff is crucial) is Harriet Beadle, and she comes from theLEAR'S SHADOW
Lear’s Shadow. by Claire Holden Rothman. At the heart of King Lear is the question of identity. Can you be a king if you’ve given away your kingdom? Lear’s fool says no, and in response to the king’s question, “Who is it that can tell me who I am?” he answers,“Lear’s
TYLER LEBLANC A DOUBLE-WINNER AT ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced the evening of May 13 in a virtual ceremony.. Halifax’s Tyler LeBlanc won for both historical writing and non-fiction for Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Goose Lane Editions).The book looks at the 18th-century exile of the Acadian people through LeBlanc’s own family’s experience. JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
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Sonata for Fish and Boy, the first solo picture book by Toronto-based illustrator Milan Pavlovi ć, is a well-orchestrated, wordless appreciation of music and friendship.In a riverside park, a mop-haired child plays a violin with closed-eyed, fully immersed concentration. Tuckered from practising, the boy stretches out on the bench for asnooze.
THE CASE FOR BASIC INCOME: FREEDOM, SECURITY, JUSTICE Persistent poverty and stagnant wages. The rise of precarious, unsatisfying work. A job market upended by a global pandemic. Recipients of social-assistance benefits subject to increasing surveillance and suspicion. How could a guaranteed basic income beginto
RITA WONG: A POET'S CALL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION These days Rita Wong isn’t writing poetry. Poetry has come to her in waves at different points in her life – fitting for a poet who has written so much about water. Her forthcoming selected works, Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong (Wilfrid Laurier University Press),edited by Nicholas
MILAN PAVLOVIĆ
Book Reviews: Milan Pavlović . Read reviews of books by Milan Pavlović. Sonata for Fish and Boy ETHICAL REMEMBERING: LISA BIRD-WILSON WRITES "THE HISTORY When I was in the midst of working on my 2016 poetry collection, The Red Files (Nightwood Editions), which reflects on the legacy of the residential school system – its impacts on families and histories – I had a conversation over casual drinks with friends of friends, people I didn’t know. The topic arose that I was a writer (none ofthem were).
ONE STORY, ONE SONG
One Story, One Song comprises brief ruminations (most are shorter than three pages) on various topics, many inspired by an anecdote or observation from the author’s life. He talks about characters met while running a rooming house for former street people with his wife, Debra Powell. Tales of eagles, bears, fish, and other nonhuman life A SHORT HISTORY OF INDIANS IN CANADA A Short History of Indians in Canada. by Thomas King. In his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures – published as the impressive The Truth About Stories – writer and academic Thomas King outlined a poetics of native narrative. It was an expansive perspective, incorporating both the macro (the inherent power of story and storytelling to shape theworld
JONARNO LAWSON AND QIN LENG (ILL.) Book Reviews: JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.) Read reviews of books by JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.). Over the Shop JAMIE SWIFT AND ELAINE POWER Book Reviews: Jamie Swift and Elaine Power . Read reviews of books by Jamie Swift and Elaine Power. The Case for Basic Income: Freedom,Security, Justice
STRONG WOMEN STORIES: NATIVE VISION AND COMMUNITY SURVIVAL Strong Women Stories picks up where Kim Anderson’s last book left off. In A Recognition of Being, the Cree/Metis social- and health-policy analyst detailed the ways in which native women have been stereotyped and stripped of power, and the steps such women could take to reclaim a positive self-image.In that book, Anderson spoke with Bonita Lawrence, now a Mi’Kmaq professor of women’sQUILL AND QUIRE
Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
THIS EDEN | QUILL AND QUIRE This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” REMEMBERING MARGARET-OLEMAUN POKIAK-FENTON, CHILDREN'S Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21. She was 84 years old. Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share her WILL FERGUSON, KATRINA ONSTAD AMONG CRIME WRITERS OF The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the winners of their Awards of Excellence in Crime Writing. The annual awards, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, recognize excellence in Canadian crime nonfiction and mystery, crime, and suspense fiction over nine categories. The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony on May 27.. This year’s winners are: DRIVEN: THE SECRET LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result brings these drivers to life in a way that should make any reader more mindful when they next take a seat inINDIANS ON VACATION
Indians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of Indians TYLER LEBLANC A DOUBLE-WINNER AT ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced the evening of May 13 in a virtual ceremony.. Halifax’s Tyler LeBlanc won for both historical writing and non-fiction for Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Goose Lane Editions).The book looks at the 18th-century exile of the Acadian people through LeBlanc’s own family’s experience. TATTYCORAM | QUILL AND QUIRE Tattycoram is a memorable creature who inhabits a subplot in Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit, a novel about the myriad ways humans find to imprison themselves and others. Tatty’s real name (and all this naming stuff is crucial) is Harriet Beadle, and she comes from theLEAR'S SHADOW
Lear’s Shadow. by Claire Holden Rothman. At the heart of King Lear is the question of identity. Can you be a king if you’ve given away your kingdom? Lear’s fool says no, and in response to the king’s question, “Who is it that can tell me who I am?” he answers,“Lear’s
JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
QUILL AND QUIRE
Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
THIS EDEN | QUILL AND QUIRE This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” REMEMBERING MARGARET-OLEMAUN POKIAK-FENTON, CHILDREN'S Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21. She was 84 years old. Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share her WILL FERGUSON, KATRINA ONSTAD AMONG CRIME WRITERS OF The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the winners of their Awards of Excellence in Crime Writing. The annual awards, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, recognize excellence in Canadian crime nonfiction and mystery, crime, and suspense fiction over nine categories. The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony on May 27.. This year’s winners are: DRIVEN: THE SECRET LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result brings these drivers to life in a way that should make any reader more mindful when they next take a seat inINDIANS ON VACATION
Indians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of Indians TYLER LEBLANC A DOUBLE-WINNER AT ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced the evening of May 13 in a virtual ceremony.. Halifax’s Tyler LeBlanc won for both historical writing and non-fiction for Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Goose Lane Editions).The book looks at the 18th-century exile of the Acadian people through LeBlanc’s own family’s experience. TATTYCORAM | QUILL AND QUIRE Tattycoram is a memorable creature who inhabits a subplot in Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit, a novel about the myriad ways humans find to imprison themselves and others. Tatty’s real name (and all this naming stuff is crucial) is Harriet Beadle, and she comes from theLEAR'S SHADOW
Lear’s Shadow. by Claire Holden Rothman. At the heart of King Lear is the question of identity. Can you be a king if you’ve given away your kingdom? Lear’s fool says no, and in response to the king’s question, “Who is it that can tell me who I am?” he answers,“Lear’s
JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
OVER THE SHOP
Sonata for Fish and Boy, the first solo picture book by Toronto-based illustrator Milan Pavlovi ć, is a well-orchestrated, wordless appreciation of music and friendship.In a riverside park, a mop-haired child plays a violin with closed-eyed, fully immersed concentration. Tuckered from practising, the boy stretches out on the bench for asnooze.
THE CASE FOR BASIC INCOME: FREEDOM, SECURITY, JUSTICE Persistent poverty and stagnant wages. The rise of precarious, unsatisfying work. A job market upended by a global pandemic. Recipients of social-assistance benefits subject to increasing surveillance and suspicion. How could a guaranteed basic income beginto
RITA WONG: A POET'S CALL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION These days Rita Wong isn’t writing poetry. Poetry has come to her in waves at different points in her life – fitting for a poet who has written so much about water. Her forthcoming selected works, Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong (Wilfrid Laurier University Press),edited by Nicholas
MILAN PAVLOVIĆ
Book Reviews: Milan Pavlović . Read reviews of books by Milan Pavlović. Sonata for Fish and Boy ETHICAL REMEMBERING: LISA BIRD-WILSON WRITES "THE HISTORY 1 day ago · When I was in the midst of working on my 2016 poetry collection, The Red Files (Nightwood Editions), which reflects on the legacy of the residential school system – its impacts on families and histories – I had a conversation over casual drinks with friends of friends, people I didn’t know. The topic arose that I was a writer (none of them were).ONE STORY, ONE SONG
One Story, One Song comprises brief ruminations (most are shorter than three pages) on various topics, many inspired by an anecdote or observation from the author’s life. He talks about characters met while running a rooming house for former street people with his wife, Debra Powell. Tales of eagles, bears, fish, and other nonhuman life A SHORT HISTORY OF INDIANS IN CANADA A Short History of Indians in Canada. by Thomas King. In his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures – published as the impressive The Truth About Stories – writer and academic Thomas King outlined a poetics of native narrative. It was an expansive perspective, incorporating both the macro (the inherent power of story and storytelling to shape theworld
JONARNO LAWSON AND QIN LENG (ILL.) Book Reviews: JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.) Read reviews of books by JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.). Over the Shop JAMIE SWIFT AND ELAINE POWER Book Reviews: Jamie Swift and Elaine Power . Read reviews of books by Jamie Swift and Elaine Power. The Case for Basic Income: Freedom,Security, Justice
LIFE ON THE REFRIGERATOR DOOR The form of Life on the Refrigerator Door, Alice Kuipers’ first novel, is not exactly a standard one: the entire book consists of notes that appear on a fridge over the course of nine months. The fridge in question belongs to 15-year-old Claire and her mother, a single parent who works long, erratic hours as a doctor in the maternity ward of a local hospital.QUILL AND QUIRE
Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
THIS EDEN | QUILL AND QUIRE This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” REMEMBERING MARGARET-OLEMAUN POKIAK-FENTON, CHILDREN'S Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21. She was 84 years old. Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share her WILL FERGUSON, KATRINA ONSTAD AMONG CRIME WRITERS OF The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the winners of their Awards of Excellence in Crime Writing. The annual awards, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, recognize excellence in Canadian crime nonfiction and mystery, crime, and suspense fiction over nine categories. The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony on May 27.. This year’s winners are: DRIVEN: THE SECRET LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result brings these drivers to life in a way that should make any reader more mindful when they next take a seat inINDIANS ON VACATION
Indians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of Indians TYLER LEBLANC A DOUBLE-WINNER AT ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced the evening of May 13 in a virtual ceremony.. Halifax’s Tyler LeBlanc won for both historical writing and non-fiction for Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Goose Lane Editions).The book looks at the 18th-century exile of the Acadian people through LeBlanc’s own family’s experience. TATTYCORAM | QUILL AND QUIRE Tattycoram is a memorable creature who inhabits a subplot in Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit, a novel about the myriad ways humans find to imprison themselves and others. Tatty’s real name (and all this naming stuff is crucial) is Harriet Beadle, and she comes from theLEAR'S SHADOW
Lear’s Shadow. by Claire Holden Rothman. At the heart of King Lear is the question of identity. Can you be a king if you’ve given away your kingdom? Lear’s fool says no, and in response to the king’s question, “Who is it that can tell me who I am?” he answers,“Lear’s
JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
QUILL AND QUIRE
Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
THIS EDEN | QUILL AND QUIRE This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” REMEMBERING MARGARET-OLEMAUN POKIAK-FENTON, CHILDREN'S Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21. She was 84 years old. Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share her WILL FERGUSON, KATRINA ONSTAD AMONG CRIME WRITERS OF The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the winners of their Awards of Excellence in Crime Writing. The annual awards, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, recognize excellence in Canadian crime nonfiction and mystery, crime, and suspense fiction over nine categories. The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony on May 27.. This year’s winners are: DRIVEN: THE SECRET LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result brings these drivers to life in a way that should make any reader more mindful when they next take a seat inINDIANS ON VACATION
Indians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of Indians TYLER LEBLANC A DOUBLE-WINNER AT ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced the evening of May 13 in a virtual ceremony.. Halifax’s Tyler LeBlanc won for both historical writing and non-fiction for Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Goose Lane Editions).The book looks at the 18th-century exile of the Acadian people through LeBlanc’s own family’s experience. TATTYCORAM | QUILL AND QUIRE Tattycoram is a memorable creature who inhabits a subplot in Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit, a novel about the myriad ways humans find to imprison themselves and others. Tatty’s real name (and all this naming stuff is crucial) is Harriet Beadle, and she comes from theLEAR'S SHADOW
Lear’s Shadow. by Claire Holden Rothman. At the heart of King Lear is the question of identity. Can you be a king if you’ve given away your kingdom? Lear’s fool says no, and in response to the king’s question, “Who is it that can tell me who I am?” he answers,“Lear’s
JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
OVER THE SHOP
Sonata for Fish and Boy, the first solo picture book by Toronto-based illustrator Milan Pavlovi ć, is a well-orchestrated, wordless appreciation of music and friendship.In a riverside park, a mop-haired child plays a violin with closed-eyed, fully immersed concentration. Tuckered from practising, the boy stretches out on the bench for asnooze.
THE CASE FOR BASIC INCOME: FREEDOM, SECURITY, JUSTICE 1 day ago · Persistent poverty and stagnant wages. The rise of precarious, unsatisfying work. A job market upended by a global pandemic. Recipients of social-assistance benefits subject to increasing surveillance and suspicion. How could a guaranteed basicincome begin to
RITA WONG: A POET'S CALL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION These days Rita Wong isn’t writing poetry. Poetry has come to her in waves at different points in her life – fitting for a poet who has written so much about water. Her forthcoming selected works, Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong (Wilfrid Laurier University Press),edited by Nicholas
MILAN PAVLOVIĆ
1 day ago · Book Reviews: Milan Pavlović . Read reviews of books by Milan Pavlović. Sonata for Fish and Boy ETHICAL REMEMBERING: LISA BIRD-WILSON WRITES "THE HISTORY 1 day ago · When I was in the midst of working on my 2016 poetry collection, The Red Files (Nightwood Editions), which reflects on the legacy of the residential school system – its impacts on families and histories – I had a conversation over casual drinks with friends of friends, people I didn’t know. The topic arose that I was a writer (none of them were). ANAKANA SCHOFIELD WINS €15,000 IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR Irish-Canadian novelist Anakana Schofield has won the €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. Schofield won the award for Bina: A Novel in Warnings (Knopf Canada), a novel comprised of the scribbles the titular character made on the backs of envelopes, receipts, and other scraps of paper as she grieves after her best friend’s death. The book was acquired by Little, Brown forONE STORY, ONE SONG
One Story, One Song comprises brief ruminations (most are shorter than three pages) on various topics, many inspired by an anecdote or observation from the author’s life. He talks about characters met while running a rooming house for former street people with his wife, Debra Powell. Tales of eagles, bears, fish, and other nonhuman life A SHORT HISTORY OF INDIANS IN CANADA A Short History of Indians in Canada. by Thomas King. In his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures – published as the impressive The Truth About Stories – writer and academic Thomas King outlined a poetics of native narrative. It was an expansive perspective, incorporating both the macro (the inherent power of story and storytelling to shape theworld
JONARNO LAWSON AND QIN LENG (ILL.) 1 day ago · Book Reviews: JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.) Read reviews of books by JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.). Over the Shop JAMIE SWIFT AND ELAINE POWER 1 day ago · Book Reviews: Jamie Swift and Elaine Power . Read reviews of books by Jamie Swift and Elaine Power. The Case for Basic Income: Freedom, Security, JusticeQUILL AND QUIRE
Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
ETHICAL REMEMBERING: LISA BIRD-WILSON WRITES "THE HISTORY 3 hours ago · When I was in the midst of working on my 2016 poetry collection, The Red Files (Nightwood Editions), which reflects on the legacy of the residential school system – its impacts on families and histories – I had a conversation over casual drinks with friends of friends, people I didn’t know. The topic arose that I was a writer (none of them were). THE SON OF THE HOUSE The debut novel by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, who splits her time between Halifax and Lagos, is powerful and nuanced feminist fiction.. The Son of the House begins when Nwabulu and Julie, two women from different classes of Nigerian society, are kidnapped and held hostage together; from this narrative setup, the characters then share the stories of their lives with each other – and with THIS EDEN | QUILL AND QUIRE This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” REMEMBERING MARGARET-OLEMAUN POKIAK-FENTON, CHILDREN'S Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21. She was 84 years old. Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share her DRIVEN: THE SECRET LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result brings these drivers to life in a way that should make any reader more mindful when they next take a seat in JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
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Monkey Beach is Robinson’s command performance, set in her home town of Kitamaat Village, on the coast of B.C.: “If your finger is on Prince Rupert or Terrace, you are too far north. If you are pointing to Bella Coola or Ocean Falls, you are too far south.”. The novel is told by Haisla teenager Lisamarie Hill, whose Olympic hopeful TYLER LEBLANC A DOUBLE-WINNER AT ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced the evening of May 13 in a virtual ceremony.. Halifax’s Tyler LeBlanc won for both historical writing and non-fiction for Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Goose Lane Editions).The book looks at the 18th-century exile of the Acadian people through LeBlanc’s own family’s experience. REMEMBERING CANADIAN OXFORD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KATHERINE Katherine Barber, editor-in-chief of The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, died in Toronto on April 24 at the age of 61.Barber led Oxford University Press Canada’s dictionary division from 1991 through 2008, publishing two editions of The Canadian Oxford Dictionary.. According to her obituary, “Katherine was diagnosed with a particularly virulent and rapid form of brain cancer that took herlife
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Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
ETHICAL REMEMBERING: LISA BIRD-WILSON WRITES "THE HISTORY 3 hours ago · When I was in the midst of working on my 2016 poetry collection, The Red Files (Nightwood Editions), which reflects on the legacy of the residential school system – its impacts on families and histories – I had a conversation over casual drinks with friends of friends, people I didn’t know. The topic arose that I was a writer (none of them were). THE SON OF THE HOUSE The debut novel by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, who splits her time between Halifax and Lagos, is powerful and nuanced feminist fiction.. The Son of the House begins when Nwabulu and Julie, two women from different classes of Nigerian society, are kidnapped and held hostage together; from this narrative setup, the characters then share the stories of their lives with each other – and with THIS EDEN | QUILL AND QUIRE This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” REMEMBERING MARGARET-OLEMAUN POKIAK-FENTON, CHILDREN'S Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21. She was 84 years old. Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share her DRIVEN: THE SECRET LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result brings these drivers to life in a way that should make any reader more mindful when they next take a seat in JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
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Monkey Beach is Robinson’s command performance, set in her home town of Kitamaat Village, on the coast of B.C.: “If your finger is on Prince Rupert or Terrace, you are too far north. If you are pointing to Bella Coola or Ocean Falls, you are too far south.”. The novel is told by Haisla teenager Lisamarie Hill, whose Olympic hopeful TYLER LEBLANC A DOUBLE-WINNER AT ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced the evening of May 13 in a virtual ceremony.. Halifax’s Tyler LeBlanc won for both historical writing and non-fiction for Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Goose Lane Editions).The book looks at the 18th-century exile of the Acadian people through LeBlanc’s own family’s experience. REMEMBERING CANADIAN OXFORD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KATHERINE Katherine Barber, editor-in-chief of The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, died in Toronto on April 24 at the age of 61.Barber led Oxford University Press Canada’s dictionary division from 1991 through 2008, publishing two editions of The Canadian Oxford Dictionary.. According to her obituary, “Katherine was diagnosed with a particularly virulent and rapid form of brain cancer that took herlife
REVIEWS | QUILL AND QUIRE By Karleen Pendleton Jiménez and Gabriela Godoy (ill.) For a kid in Los Angeles in 1984, their street can be their whole world. In this illustrated chapter book, that’s precisely what the muddy paradise of Muscatel Avenue is for Alex and Wolf when Read More ». JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Editorial, Design, and Production Coordinator University of Toronto Press. Toronto Full-time. May, 21. Senior Marketing Manager Simon and Schuster Canada. Toronto Full-time. May, 21. Sales Coordinator Ampersand Canada's Book & Gift Agency Inc. Toronto Full-time. May, 17.OVER THE SHOP
Sonata for Fish and Boy, the first solo picture book by Toronto-based illustrator Milan Pavlovi ć, is a well-orchestrated, wordless appreciation of music and friendship.In a riverside park, a mop-haired child plays a violin with closed-eyed, fully immersed concentration. Tuckered from practising, the boy stretches out on the bench for asnooze.
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RITA WONG: A POET'S CALL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION These days Rita Wong isn’t writing poetry. Poetry has come to her in waves at different points in her life – fitting for a poet who has written so much about water. Her forthcoming selected works, Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong (Wilfrid Laurier University Press),edited by Nicholas
ETHICAL REMEMBERING: LISA BIRD-WILSON WRITES "THE HISTORY 3 hours ago · When I was in the midst of working on my 2016 poetry collection, The Red Files (Nightwood Editions), which reflects on the legacy of the residential school system – its impacts on families and histories – I had a conversation over casual drinks with friends of friends, people I didn’t know. The topic arose that I was a writer (none of them were).MILAN PAVLOVIĆ
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Monkey Beach is Robinson’s command performance, set in her home town of Kitamaat Village, on the coast of B.C.: “If your finger is on Prince Rupert or Terrace, you are too far north. If you are pointing to Bella Coola or Ocean Falls, you are too far south.”. The novel is told by Haisla teenager Lisamarie Hill, whose Olympic hopeful JONARNO LAWSON AND QIN LENG (ILL.) 8 hours ago · Book Reviews: JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.) Read reviews of books by JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.). Over the ShopPOEM IN MY POCKET
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Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
ETHICAL REMEMBERING: LISA BIRD-WILSON WRITES "THE HISTORY 3 hours ago · When I was in the midst of working on my 2016 poetry collection, The Red Files (Nightwood Editions), which reflects on the legacy of the residential school system – its impacts on families and histories – I had a conversation over casual drinks with friends of friends, people I didn’t know. The topic arose that I was a writer (none of them were). THE SON OF THE HOUSE The debut novel by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, who splits her time between Halifax and Lagos, is powerful and nuanced feminist fiction.. The Son of the House begins when Nwabulu and Julie, two women from different classes of Nigerian society, are kidnapped and held hostage together; from this narrative setup, the characters then share the stories of their lives with each other – and with THIS EDEN | QUILL AND QUIRE This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” REMEMBERING MARGARET-OLEMAUN POKIAK-FENTON, CHILDREN'S Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21. She was 84 years old. Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share her DRIVEN: THE SECRET LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result brings these drivers to life in a way that should make any reader more mindful when they next take a seat in JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
MONKEY BEACH
Monkey Beach is Robinson’s command performance, set in her home town of Kitamaat Village, on the coast of B.C.: “If your finger is on Prince Rupert or Terrace, you are too far north. If you are pointing to Bella Coola or Ocean Falls, you are too far south.”. The novel is told by Haisla teenager Lisamarie Hill, whose Olympic hopeful TYLER LEBLANC A DOUBLE-WINNER AT ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced the evening of May 13 in a virtual ceremony.. Halifax’s Tyler LeBlanc won for both historical writing and non-fiction for Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Goose Lane Editions).The book looks at the 18th-century exile of the Acadian people through LeBlanc’s own family’s experience. REMEMBERING CANADIAN OXFORD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KATHERINE Katherine Barber, editor-in-chief of The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, died in Toronto on April 24 at the age of 61.Barber led Oxford University Press Canada’s dictionary division from 1991 through 2008, publishing two editions of The Canadian Oxford Dictionary.. According to her obituary, “Katherine was diagnosed with a particularly virulent and rapid form of brain cancer that took herlife
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Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
ETHICAL REMEMBERING: LISA BIRD-WILSON WRITES "THE HISTORY 3 hours ago · When I was in the midst of working on my 2016 poetry collection, The Red Files (Nightwood Editions), which reflects on the legacy of the residential school system – its impacts on families and histories – I had a conversation over casual drinks with friends of friends, people I didn’t know. The topic arose that I was a writer (none of them were). THE SON OF THE HOUSE The debut novel by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, who splits her time between Halifax and Lagos, is powerful and nuanced feminist fiction.. The Son of the House begins when Nwabulu and Julie, two women from different classes of Nigerian society, are kidnapped and held hostage together; from this narrative setup, the characters then share the stories of their lives with each other – and with THIS EDEN | QUILL AND QUIRE This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” REMEMBERING MARGARET-OLEMAUN POKIAK-FENTON, CHILDREN'S Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21. She was 84 years old. Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share her DRIVEN: THE SECRET LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result brings these drivers to life in a way that should make any reader more mindful when they next take a seat in JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
MONKEY BEACH
Monkey Beach is Robinson’s command performance, set in her home town of Kitamaat Village, on the coast of B.C.: “If your finger is on Prince Rupert or Terrace, you are too far north. If you are pointing to Bella Coola or Ocean Falls, you are too far south.”. The novel is told by Haisla teenager Lisamarie Hill, whose Olympic hopeful TYLER LEBLANC A DOUBLE-WINNER AT ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced the evening of May 13 in a virtual ceremony.. Halifax’s Tyler LeBlanc won for both historical writing and non-fiction for Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Goose Lane Editions).The book looks at the 18th-century exile of the Acadian people through LeBlanc’s own family’s experience. REMEMBERING CANADIAN OXFORD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KATHERINE Katherine Barber, editor-in-chief of The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, died in Toronto on April 24 at the age of 61.Barber led Oxford University Press Canada’s dictionary division from 1991 through 2008, publishing two editions of The Canadian Oxford Dictionary.. According to her obituary, “Katherine was diagnosed with a particularly virulent and rapid form of brain cancer that took herlife
REVIEWS | QUILL AND QUIRE By Karleen Pendleton Jiménez and Gabriela Godoy (ill.) For a kid in Los Angeles in 1984, their street can be their whole world. In this illustrated chapter book, that’s precisely what the muddy paradise of Muscatel Avenue is for Alex and Wolf when Read More ». JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Editorial, Design, and Production Coordinator University of Toronto Press. Toronto Full-time. May, 21. Senior Marketing Manager Simon and Schuster Canada. Toronto Full-time. May, 21. Sales Coordinator Ampersand Canada's Book & Gift Agency Inc. Toronto Full-time. May, 17.OVER THE SHOP
Sonata for Fish and Boy, the first solo picture book by Toronto-based illustrator Milan Pavlovi ć, is a well-orchestrated, wordless appreciation of music and friendship.In a riverside park, a mop-haired child plays a violin with closed-eyed, fully immersed concentration. Tuckered from practising, the boy stretches out on the bench for asnooze.
THE CASE FOR BASIC INCOME: FREEDOM, SECURITY, JUSTICE 7 hours ago · Persistent poverty and stagnant wages. The rise of precarious, unsatisfying work. A job market upended by a global pandemic. Recipients of social-assistance benefits subject to increasing surveillance and suspicion. How could a guaranteed basicincome begin to
RITA WONG: A POET'S CALL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION These days Rita Wong isn’t writing poetry. Poetry has come to her in waves at different points in her life – fitting for a poet who has written so much about water. Her forthcoming selected works, Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong (Wilfrid Laurier University Press),edited by Nicholas
ETHICAL REMEMBERING: LISA BIRD-WILSON WRITES "THE HISTORY 3 hours ago · When I was in the midst of working on my 2016 poetry collection, The Red Files (Nightwood Editions), which reflects on the legacy of the residential school system – its impacts on families and histories – I had a conversation over casual drinks with friends of friends, people I didn’t know. The topic arose that I was a writer (none of them were).MILAN PAVLOVIĆ
7 hours ago · Book Reviews: Milan Pavlović . Read reviews of books by Milan Pavlović. Sonata for Fish and BoyMONKEY BEACH
Monkey Beach is Robinson’s command performance, set in her home town of Kitamaat Village, on the coast of B.C.: “If your finger is on Prince Rupert or Terrace, you are too far north. If you are pointing to Bella Coola or Ocean Falls, you are too far south.”. The novel is told by Haisla teenager Lisamarie Hill, whose Olympic hopeful JONARNO LAWSON AND QIN LENG (ILL.) 7 hours ago · Book Reviews: JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.) Read reviews of books by JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.). Over the ShopPOEM IN MY POCKET
Research shows that verse and simple rhymes aid in early childhood development. Babies and toddlers respond to “Itsy Bitsy Spider” because their little brains and bodies are working to make sense of their worlds, to make vital connections between words and ideas, to find order in the chaos ofQUILL AND QUIRE
Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
WILL FERGUSON, KATRINA ONSTAD AMONG CRIME WRITERS OF The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the winners of their Awards of Excellence in Crime Writing. The annual awards, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, recognize excellence in Canadian crime nonfiction and mystery, crime, and suspense fiction over nine categories. The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony on May 27.. This year’s winners are: THIS EDEN | QUILL AND QUIRE This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” REMEMBERING MARGARET-OLEMAUN POKIAK-FENTON, CHILDREN'S Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21. She was 84 years old. Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share her DRIVEN: THE SECRET LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result brings these drivers to life in a way that should make any reader more mindful when they next take a seat in TYLER LEBLANC A DOUBLE-WINNER AT ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced the evening of May 13 in a virtual ceremony.. Halifax’s Tyler LeBlanc won for both historical writing and non-fiction for Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Goose Lane Editions).The book looks at the 18th-century exile of the Acadian people through LeBlanc’s own family’s experience.INDIANS ON VACATION
Indians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of IndiansLEAR'S SHADOW
Lear’s Shadow. by Claire Holden Rothman. At the heart of King Lear is the question of identity. Can you be a king if you’ve given away your kingdom? Lear’s fool says no, and in response to the king’s question, “Who is it that can tell me who I am?” he answers,“Lear’s
STRONG WOMEN STORIES: NATIVE VISION AND COMMUNITY SURVIVAL Strong Women Stories picks up where Kim Anderson’s last book left off. In A Recognition of Being, the Cree/Metis social- and health-policy analyst detailed the ways in which native women have been stereotyped and stripped of power, and the steps such women could take to reclaim a positive self-image.In that book, Anderson spoke with Bonita Lawrence, now a Mi’Kmaq professor of women’s Q&Q BIDS FAREWELL TO REVIEW EDITOR STEVEN BEATTIE Q&Q bids farewell to review editor Steven Beattie. Steven Beattie, Quill & Quire ’s review editor, will be leaving the magazine on Feb. 26. For nearly 13 years Steven has guided thousands of book reviews with his keen intellect and broad knowledge of both Canadian literature and the industry behind it.QUILL AND QUIRE
Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
WILL FERGUSON, KATRINA ONSTAD AMONG CRIME WRITERS OF The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the winners of their Awards of Excellence in Crime Writing. The annual awards, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, recognize excellence in Canadian crime nonfiction and mystery, crime, and suspense fiction over nine categories. The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony on May 27.. This year’s winners are: THIS EDEN | QUILL AND QUIRE This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact is “generated by a random weather event – a light fall of snow.” REMEMBERING MARGARET-OLEMAUN POKIAK-FENTON, CHILDREN'S Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21. She was 84 years old. Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share her DRIVEN: THE SECRET LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result brings these drivers to life in a way that should make any reader more mindful when they next take a seat in TYLER LEBLANC A DOUBLE-WINNER AT ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced the evening of May 13 in a virtual ceremony.. Halifax’s Tyler LeBlanc won for both historical writing and non-fiction for Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Goose Lane Editions).The book looks at the 18th-century exile of the Acadian people through LeBlanc’s own family’s experience.INDIANS ON VACATION
Indians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of IndiansLEAR'S SHADOW
Lear’s Shadow. by Claire Holden Rothman. At the heart of King Lear is the question of identity. Can you be a king if you’ve given away your kingdom? Lear’s fool says no, and in response to the king’s question, “Who is it that can tell me who I am?” he answers,“Lear’s
STRONG WOMEN STORIES: NATIVE VISION AND COMMUNITY SURVIVAL Strong Women Stories picks up where Kim Anderson’s last book left off. In A Recognition of Being, the Cree/Metis social- and health-policy analyst detailed the ways in which native women have been stereotyped and stripped of power, and the steps such women could take to reclaim a positive self-image.In that book, Anderson spoke with Bonita Lawrence, now a Mi’Kmaq professor of women’s Q&Q BIDS FAREWELL TO REVIEW EDITOR STEVEN BEATTIE Q&Q bids farewell to review editor Steven Beattie. Steven Beattie, Quill & Quire ’s review editor, will be leaving the magazine on Feb. 26. For nearly 13 years Steven has guided thousands of book reviews with his keen intellect and broad knowledge of both Canadian literature and the industry behind it. THE SON OF THE HOUSE The debut novel by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, who splits her time between Halifax and Lagos, is powerful and nuanced feminist fiction.. The Son of the House begins when Nwabulu and Julie, two women from different classes of Nigerian society, are kidnapped and held hostage together; from this narrative setup, the characters then share the stories of their lives with each other – and with WILL FERGUSON, KATRINA ONSTAD AMONG CRIME WRITERS OF The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the winners of their Awards of Excellence in Crime Writing. The annual awards, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, recognize excellence in Canadian crime nonfiction and mystery, crime, and suspense fiction over nine categories. The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony on May 27.. This year’s winners are: ANAKANA SCHOFIELD WINS €15,000 IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 15 hours ago · Irish-Canadian novelist Anakana Schofield has won the €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. Schofield won the award for Bina: A Novel in Warnings (Knopf Canada), a novel comprised of the scribbles the titular character made on the backs of envelopes, receipts, and other scraps of paper as she grieves after her best friend’s death. The book was acquired by Little, Brown for RITA WONG: A POET'S CALL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION These days Rita Wong isn’t writing poetry. Poetry has come to her in waves at different points in her life – fitting for a poet who has written so much about water. Her forthcoming selected works, Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong (Wilfrid Laurier University Press),edited by Nicholas
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Research shows that verse and simple rhymes aid in early childhood development. Babies and toddlers respond to “Itsy Bitsy Spider” because their little brains and bodies are working to make sense of their worlds, to make vital connections between words and ideas, to find order in the chaos of LUCKY | QUILL AND QUIRE In one heartbreaking scene, Lucky abandons a real shot at this dream to protect those she loves, proving that despite her upbringing, she does have a moral conscience. But as Lucky grows up, she’s torn between guilt and her inherited ability to slide by unnoticed. There’s a thrill that just doesn’t go away, nor does it help thather
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Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
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By Karleen Pendleton Jiménez and Gabriela Godoy (ill.) For a kid in Los Angeles in 1984, their street can be their whole world. In this illustrated chapter book, that’s precisely what the muddy paradise of Muscatel Avenue is for Alex and Wolf when Read More ». FROM THE ASHES: MY STORY OF BEING MÉTIS, HOMELESS, ANDFROM THE ASHES BOOK REVIEWFROM THE ASHES JESSE THISTLEGREYHAWK FROM THE ASHESUP FROM THE ASHES BOOKWILLIAM JOHNSTONE ASHES SERIES LISTPHOENIX WRIGHT FROMTHE ASHES
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way. Jesse Thistle has lived a hard life. A descendent of Saskatchewan’s Michif “road allowance” people (who lived on small strips of land between homesteads that were unused by the Crown), his parents were not able to provide stuff or safety for him or his two brothers.INDIANS ON VACATION
Indians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of Indians GREENWOOD | QUILL AND QUIRELEIGH GREENWOOD BOOKS IN ORDER The book begins in 2038, in the aftermath of a devastating environmental crisis. Jacinda Greenwood, who goes by Jake, is a trained botanist, one of the first scientists to discover “the Great Withering,” which destroyed most of the old-growth forests around the world. In the aftermath, she works as a tour guide in one of theglobe’s last
RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE So begins Karma Brown’s engaging fifth novel, Recipe for a Perfect Wife, a time-hopping story that proves revenge can be a dish served on good wedding china. Through her two alternating narratives, Brown explores how the fight for women’s autonomy has been a messy nonlinear progression without a finish line. Despite the years – andthe
MONKEY BEACH
Monkey Beach is Robinson’s command performance, set in her home town of Kitamaat Village, on the coast of B.C.: “If your finger is on Prince Rupert or Terrace, you are too far north. If you are pointing to Bella Coola or Ocean Falls, you are too far south.”. The novel is told by Haisla teenager Lisamarie Hill, whose Olympic hopefulTHE INNOCENTS
The Innocents begins sometime in the early 1800s with Ada and Evered, a young sister and brother left alone together in their home on an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s north coast when their parents die from an illness. “The cove was the heart and sum of all creation in their eyes and they were alone there with the little knowledge of the JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
DEEP WATERS: COURAGE, CHARACTER AND THE LAKE TIMISKAMING The overwhelming sentiment of James Raffan’s troubling Deep Waters is that the 12 boys who drowned in the 1978 Lake Timiskaming canoeing tragedy never had a chance. Raffan, an experienced canoeist and wilderness lover, convincingly argues that through a combination of cult-like zeal, authoritarian rule, and little or no safety training, the leaders of St. John’s School of Ontario put itsQUILL AND QUIRE
Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
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By Karleen Pendleton Jiménez and Gabriela Godoy (ill.) For a kid in Los Angeles in 1984, their street can be their whole world. In this illustrated chapter book, that’s precisely what the muddy paradise of Muscatel Avenue is for Alex and Wolf when Read More ». FROM THE ASHES: MY STORY OF BEING MÉTIS, HOMELESS, ANDFROM THE ASHES BOOK REVIEWFROM THE ASHES JESSE THISTLEGREYHAWK FROM THE ASHESUP FROM THE ASHES BOOKWILLIAM JOHNSTONE ASHES SERIES LISTPHOENIX WRIGHT FROMTHE ASHES
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way. Jesse Thistle has lived a hard life. A descendent of Saskatchewan’s Michif “road allowance” people (who lived on small strips of land between homesteads that were unused by the Crown), his parents were not able to provide stuff or safety for him or his two brothers.INDIANS ON VACATION
Indians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of Indians GREENWOOD | QUILL AND QUIRELEIGH GREENWOOD BOOKS IN ORDER The book begins in 2038, in the aftermath of a devastating environmental crisis. Jacinda Greenwood, who goes by Jake, is a trained botanist, one of the first scientists to discover “the Great Withering,” which destroyed most of the old-growth forests around the world. In the aftermath, she works as a tour guide in one of theglobe’s last
RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE So begins Karma Brown’s engaging fifth novel, Recipe for a Perfect Wife, a time-hopping story that proves revenge can be a dish served on good wedding china. Through her two alternating narratives, Brown explores how the fight for women’s autonomy has been a messy nonlinear progression without a finish line. Despite the years – andthe
MONKEY BEACH
Monkey Beach is Robinson’s command performance, set in her home town of Kitamaat Village, on the coast of B.C.: “If your finger is on Prince Rupert or Terrace, you are too far north. If you are pointing to Bella Coola or Ocean Falls, you are too far south.”. The novel is told by Haisla teenager Lisamarie Hill, whose Olympic hopefulTHE INNOCENTS
The Innocents begins sometime in the early 1800s with Ada and Evered, a young sister and brother left alone together in their home on an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s north coast when their parents die from an illness. “The cove was the heart and sum of all creation in their eyes and they were alone there with the little knowledge of the JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
DEEP WATERS: COURAGE, CHARACTER AND THE LAKE TIMISKAMING The overwhelming sentiment of James Raffan’s troubling Deep Waters is that the 12 boys who drowned in the 1978 Lake Timiskaming canoeing tragedy never had a chance. Raffan, an experienced canoeist and wilderness lover, convincingly argues that through a combination of cult-like zeal, authoritarian rule, and little or no safety training, the leaders of St. John’s School of Ontario put its THE SON OF THE HOUSE 1 day ago · The debut novel by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, who splits her time between Halifax and Lagos, is powerful and nuanced feminist fiction.. The Son of the House begins when Nwabulu and Julie, two women from different classes of Nigerian society, are kidnapped and held hostage together; from this narrative setup, the characters then share the stories of their lives with each other – and withPOEM IN MY POCKET
1 day ago · Research shows that verse and simple rhymes aid in early childhood development. Babies and toddlers respond to “Itsy Bitsy Spider” because their little brains and bodies are working to make sense of their worlds, to make vital connections between words and ideas, to find order in the chaos of JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Editorial, Design, and Production Coordinator University of Toronto Press. Toronto Full-time. May, 21. Senior Marketing Manager Simon and Schuster Canada. Toronto Full-time. May, 21. Sales Coordinator Ampersand Canada's Book & Gift Agency Inc. Toronto Full-time. May, 17. RITA WONG: A POET'S CALL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION 1 day ago · These days Rita Wong isn’t writing poetry. Poetry has come to her in waves at different points in her life – fitting for a poet who has written so much about water. Her forthcoming selected works, Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), edited by Nicholas PHILIP ROTH: A COUNTERLIFE “That’s one of the biggest things that America gave to the Jews – gave them their anger,” says Murray Ringold in Philip Roth’s 1998 novel I Married a Communist.. “America was paradise for angry Jews.” University of British Columbia professor of English Ira Nadel quotes this passage in his new biography of Roth as a means of illustrating one of his central theses: in both his life THOMAS KING WINS 2021 LEACOCK MEDAL Thomas King has won the 2021 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for Indians on Vacation (HarperCollins Publishers). The medal is accompanied by a $15,000 prize. The novel is about Bird and Mimi, a couple vacationing in Europe, as they trace a journey taken by an uncle a century before, peppered with historical, political, and personal commentary. HACKMATACK CHILDREN'S CHOICE BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED On May 30th, winners of the 22nd Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award were announced in an online presentation streamed on both YouTube and Hackmatack’s Facebook page.. Students in Grades 4–6 participated in the program by reading the 40 shortlisted titles (20 French and 20 English) and voting for their favourite in eachcategory.
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AGONY EDITOR: COMPARISON IS THE THIEF OF JOY Dear Agony Editor, I published my debut novel 10 years ago and it was a massive hit. But none of my subsequent novels have even come close to my previous success.My wife says maybe I’ve had my 15 minutes and to accept that.But it’s a bitter pill and I can’t shake the feeling that I’m a failure.BLAZE ISLAND
Set in a not-so-distant future, the novel acts as an alarm bell for the ways the rapidly changing climate will set back the world as we know it. Bush situates this modern reworking of The Tempest on the “storm seasoned” Blaze Island, a stand-in for Fogo Island off Newfoundland and Labrador. The prologue is a love letter fromMiranda’s
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Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
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By Karleen Pendleton Jiménez and Gabriela Godoy (ill.) For a kid in Los Angeles in 1984, their street can be their whole world. In this illustrated chapter book, that’s precisely what the muddy paradise of Muscatel Avenue is for Alex and Wolf when Read More ». FROM THE ASHES: MY STORY OF BEING MÉTIS, HOMELESS, ANDFROM THE ASHES BOOK REVIEWFROM THE ASHES JESSE THISTLEGREYHAWK FROM THE ASHESUP FROM THE ASHES BOOKWILLIAM JOHNSTONE ASHES SERIES LISTPHOENIX WRIGHT FROMTHE ASHES
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way. Jesse Thistle has lived a hard life. A descendent of Saskatchewan’s Michif “road allowance” people (who lived on small strips of land between homesteads that were unused by the Crown), his parents were not able to provide stuff or safety for him or his two brothers.INDIANS ON VACATION
Indians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of Indians GREENWOOD | QUILL AND QUIRELEIGH GREENWOOD BOOKS IN ORDER The book begins in 2038, in the aftermath of a devastating environmental crisis. Jacinda Greenwood, who goes by Jake, is a trained botanist, one of the first scientists to discover “the Great Withering,” which destroyed most of the old-growth forests around the world. In the aftermath, she works as a tour guide in one of theglobe’s last
RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE So begins Karma Brown’s engaging fifth novel, Recipe for a Perfect Wife, a time-hopping story that proves revenge can be a dish served on good wedding china. Through her two alternating narratives, Brown explores how the fight for women’s autonomy has been a messy nonlinear progression without a finish line. Despite the years – andthe
MONKEY BEACH
Monkey Beach is Robinson’s command performance, set in her home town of Kitamaat Village, on the coast of B.C.: “If your finger is on Prince Rupert or Terrace, you are too far north. If you are pointing to Bella Coola or Ocean Falls, you are too far south.”. The novel is told by Haisla teenager Lisamarie Hill, whose Olympic hopefulTHE INNOCENTS
The Innocents begins sometime in the early 1800s with Ada and Evered, a young sister and brother left alone together in their home on an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s north coast when their parents die from an illness. “The cove was the heart and sum of all creation in their eyes and they were alone there with the little knowledge of the JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
DEEP WATERS: COURAGE, CHARACTER AND THE LAKE TIMISKAMING The overwhelming sentiment of James Raffan’s troubling Deep Waters is that the 12 boys who drowned in the 1978 Lake Timiskaming canoeing tragedy never had a chance. Raffan, an experienced canoeist and wilderness lover, convincingly argues that through a combination of cult-like zeal, authoritarian rule, and little or no safety training, the leaders of St. John’s School of Ontario put itsQUILL AND QUIRE
Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.) Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads. by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner (ill.) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other. by Naomi Klein and RebeccaStefoff.
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By Karleen Pendleton Jiménez and Gabriela Godoy (ill.) For a kid in Los Angeles in 1984, their street can be their whole world. In this illustrated chapter book, that’s precisely what the muddy paradise of Muscatel Avenue is for Alex and Wolf when Read More ». FROM THE ASHES: MY STORY OF BEING MÉTIS, HOMELESS, ANDFROM THE ASHES BOOK REVIEWFROM THE ASHES JESSE THISTLEGREYHAWK FROM THE ASHESUP FROM THE ASHES BOOKWILLIAM JOHNSTONE ASHES SERIES LISTPHOENIX WRIGHT FROMTHE ASHES
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way. Jesse Thistle has lived a hard life. A descendent of Saskatchewan’s Michif “road allowance” people (who lived on small strips of land between homesteads that were unused by the Crown), his parents were not able to provide stuff or safety for him or his two brothers.INDIANS ON VACATION
Indians on Vacation. by Thomas King. Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter. When Bird, the narrator of Indians GREENWOOD | QUILL AND QUIRELEIGH GREENWOOD BOOKS IN ORDER The book begins in 2038, in the aftermath of a devastating environmental crisis. Jacinda Greenwood, who goes by Jake, is a trained botanist, one of the first scientists to discover “the Great Withering,” which destroyed most of the old-growth forests around the world. In the aftermath, she works as a tour guide in one of theglobe’s last
RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE So begins Karma Brown’s engaging fifth novel, Recipe for a Perfect Wife, a time-hopping story that proves revenge can be a dish served on good wedding china. Through her two alternating narratives, Brown explores how the fight for women’s autonomy has been a messy nonlinear progression without a finish line. Despite the years – andthe
MONKEY BEACH
Monkey Beach is Robinson’s command performance, set in her home town of Kitamaat Village, on the coast of B.C.: “If your finger is on Prince Rupert or Terrace, you are too far north. If you are pointing to Bella Coola or Ocean Falls, you are too far south.”. The novel is told by Haisla teenager Lisamarie Hill, whose Olympic hopefulTHE INNOCENTS
The Innocents begins sometime in the early 1800s with Ada and Evered, a young sister and brother left alone together in their home on an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s north coast when their parents die from an illness. “The cove was the heart and sum of all creation in their eyes and they were alone there with the little knowledge of the JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Transatlantic specializes in career management for writers and illustrators, covering domestic and international rights, speaking engagements, film/TV and content development, ranging from commercial to literary fiction and nonfiction of all types and for all ages. Transatlantic has 19 agents located across North America who combinedactively
DEEP WATERS: COURAGE, CHARACTER AND THE LAKE TIMISKAMING The overwhelming sentiment of James Raffan’s troubling Deep Waters is that the 12 boys who drowned in the 1978 Lake Timiskaming canoeing tragedy never had a chance. Raffan, an experienced canoeist and wilderness lover, convincingly argues that through a combination of cult-like zeal, authoritarian rule, and little or no safety training, the leaders of St. John’s School of Ontario put its THE SON OF THE HOUSE 1 day ago · The debut novel by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, who splits her time between Halifax and Lagos, is powerful and nuanced feminist fiction.. The Son of the House begins when Nwabulu and Julie, two women from different classes of Nigerian society, are kidnapped and held hostage together; from this narrative setup, the characters then share the stories of their lives with each other – and withPOEM IN MY POCKET
1 day ago · Research shows that verse and simple rhymes aid in early childhood development. Babies and toddlers respond to “Itsy Bitsy Spider” because their little brains and bodies are working to make sense of their worlds, to make vital connections between words and ideas, to find order in the chaos of JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE Editorial, Design, and Production Coordinator University of Toronto Press. Toronto Full-time. May, 21. Senior Marketing Manager Simon and Schuster Canada. Toronto Full-time. May, 21. Sales Coordinator Ampersand Canada's Book & Gift Agency Inc. Toronto Full-time. May, 17. RITA WONG: A POET'S CALL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION 1 day ago · These days Rita Wong isn’t writing poetry. Poetry has come to her in waves at different points in her life – fitting for a poet who has written so much about water. Her forthcoming selected works, Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), edited by Nicholas PHILIP ROTH: A COUNTERLIFE “That’s one of the biggest things that America gave to the Jews – gave them their anger,” says Murray Ringold in Philip Roth’s 1998 novel I Married a Communist.. “America was paradise for angry Jews.” University of British Columbia professor of English Ira Nadel quotes this passage in his new biography of Roth as a means of illustrating one of his central theses: in both his life THOMAS KING WINS 2021 LEACOCK MEDAL Thomas King has won the 2021 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for Indians on Vacation (HarperCollins Publishers). The medal is accompanied by a $15,000 prize. The novel is about Bird and Mimi, a couple vacationing in Europe, as they trace a journey taken by an uncle a century before, peppered with historical, political, and personal commentary. HACKMATACK CHILDREN'S CHOICE BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED On May 30th, winners of the 22nd Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award were announced in an online presentation streamed on both YouTube and Hackmatack’s Facebook page.. Students in Grades 4–6 participated in the program by reading the 40 shortlisted titles (20 French and 20 English) and voting for their favourite in eachcategory.
CHRIS TOUGAS AND JOSÉE BISAILLON (ILL.) 1 day ago · Book Reviews: Chris Tougas and Josée Bisaillon (ill.) Read reviews of books by Chris Tougas and Josée Bisaillon (ill.).Poem in My Pocket
AGONY EDITOR: COMPARISON IS THE THIEF OF JOY Dear Agony Editor, I published my debut novel 10 years ago and it was a massive hit. But none of my subsequent novels have even come close to my previous success.My wife says maybe I’ve had my 15 minutes and to accept that.But it’s a bitter pill and I can’t shake the feeling that I’m a failure.BLAZE ISLAND
Set in a not-so-distant future, the novel acts as an alarm bell for the ways the rapidly changing climate will set back the world as we know it. Bush situates this modern reworking of The Tempest on the “storm seasoned” Blaze Island, a stand-in for Fogo Island off Newfoundland and Labrador. The prologue is a love letter fromMiranda’s
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At once a character study and a group portrait, Cedar Bowers’s debut novel takes its name from its heroine, Astra Winter Sorrow Brine, born and raised on Celestial Farm, a British Columbian agriculturalcommune.
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The Book of Genesis meets “Hansel and Gretel” by way of Flowers in the Attic: that would not be an inappropriate way to situate Michael Crummey’s new novel, a return to historical fiction following 2014’s Sweetland.At least, that is technically the case: a lack of distinction between history and the present has always been part of Crummey’s work, which is more interested in how each FROM THE ASHES: MY STORY OF BEING MÉTIS, HOMELESS, ANDFROM THE ASHES BOOK REVIEWFROM THE ASHES JESSE THISTLEGREYHAWK FROM THE ASHESUP FROM THE ASHES BOOKWILLIAM JOHNSTONE ASHES SERIES LISTPHOENIX WRIGHT FROMTHE ASHES
Jesse Thistle has lived a hard life. A descendent of Saskatchewan’s Michif “road allowance” people (who lived on small strips of land between homesteads that were unused by the Crown), his parents were not able to provide stuff or safety for him or his two brothers. GREENWOOD | QUILL AND QUIRELEIGH GREENWOOD BOOKS IN ORDER In Greenwood, his thought-provoking second novel, B.C. writer Michael Christie uses the ringed cross-section of a tree as an organizing principle and structure. As Christie writes, “Wood is time captured. A map. A cellular memory. A record.” And, in some cases, a handy metaphor for a family tree.INDIANS ON VACATION
Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter.MONKEY BEACH
Haisla-Heiltsuk writer Eden Robinson's first book was a collection of four stories, Traplines. In 1996, it opened to New York raves and Canadian reserve (pun intended): pretty good for a beginner JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE We are seeking a full-time Royalties Clerk. The ideal candidate has an affinity for people and processes, has strong mathematical abilities, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. DEEP WATERS: COURAGE, CHARACTER AND THE LAKE TIMISKAMING The overwhelming sentiment of James Raffan’s troubling Deep Waters is that the 12 boys who drowned in the 1978 Lake Timiskaming canoeing tragedy never had a chance. Raffan, an experienced canoeist and wilderness lover, convincingly argues that through a combination of cult-like zeal, authoritarian rule, and little or no safety training, the leaders of St. John’s School of Ontario put its RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE Alice Hale is desperate to escape her life, but she never imagined freedom would mean leaving New York City for a dilapidated old house in the bedroom town of Greenville. She only agrees to her husband Nate’s desire to relocate to avoid telling him the truth about whyQUILL AND QUIRE
Kids’ Books. Blood Like Magic. by Liselle Sambury. Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend. by Dawn Quigley and Tara Audibert (ill.). Peggy’s Impossible Tale. by Roy Miki and Slavia Miki and Mariko Ando (ill.). Thanks a Lot, Universe. by Chad Lucas. The Street Belongs toUs
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At once a character study and a group portrait, Cedar Bowers’s debut novel takes its name from its heroine, Astra Winter Sorrow Brine, born and raised on Celestial Farm, a British Columbian agriculturalcommune.
THE INNOCENTS
The Book of Genesis meets “Hansel and Gretel” by way of Flowers in the Attic: that would not be an inappropriate way to situate Michael Crummey’s new novel, a return to historical fiction following 2014’s Sweetland.At least, that is technically the case: a lack of distinction between history and the present has always been part of Crummey’s work, which is more interested in how each FROM THE ASHES: MY STORY OF BEING MÉTIS, HOMELESS, ANDFROM THE ASHES BOOK REVIEWFROM THE ASHES JESSE THISTLEGREYHAWK FROM THE ASHESUP FROM THE ASHES BOOKWILLIAM JOHNSTONE ASHES SERIES LISTPHOENIX WRIGHT FROMTHE ASHES
Jesse Thistle has lived a hard life. A descendent of Saskatchewan’s Michif “road allowance” people (who lived on small strips of land between homesteads that were unused by the Crown), his parents were not able to provide stuff or safety for him or his two brothers. GREENWOOD | QUILL AND QUIRELEIGH GREENWOOD BOOKS IN ORDER In Greenwood, his thought-provoking second novel, B.C. writer Michael Christie uses the ringed cross-section of a tree as an organizing principle and structure. As Christie writes, “Wood is time captured. A map. A cellular memory. A record.” And, in some cases, a handy metaphor for a family tree.INDIANS ON VACATION
Thomas King’s latest novel is a jaunty picaresque that contains within it an incisive character study. Each page of the novel offers the reader the author’s blend of humour and awareness of emotional layers – positive and negative – that exist behind the laughter.MONKEY BEACH
Haisla-Heiltsuk writer Eden Robinson's first book was a collection of four stories, Traplines. In 1996, it opened to New York raves and Canadian reserve (pun intended): pretty good for a beginner JOBS | QUILL AND QUIRE We are seeking a full-time Royalties Clerk. The ideal candidate has an affinity for people and processes, has strong mathematical abilities, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. DEEP WATERS: COURAGE, CHARACTER AND THE LAKE TIMISKAMING The overwhelming sentiment of James Raffan’s troubling Deep Waters is that the 12 boys who drowned in the 1978 Lake Timiskaming canoeing tragedy never had a chance. Raffan, an experienced canoeist and wilderness lover, convincingly argues that through a combination of cult-like zeal, authoritarian rule, and little or no safety training, the leaders of St. John’s School of Ontario put its RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE Alice Hale is desperate to escape her life, but she never imagined freedom would mean leaving New York City for a dilapidated old house in the bedroom town of Greenville. She only agrees to her husband Nate’s desire to relocate to avoid telling him the truth about why THE SON OF THE HOUSE 13 hours ago · The debut novel by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, who splits her time between Halifax and Lagos, is powerful and nuanced feminist fiction.. The Son of the House begins when Nwabulu and Julie, two women from different classes of Nigerian society, are kidnapped and held hostage together; from this narrative setup, the characters then share the stories of their lives with each other – and withPOEM IN MY POCKET
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