BookCampTO

This Saturday, Cheese and I (along with my friend Kevin) attended BookCampTO, a grassroots “unconference,” whose mandate was to have “A conversation about the future of books, writing, publishing, and the book business in the digital age.”
So, while I didn’t bring my laptop and tweet throughout the day, here are a few summaries, observations and [...]

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From the focus on books to “Focus & Books”?

On Dec. 20th we had to say a sad goodbye to the stand-alone Books section of the Globe and Mail, something that was widely seen as a cause for anxiety and a sign of decreasing support of literature by the mainstream media. The Globe insisted that by amalgamating the Books and the Focus section, readership [...]

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Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland

There’s something delightfully voyeuristic about reading collections of other people’s letters, and when those letters are between most of the major players in Canadian writing and publishing of the 21st century, it’s a treat for any Can Lit fan, and an absolute delight for anyone interested in the history of Canadian publishing.
Jack McClelland was the [...]

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