Inside Read is our sampler of new Canadian books we think merit your attention. InDOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains, Toronto poet and music journalist Natalie Zina Walschots brings a distinctly erotic edge to her examination of comic book evildoers. Says her publisher: “DOOM addresses the results of abuses of power and presents a case study […]
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Leonard Cohen repays Canada Council, and then some
A BoB short: Canadian literature and music legend Leonard Cohen, awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in Toronto last night, has chosen to donate the $50,000 that comes with it to the Canada Council for the Arts. The Montreal native is the ninth winner of the honour that has been called “The Nobel Prize of the […]
GG gee we need to rethink this
By Frank Moher The Governor General’s Award finalists were announced on Tuesday and, as usual, I looked at the drama list and sighed. Not because I wasn’t on it — I didn’t have anything eligible — but because I was reminded once again that we don’t have a proper playwriting award in this country. Now, […]
A Dance With Dragons: Worth the Wait?
By Rachel Krueger George R R Martin’s series A Song of Ice and Fire, while long a big deal in fantasy basements, is now officially a Big Deal™. The HBO series based on the first installation, A Game of Thrones, has both brought the series into the fantasy-abjuring eye and put a much-appreciated amount of pressure […]
Editing for nothing for Dire Straits
By Frank Moher You will have heard that an American publishing house has plans for an edition of Huckleberry Fiinn in which the character “N***** Jim” is to be renamed “Slave Jim.” Now comes word that the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that the song “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits is unfit for […]
Book clubbed
By Jodi A. Shaw “Oh, what book club are you in?” the librarian asks. “I’m not.” “So, you’re just reading this on your own time?” “Yes.” “Interesting.” The librarian then tells me to read the book, The Time Traveller’s Wife, in the given three weeks, as I will be unable to renew it. I explain […]
October 28, 2000. Saturday Night. “Book Club”
On November 7th, the 2006 Giller Prize went to Toronto MD-author Vincent Lam for his book Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, published by Doubleday Canada. In this column of six years ago from “Saturday Night,” Frank Moher took on the big-publisher, Torontocentric award. The juries and short-lists for the Giller have improved since those days, though […]
