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Special Feature: Interview with Will O'Neill, Creator of Actual Sunlight,...
As the technology of book delivery evolves, some authors are getting creative, using technology itself as a storytelling tool. Writer and game developer Will O'Neill has done something truly innovative...
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A VJ looks back, publishes forward
By Becky ToyneAfter a colourful career in the music and entertainment industry, former Much Music VJ Kim Clarke Champniss (KCC) decided to write a book and went about doing it in the way that people...
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Books Get Both a Push and the Squeeze at Luminato 2013
By Becky ToyneThe lineup for Luminato 2013 has been announced. Want to know what’s on offer for bibliophiles? Well, a visit to the festival’s newly launched website will tell you the following: click...
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GET UP! STAND UP! On loyalty, community and our democratic voice.
By Becky ToyneOn the first beautiful Saturday of the spring, one Canadian taxpayer (that’s me — and I use the word taxpayer because I am one, though as a non-citizen I do not (yet) get a vote) joined...
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%@&*! - Panels of a Journalist at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival
By Phil MileticOutside on Bloor: “Where do we go?” “I don’t know.” “Is it here or over there?” “Yes. Somewhere here. But I forget what room we have to go to, some ballroom.” “Just follow the herd of...
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Are You Spending More Time On Pinterest Than On Your Prose?
By Dalton HigginsAs a card-carrying member of this newer generation of entrepreneurs who believe in thoroughly cultivating all sides of our hybridized identities, I spend an equal amount of time...
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Without Readers, Would We Write?
Tickets for Kingston WritersFest are now on sale. Kingston WritersFest runs from September 25 to 29, 2013. By Claire Grady-Smith When I graduated from art school, I thought I'd become a full-time...
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Special Feature: How to Read Like Bowie - David Bowie's Top 100 Books
David Bowie Is, the newest exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, is an essential destination for fans of music, fashion and pop culture. But book lovers should pay attention too; the curators of the...
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The risk of the long read
By Becky ToyneGarth Risk Hallberg (cue a thousand “Risk is my middle name” jokes) made headlines last month for getting paid a lot of money for having written a very long book. The amount of money (US...
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Folio Prize Starts a New Chapter
By Becky ToyneLists of the “to-do” variety are for procrastinating over, while lists of the “best-of” variety are usually for fighting about on Twitter. On Monday, February 10, the inaugural shortlist...
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Is Book Publishing the New Black?
By Dalton HigginsThere’s not a week that goes by where I am not e-mailed, texted, DM’d, smoke signalled, Facebooked, instagrammed or morse coded by someone I know — or a person who has stumbled into...
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Prom Night for WORN
By Becky ToyneIn England, we don’t go to prom. We do, however, watch movies, so we know exactly how it goes: find extravagant dress/rent later-to-be-regretted tux, secure date (very important!) with...
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Pioneer Fashion Strikes Gold
By Becky ToynePost-Victorian pioneer style is in. Big beards and work boots (boys); peasant skirts and sensible-heeled ankle booties (girls); huddling in old timey, barn-board-clad bars around...
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The Word on the Street and the Weather
By Becky ToyneOn the morning of the 25th annual Word on the Street festival (WOTS) in Toronto, I awoke at 7 a.m. to the dispiriting sound of torrential rain. I snuggled under the covers with the Sunday...
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Toronto Book Award Wagers
By Becky ToyneOn a recent Thursday night at the Toronto Reference Library, the Toronto Books Awards marked its 40th edition. A crowd of publishing, library-going and CBC-listening types gathered to...
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