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WEBExcerpt from The Audacity of Relevance: Critical Conversations on the Future of Arts and Culture; Agony Editor: Let flippant comments lie; Excerpt from Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity-Obsessed World
Kids’ Books - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEB3 days ago · Governor General’s Award–winning author Deborah Ellis returns with a terrific middle-grade novel set in contemporary Toronto. Written in first-person narrative, the book follows 12-year-old Kate Grey after she is suspended from school for behavioural issues. ... Read More ». August 21, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids ...
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WEBBook Reviews — Douglas & McIntyre. Read our reviews of books published by Douglas & McIntyre. Reuniting with Strangers. by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio. ★ Skid Dogs. by Emelia Symington-Fedy. ★ The Morning Bell Brings the Broken Hearted. by Jennifer Manuel. ★ Storylines: How Words Shape Our World.
Stolen Words - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBDec 1, 2017 · A group of children stand, their heads reluctantly held to the sky with mouths open as their voices flow from their throats in smoky wisps, coalescing into a large blackbird. The bird flies into a cage, held by a white priest. Back in the present, when the grandfather opens the Cree language book, the previously caged blackbird is released ...
Hench - Quill and Quire
WEBOct 1, 2020 · by Peter Nowak. Anna Tromedlov, the anti-hero of Natalie Zina Walschots’s stunning debut novel, Hench, isn’t drawn to villainy because of any deep-seated issues or evil intent. For Anna, temporary work as a henchperson to supervillains is just a way to make ends meet, a logical extension of the gig economy. It isn’t glamorous – data ...
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WEBJob Board. Sales Associate Dundurn Press Ltd. Toronto Full-time. Sep, 26 new. Report Writer & Editor Barker Hutchinson & Associates Ltd. Toronto Full-time. Sep, 18. Writer in Residence Saskatoon Public Library. Saskatoon Contract.
Hark! A Vagrant - Quill and Quire
WEBNov 1, 2011 · Even in Seth’s most fully realized fantasies, he seems able to imagine only a world in decline. Fittingly, the book ends with the narrator on the roof of the empty hall, contemplating suicide. How refreshing, then, to escape Seth’s dirge and enter the mind of a creator who revels in the sheer delight of her art. Kate Beaton’s Hark!
The Listeners - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBThe Listeners is Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw mixed with Gail Tredwell’s Holy Hell, QAnon theories combined with the influx of the divine in Myla Goldberg’s Bee Season. Claire Devon hears a low hum one day. Her friends and family can’t hear it, but one of her high-school students can. In the thrall of the hum, the two become more ...
The Last Guide: A Story of Fish and Love - Quill and Quire - Quill
WEBIn The Last Guide, Ottawa Citizen columnist and feature writer Ron Corbett explores the life of Frank Kuiack, Algonquin Park’s last remaining fishing guide. The book alternates between a biography of Kuiack and an account of his last trip – guiding Corbett on a largely unsuccessful, though deeply symbolic, exploration of …
All the Quiet Places - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBBrian Thomas Isaac’s All the Quiet Places transports the reader across time and space to a, well, quiet corner of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the southern Interior of British Columbia in 1956. There, six-year-old Eddie lives with his mother, Grace, and younger brother, Lewis, isolated from most of their community except for his grandmother and maternal uncle, who live in close proximity.