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May 02, 2014
Guttersnipes: Mimi Pond
TCAF is the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. It is an annual week-long celebration of comics and graphic novels and their creators, featuring readings, interviews, panels, workshops, gallery shows, art installations, ...
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May 01, 2014
Residential Zoning: Comics, Poutine, and the Publishing Ecosystem
Here's hoping you don't learn anything about me this May.My name is Evan Munday, and if you've heard of me at all, it was probably through my past publicity work at venerable Canadian indie press Coach ...
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March 03, 2014
The Dirty Dozen, with Brian Panhuyzen
By Open Book and Brian PanhuyzenBrian Panhuyzen is a short story writer and novelist and is Open Book: Toronto's March 2014 Writer-in-Residence.Stay tuned throughout the month to hear from Brian on subject ...
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January 17, 2014
Open Book Toronto Update: Online Reading, Literary Resolutions & a Literary Event You Won't Want to Miss!
Fresh & Local: Your connection to Toronto's vibrant literary sceneDear Readers,New Year, new books! 2014 is the year to realize your literary resolutions — whether it's a specific book you've been ...
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October 24, 2013
Writing Fatherhood
What do we know about pregnancy1.I shall begin, by speaking. Incubate, introduce a glossary. Just on the tongue. Unpaginated.2.Something is growing, inside. Occupant. Connects whole milk to healthy industry. ...
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October 04, 2013
The Proust Questionnaire, with Scott Carter
Barrett Fuller is a womanizer. A boozer. A drug user. What many people don't know though, is that he's also the man behind an incredibly successful (and necessarily pseudonymous) series of children's ...
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March 26, 2013
Kid Lit Can, with Susan Hughes: Classic Canadian Children's Books, Old and New (Part Two)
Welcome back to the kick-off of my monthly blog on Open Book: Toronto, which will be celebrating Canadian children's books, their creators and the kid lit biz in general!In Part One of this blog, I asked ...
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March 05, 2012
Sellers & Newel: A New Place for Second-Hand and Antiquarian Books
In the heart of Toronto’s Little Italy is a small second-hand bookstore with big dreams.Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books opened its doors in November 2011 at 672 College Street, and while the store ...
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October 07, 2009
Ten Questions with Trilby Kent
Trilby Kent has written for the Canadian national press and publications in Europe and America; her short stories have appeared in such magazines as Mslexia and The African American Review. She now lives ...