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David Lester in The Globe and Mail

Read an article about author David Lester and his graphic novel, The Listener, in the Globe and Mail.

Nine boxes of books arrived in the afternoon. David Lester hauled each heavy box up the stairs to his third-floor apartment in eastside Vancouver.

And there they sat. Hour after hour. He could not bring himself to open a single carton. The boxes contained copies of his graphic novel fresh off the presses.

“I waited many hours,” he said. “I could not bear the thought of it looking badly.”

The books were the result of a project started years earlier, a laborious process involving thousands of sketches and detailed final drawings in stark black and white, rendered in pencil and pen ink, watercolour and acrylic paint. After a long, intimate relationship with each drawing, the work had been sent off to the printers.

Too much ink and the images would be blobs. Too little and the book would be a washout. (click link above to read more)

Manitoba Book Award Nomination

We’re pleased to announce that Maple Leaf Rag by Kaie Kellough, with design by Relish Design, has been nominated for the Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year award. The awards will be handed out at the Manitoba Book Awards on April 17 at the Centre culturel franco-manitobain.

Interview with Kaie Kellough

Click here to read an interview with Kaie Kellough, author of Maple Leaf Rag, at Black Coffee Poet.

Interview with Todd Gordon

Click here to read an interview with Todd Gordon, author of Imperialist Canada on the blog On Journeying with those in Exile.

CBC Weekend Morning Show Interview with Jila Ghomeshi

Is it ever okay to say “ain’t”? A new book about the English language sparked many calls to our listener line. Jila Ghomeshi, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manitoba, spoke with Kerän Sanders about her new book Grammar Matters. Click here to listen to the interview.

Todd Gordon Talks at the University of Regina

Listen to a talk given by Todd Gordon, author of Imperialist Canada, at the University of Regina on December 3, 2010.

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Maple Leaf Rag Makes Top Ten List

Kaie Kellough’s Maple Leaf Rag has made Shelf Unbound indie book review magazine’s top ten list of books for 2010.

Interview with Todd Gordon

Listen to this interview with Todd Gordon, author of Imperialist Canada, on The Friday Morning After from CKUT, McGill Radio. The interview begins at approximately 16:30.

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Advance Review of Grammar Matters

Click here to read this advance review by Britt Embry from The Uniter of Grammar Matters by Jila Ghomeshi, due to be released before the end of November.