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What you may have missed this week at MQUP
On the Canada-US border
What was it like to be young and sick in the past?
Pictures from Small Matters: Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900-1940
What else?
Penguin and Random House finalize merger
Everything you need to know about the great Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Transplanted into our gardens
Gardening for ladies
The “lazy hipster” archetype
Gregory Baum at 90
What else?
Apple price-fixing trial
25 lessons from closing a bookstore
Watchwords: What’s in a name? Dinner, perhaps
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This is the second instalment of a two-part series in which Miranda Campbell discusses privilege, poverty, and youth creative work. Find the first part here.
All across Canada, young people are working to create small-scale creative careers for themselves. Figuring out how to earn a living from these projects is often a difficult process of navigating … Read More >
It is Gregory Baum’s 90th birthday this week. Gregory Baum is the author of Karl Polanyi on Ethics and Economics and Nationalism, Religion, and Ethics.
Gregory Baum at 90
Forced from his home
He never seemed to weep of loss
But always found
A workable belonging,
Expecting ever to be heard and liked
Because originary love –
God’s in a mother’s … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Journey with No Maps: P. K. Page
The Wandering Page
MQUP at Congress – Pictures here, here and here.
The Perils of Pedagogy book launch (pictures here)
The Video Art of Sylvia Safdie book launch
What … Read More >
Excerpted from the article Vivienne Poy launches book on Chinese immigration to Canada
The Hon. Vivienne Poy launched her latest book, Passage to Promise Land: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada, at York University as part of this year’s Asian Heritage Month Festival celebration.Spanning six decades, Passage to Promise Landis a revealing study of … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Out of the Basement: Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy by Miranda Campbell.
Take, for example, Tavi Gevinson, who in 2008 started a fashion blog, The Style Rookie, at age eleven. Though she has only recently begun high school, Gevinson is firmly entrenched in the world of … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
The Writing Life: diary of an author and an industry
Television in Transition
Donald Winkler, translator of Seyhmus Dagtekin’s To the Spring, by Night, is our guest blogger
The Writing Life makes Maclean’s top-10 non-fiction list
What else?
E-Books and Democracy
Limits of Crowdsourcing, Read More >
The following is excerpted from the Open Book interview with George Fetherling.
George Fetherling has played so many important roles in Canadian books and publishing it’s hard to pick a headline. First full-time employee at House of Anansi Press? Writer and editor of more than 50 books? Massey College writer in residence?
You can decide … Read More >