A friend of mine brought to my attention the Frankenstein Horror Series, published in the early 1970′s by Popular Library, last week and it has been a really interesting little series to read about. This post from the Groovy Age of Horror website is by far the best review of the series and has great [...]
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Here is the info for a couple of upcoming book launches from local mystery authors: Peggy Blair’s The Beggar’s Opera Thursday, 16 February, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm The Orange Art Gallery, 233 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, Ontario There will be live Cuban music with the terrific Cuban duet of Caridad Cruz and César Ricardo. Cuban [...]
We recently acquired a copy of the Cheshire Cat Press’ Wouldn’t it be Murder, a wonderful letterpress book illustrated with engravings by George Walker and printed at the Poole Hall Press. The book contains the talk Alice scholar and enthusiast Joseph Brabant presented to the Lewis Carroll Society of North America at its first meeting [...]
While many of the items on the struck a close cord with many of my observations when we had the open store, unfortunately I can’t lay claim to this humorously honest list of 25 Things Learned From Opening a Bookstore. I can however confirm that while I’ve encountered pretty much everything on the list, numbers [...]
The first Letterpress Gazette of 2012 is out and it is a stellar issue as always complete with articles on the Chappel, Setting Type, and the 2012 Ottawa Press Gang collective project. This issue also comes with a little ephemera packet filled with bookmarks, engravings and other goodies. Hand-set and printed at the Weathervane Press, [...]
Mixed media and book artist Holly Dean will be hosting a series of weekend workshops starting the second Saturday in February at her studio in Merrickville. Workshops range from how to incorporate text into your artwork to creating hand-bound muse journals, all with the goal to help you learn new techniques and approaches to your [...]
Saturday, January 28, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m at various libraries throughout Ottawa The concept An individual accepts to take part in the event as a Book Book reservations for specific time slots will be available the day of the event, at each site Books get “checked out” for 20 minutes by a Reader Talk [...]
The February 8th Heritage Signature Book Auction is offering up as one of the major highlights of the sale a signed presentation copy of Hemingway’s first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems. The book is signed by Hemingway to Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, editors of “The Little Review”, and first to publish some of [...]
Ducks in a Row Press is the new letterpress imprint in town. Book artist and calligrapher Nancy Trottier moved to Deep River (about 2.5hrs northwest of Ottawa) about a year ago, but has just recently acquired a beautiful 8×12 Challenge Gordon Press playfully dubbed “Ned”. Check out the great books she’s been making on her [...]
After over a hundred years of publishing history and launching the careers of Canadian literary icons such as Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Farley Mowat, Leonard Cohen, Mordechai Richler, Margaret Laurence, Michael Ondaatje and Rohinton Mistry (just to name a few), McClelland & Stewart is no longer Canadian. As of Tuesday, Random House has now become [...]