19 August 2016
The Shenzhen Economic Daily was preparing a 3-page feature on the publication of Shenzheners, the first of the Chinese-Canadian writer Xue Yiwei's books to appear in English, and I was asked to write about why LLP chose to publish the collection. What follows is the text I wrote, which Yiwei then translated into Chinese.
14 May 2016
Asked to present the keynote talk yesterday at the QUESCREN conference Connect and Disconnect: Anglophones, the English Language, and Montreal's Creative Economy, I took the opportunity to consider what has changed and what has remained the same in Montreal's anglophone literary milieu in the six years since the publication of my essay Writing in the Time of Nationalism (Signature Editions, 2010). What follows is a short excerpt from that talk.
12 April 2016
On 11 April, 2016, Linda Leith participated in TD Blue Met Talks: Femmes & leadership | Women & Leadership during the Opening Cocktail of the 18th Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival.
Blue Met had invited several women of influence to speak about the power of words, women in leadership and how books have inspired and changed them and their careers. The other participants were Louise-Ann Maziak, Marie-Josée Bédard, Suzanne Fortier, and Marie Giguère.
11 April 2016
Philosophy, politics—and a lot of sex. Michael Mirolla's new book, Torp (just published by LLP), is an erotic novel about a young married couple and their friend Torp set in Vancouver in 1970.
20 January 2016
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, by Tim Parks (Norton 2014)
Part I is here.
20 January 2016
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, by Tim Parks (Norton 2014)
18 November 2015
Linda Leith, President of the Montreal publishing house Linda Leith Éditions, is delighted to announce that Maurice Forget is joining LLÉ as Conseiller éditorial.
7 November 2015
This is Part III of a three-part text, The Decision to Publish in French.
7 November 2015
This is Part II of a three-part text, The Decision to Publish in French. Part I is here; Part III is here.
7 November 2015
In September 2014, LLP embarked on a process that has led, one year later, to the decision to publish books in French as well as English.
This is Part I of a three-part text. Part II is here.
20 October 2015
This is a fairy-tale victory for Justin Trudeau. An extraordinary triumph: a majority in Parliament, Liberals elected in every province—even Alberta—and all three territories; a clean sweep of the Maritimes; an entirely unanticipated forty-seven seats in Quebec. And, best of all, no more Harper.
5 October 2015
I don’t know how many times I have to explain this to you people.
12 August 2015
“There's a lot more to come,” says Lady G, “a lot more good things to come. Just like anything else, you can have good and bad. The bad is going to get lost somewhere. The good is going to prevail. Because good is always over evil. It's just one of those things. Every day you have a new artist from the reggae or the dance hall fraternity. It can never stop. Music will surely live on.”
12 August 2015
"It makes sense that the dance hall acts are always on Saturday. Sunday is more, like Jamaicans say, big people music, meaning people over 45." -- Richard Lafrance
Cocoa Tea
9 August 2015
Serious churchgoers and orthodox Rastafari see wining (the horrible term twerking in North America) as a sign of dissolution. Crouched with their legs apart, girls and women raise their behinds, swivel their hips, and vibrate.
9 August 2015
The timing could not be better for the Montreal International Reggae Festival (August 14-16). Everyone is curious about Lady Saw: her changing look, and how far she goes with her lyrics and dance moves. Everyone is also eager to hear Saw handling hits like her spectacularly raunchy song of desire, Heels On.
16 July 2015
The mix of detective work with the personal family story makes for a unique memoir, a unique kind of memoir: a memoir that reads like a detective novel. I can think of nothing like it.
2 July 2015
Announcement: Elise Moser joins LLP as Associate Editor
16 June 2015
Kevin Birmingham’s book reminds me what really matters, when it comes to writing and publishing.
13 May 2015
Five weeks in Venice, living like the locals.
7 May 2015
Dennis Johnson of Melville House Books, who sees himself as an outsider, is critical of the mainstream of American publishing. He's one of the more original voices in contemporary publishing.
