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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Quill & Quire December 2020.
Life in a year
IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE that this marks Q&Q’s final issue of 2020, and our eighth working from our home offices. It’s difficult to know what to say about the situation going forward other th...
Frontmatter
WHEN AUSTIN CLARKE DIED in 2016, the bulk of his backlist was out of print. His 2002 Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel, The Polished Hoe, was still available, alongside his final n...
Power book
Pinetree Indigo workers with Jagmeet Singh
IT’S SEPT. 21, the night of the union vote at the Indigo Music & Books location at Mississauga’s Square One mall. Two of the organ...
Side notes
Raven Reads
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Boxes of books by Indigenous authors that B.C.’s Raven Reads is sending to Ontario youth ages 4–18 courtesy Dnaagdawenmag Binnoojiiyag Child & Family Se...
Teen spirit
Dear Agony Editor, I’m seventeen and want to be a writer. But every time I write something, it’s never good. Nothing turns out the way I want it to. I start so many stories but never finish them. It...
Cracking the code on diet books
WITH HIS 2016 DEBUT, The Obesity Code, Toronto doctor Jason Fung became a sought-after expert on the benefits of intermittent fasting. He also became one of the robust diet-book category’s bestselli...