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PQ Weekly Roundup: 6 October 2023

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Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form.

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That’s it for this week’s links roundup. Hope you’ve found a few fascinating bookish finds!

Happy Friday!

Steph


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PQ Weekly Roundup: 29 September 2023

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Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form.

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Many thanks for stopping by to check out our best bookish links of the week. Come on back next week for more!

Cheers,

Steph


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PQ Weekly Roundup: 22 September 2023

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Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form.

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That’s it for this week’s best bookish links. Don’t forget—our very own C. I. Matthews will be taking part in the Headwaters Arts Fall Festival this Sunday. Be sure to check out her reading!

Have a great weekend,

Steph


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PQ Weekly Roundup: 15 September, 2023

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Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form.

  • Authors—does this piece about being edited ring true to you? I’ve always suspected that my editorial comments are heart-breaking/rage-inducing to my writers, and yet, for the most part, they’ve always been ridiculously kind and accommodating back to me. Perhaps they’re only secretly plotting my demise…

  • Open Book has a fascinating peek behind the scenes of a small press, focusing on the role of the editor at Coach House Books.

  • Is the book blurb system broken? On those pesky little endorsements that sell books—and weigh heavily on writers.

  • This is an interesting piece community literary organizations and all the work they do to support and nurture writers at various stages of their careers.

  • And finally, just for fun, who among us doesn’t want to know about book curses? Because let me tell you, I also have a few books that I would like to protect at all costs…

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Thanks for catching up with us! We hope you found some entertaining and enlightening book links in our post today. Keep following us for more of the best of the bookish Internet.

Cheers,

Steph


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PQ Weekly Roundup: 8 September 2023

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Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form.

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Congratulations Quill friends, we all made it through another week. Hope you enjoyed this edition of the PQ Weekly Roundup. See you back here next week for more book links!

Happy Friday,

Steph


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PQ Weekly Roundup: 1 September 2023

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Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form.

  • Many book lovers dream of walking the hallowed halls of Penguin Random House or HarperCollins, but working at an indie press can give you a rewarding experience too—and provide a whole lot of variation and excitement.

  • Remembering Seamus Heaney, 10 years after his death, and exploring his influence on contemporary poetry.

  • “It may seem as if these are separate concerns, but ChatGPT and identity politics are two sides of the same coin — both represent bankrupt versions of what literature is and is meant to do. We’re restricting what authors can write on the basis of their identity, and at the same time threatening to dissolve literature into machine babble.” Fascinating article about two of the issues that are preoccupying writers and those in publishing today: the role of AI, and who is allowed to write what.

  • Did you know there’s a project on the go that will put the artistic works of 30,000 artists on the moon? Talk about a library that’s out of this world!

  • And finally, let’s just all take a second to recognize the joy and satisfaction to be found in short books that can be read in one sitting.

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Happy Friday, book lovers! Wishing you a lovely literary long weekend with enough time to squeeze in some reading among your Labour Day plans.

Cheers,

Steph


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The Porcupine's Quill would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. The financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) is also gratefully acknowledged.