Really, it’s my fault. There was that time at Eden Mills, I was browsing the book-table. I didn’t buy anything. $18 seemed like so much for a book and I had a real job then! Then there was the booth at Toronto’s Word on the Street last fall—same thing. I’m sure my bar tab at the end of that night easily topped the cost of a book.
Now Porcupine’s Quill is facing some tough financial troubles. Tim Inkster doesn’t think the publishing house will last past 2007, which makes me cry in my overpriced beer. With John Metcalf at the editorial helm, Porcupine’s Quill has been the veritable antenna of Canadian Lit, publishing Russell Smith and Andrew Pyper before anyone noticed them. The Quill has also kept essential Canuk writers in print such as Clark Blaise, Irving Layton and Leon Rooke. The aforelinked Globe and Mail article has even mentioned that Metcalf, everybody’s favourite literary curmudgeon, may be out of work soon.
Porcupine’s Quill focuses solely on literary fiction. There’s no textbook or cookbook arm to off-set the noble money-losing publications. I’m going to browse their site and then buy something.
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