McClelland and Stewart’s first titles: Diplomacy in the Digital Age, edited by Janice Gross Stein; In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood; Arguably: Selected Essays by Christopher Hitchens; Damned Nations: Greed, Guns and Aid by War Child North America founder Samantha Nutt; and The Anatomy of Israel's Survival by Hirsh Goodman (Image: Angela Hickman)
McClelland and Stewart launched its new nonfiction imprint, Signal, on Wednesday night at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto to a collection of bookish personalities and dignitaries, including Sun TV’s Ezra Levant, Janice Gross Stein, Canadian ambassador to France Mark Lortie, Canada World Youth vice chairman of the board Colin Robertson, ambassador and inspiration for Diplomacy in the Digital Age Allan Gotlieb, M&S publisher and president Doug Pepper, authors Margaret MacMillan and Samantha Nutt and chairman of the Charles Taylor Foundation Noreen Taylor. Guests listened attentively as Pepper noted how the imprint will publish books that “tell both sides of the story and then give you the middle ground too.” He likened the books to a great dinner conversation: they’ll offer an argument and a counter-argument, inciting the reader to think and respond. Such a description only made it more appropriate for there to be food and drink—Sun TV’s Levant agreed, joking he was going to turn the evening into a wine tasting, since the outlook was so positive, with so much optimism about the future of book publishing. See who was rubbing elbows with who in our gallery after the jump.
Among the imprint’s first five titles is Diplomacy in the Digital Age, a collection of essays celebrating Gotlieb that has been edited by Janice Gross Stein, director of the Munk School. It was the book of the night, and fittingly the party guests seemed to keep Pepper in six conversations at once—no doubt to congratulate McClelland and Stewart on a job well done. Authors MacMillan and Nutt—whose book Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid is also on Signal’s roster—made the rounds, while Taylor offered a sound bite for the forthcoming Signal TV and may well have been perusing the titles with the 2012 Charles Taylor prize for nonfiction in mind.
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