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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Cynthia Good

Cynthia Good was publisher of Penguin Canada for more than 20 years and is now director of the Creative Book Publishing Program at Humber College.

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Cynthia Good

Where Books and Business Meet

Global publishers flock each year to a seven-centuries-old institution in Germany June 2008
During my years at Penguin Canada I went to the Frankfurt Book Fair about twelve times. On my first visit, my feet swelled to such an extent that I had to walk around shoeless, in my stocking feet; later experiences included a serious case of food poisoning. I always felt intimidated when I was there: by the Italian women who dressed so beautifully and never looked…