By David Topping

Derek Weiler, editor of Quill & Quire since 2004, has died, at age forty. The Globe‘s Martin Levin says that he knows “virtually no details about Derek’s death, other than that he had been in poor health for many years, and virtually never talked about it,” going on to tell about Weiler’s tattoo, which reads “I can’t go on. I will go on”—a quotation from Waiting for Godot, and the title, now, of a Facebook group in Weiler’s memory. Says Levin: “I can say about Derek without the exaggeration often associated with immediate bereavement: He was a good man, the world was better for his having been here, and I am glad to have known him. There will be many teary eyes today, not just in Toronto, but throughout Canada.” [via Bookninja]