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Fiction vs. non-, round 2

Not too long ago, author Ken McGoogan argued in The Globe and Mail that non-fiction books get short shrift in our culture, fiction soaking up the glam and all. Now, Globe columnist and novelist Russell ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Death of God good for books, bad for Hollywood

By Stuart Woods

New York magazine's culture blog points out how Phillip Pullman is distancing himself from his image as a God-despising, atheism-peddling iconoclast in the run-up to the release of Hollywood's mega-budget adaptation of The Golden Compass, ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Giller speculation

By Stuart Woods

It's safe to say that last year's Giller Prize-winner, Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, caught some pundits off-guard. (Ahem.) This year, the peanut gallery has kept curiously mum on who will take home the ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Some hard looks at Plimpton

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's been two and a half years since journalist and author Philip Gourevitch took over as editor of The Paris Review, and now The New York Observer's Doree Shafrir sits down with Gourevitch in the ... Read More »

November 1, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Jailhouse library shelved

By Nathan Whitlock

Joe Fiorito writes in The Toronto Star about a maddening situation at Toronto's Don Jail. For years, Darlene Soares volunteered her time to work as a librarian at the jail – soliciting donations of books, ... Read More »

October 24, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Rowling "pretty and nice" at Toronto reading

By Stuart Woods

A for-kids-only reading by J.K. Rowling at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre went off without a hitch, according to Quillblog's two exclusive sources, both of whom are nine years old. Rowling reportedly read her favourite passage ... Read More »

October 23, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Market research disguised as education

By Leigh Anne Williams

The blog Two Umbrellas points to an eyebrow-raising scheme: a continuing education course at Temple University in Philadelphia entitled "A Sneak Peek at Tomorrow's Bestsellers." According to the course description: Every fall publishers introduce and ... Read More »

August 9, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Friday fun, part 2: books may be addictive

By Leigh Anne Williams

Winner of this week's clever design sweepstakes comes to us from Britain. It's this's TankBooks project, in which several classic novellas and stories are being released in cigarette-style packages. (Thanks to the design site Veer ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

We Scream for CanLit

By Leigh Anne Williams

This year's Scream Literary Festival kicks off in Toronto tonight with a launch at the Gladstone Hotel, featuring poets Dennis Lee, Souvankham Thammavongsa, George Elliott Clarke, and Shapour Shahidi. Now in its 15th year, the ... Read More »

July 3, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Keep on working (and writing)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The publication of a couple of office-set novels, Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End and Jenny Turner's The Brainstorm, has writer DJ Taylor wondering (in The Independent) why there aren't more novels about ... Read More »

May 10, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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Search Results by tag: CLA

Fiction vs. non-, round 2

Death of God good for books, bad for Hollywood

Giller speculation

Some hard looks at Plimpton

Jailhouse library shelved

Rowling "pretty and nice" at Toronto reading

Market research disguised as education

Friday fun, part 2: books may be addictive

We Scream for CanLit

Keep on working (and writing)

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