Search Results by tag: Margaret Atwood

Atwood goes to Scotland “ and you can, too!

Adventure Canada is currently offering a week-long cruise of the Scottish Isles in the company of Margaret Atwood and her husband, Graeme Gibson. There is no information given on Adventure Canada's website as to what ... Read More »

March 9, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Atwood’s “dog’s breakfast”

By Steven W. Beattie

When is a protest not a protest? These days, apparently when it involves Margaret Atwood. Some readers might remember her appearance at the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize ceremony, held at the Four Seasons hotel in ... Read More »

February 23, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Bookmarks: More cuts at Borders, Atwood’s Dubai antics, and more

By Stuart Woods

Borders announces more layoffs, cutting 136 jobs at their corporate offices After bowing out of the Emirates Airlines International Festival of Literature in Dubai earlier this week over concerns of censorship, Margaret Atwood decides she'll ... Read More »

February 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Atwood spurns Dubai

By Scott MacDonald

After agreeing to attend the Dubai-based Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature, Margaret Atwood has opted to stay home instead. Not only that, she won't even be attending by LongPen. Seems she's decided to make ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Event photos: polar bear dip, Fetherling’s 60th, and Bittman’s signing

By Steven W. Beattie

A number of recent events “ including a mid-winter swim and a swanky birthday bash “ brought out the literary luminaries. Quillblog's army of roving citizen photojournalists were on hand to capture the various goings ... Read More »

January 26, 2009 | Filed under: Events

Authors get chilly for charity

By Steven W. Beattie

This year marks the 250th anniversary of Scottish poet Robert Burns's birth, and to mark the occasion, a group of Canadian writers and media luminaries will be taking a dip in frigid Lake Ontario. Margaret ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Events

CPYT is for Charles Pachter on YouTube

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Cormorant Books has posted a video from Cormorant Films (which, as the disclaimer notes, does not actually exist ... yet) of M Is For Moose author Charles Pachter reading Further Arrivals by Margaret Atwood, which ... Read More »

November 12, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Bookmarks: cover design, Dave Gibbons, the U.S. election, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

The Book Design Review shows us two cover treatments for Margaret Atwood's Payback The Giller Light Bash is for the "young and hip" New York Magazine chats with Dave Gibbons about Watching the Watchmen, working ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: More on IFOA, Payback, and the limitations of big-box bookstores

By Stuart Woods

Margaret Atwood talks to Salon about her well-timed meditation on debt, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Are Canadian authors' festivals the greatest? More gripes about those nasty chain bookstores Reed Elsevier beginning ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Banned books

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

It's the American Library Association's Banned Books Week, and their website features lists of frequently challenged books covering various eras on their website. Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale is 37th on the ALA's list of the ... Read More »

September 30, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

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