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 »
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Some sad news from over the weekend: David Foster Wallace, whose mammoth, 1,079-page novel Infinite Jest was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923-2005, was found dead of an ... Read More »
September 15, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
The legendary American literary editor Ted Solotaroff died last week, and in the days since there have been a number of heartfelt tributes to the man. One of the most recent is from Solotaroff's friend ... Read More »
August 20, 2008
Sci-fi author and futurist Sir Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90 at his home in Sri Lanka. Author of more than 100 books, of which 2001: A Space Odyssey is the ... Read More »
March 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Experimental French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet has been dead for only a few weeks, but it looks as if the touching eulogy phase is already over. Salon has just posted an essay by Canadian author Stephen ... Read More »
How-to books on the subject of suicide don't seem to be welcome in New Zealand. The Australian author and assisted-suicide advocate Philip Nitschke was detained by authorities in a New Zealand airport earlier this week, ... Read More »
February 1, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
An industry tribute to the late Robert Weaver, who died last Saturday at the age of 87, was held in Toronto's Massey College last night (see photo below). Though it was a small, closed gathering, ... Read More »
January 31, 2008 | Filed under: Events, Industry news
As you no doubt know by now, legendary author Kurt Vonnegut has died. The New York Times has a comprehensive obit, as does The L.A. Times, while Salon has a slightly quirkier homage – writer ... Read More »
April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
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