Francine Prose, whom Quillblog likes a lot, has a new book out called Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them. There's an online-only ... Read More »
July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Authors
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The Danforth Review has a brief interview with Sara Jamieson, an academic who's currently studying Alice Munro's work and who teaches a University of Calgary course called "The Short Story in Canada." Interviewer Michael Bryson ... Read More »
May 16, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
The Seattle Times website features an interesting report on a continuing trend in some high school reading lists. Interspersing arduous classical texts with contemporary works by women and ethnic minorities seems to have led to ... Read More »
April 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
One more potential sign of the downturn of literary fiction: according to a recent article in The New York Times, more and more American publishers are opting to release more and more literary fiction titles ... Read More »
March 22, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
Sam Sacks of the New York Press takes a stab at that educational institution we all love to hate: the graduate-level writing workshop. The importance of workshops in contemporary American literature can be seen both ... Read More »
December 7, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
In his latest Geist column, author Stephen Henighan -- who also teaches at the University of Guelph -- discusses his frustration with having to use an American textbook for his basic-Spanish-language course."I wasn't surprised by ... Read More »
December 1, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
Some interesting news on the poetry-meets-technology front: Lorna MacLaren of the Scottish newspaper The Herald notes a potential increase in the popularity of poetry, especially that of the Romantics, amongst members of the iPod generation. ... Read More »
November 15, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
Following his participation in Humber College's first summer publishing workshop, writer Hal Niedzviecki has turned his experiences -- he served as one of three judges of the students' final projects, along with Kim McArthur and ... Read More »
October 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
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