by Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Senior vice-president at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt quits

Becky Saletan, senior vice-president and publisher of the U.S.-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has quit, effective Dec. 10. From The Canadian Press: Saletan had served in the job since January 2008, when she was appointed to ... Read More »

December 2, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Bookmarks: International booklists, textual absurdity, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Over at The Guardian, Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game, Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce, and Alice Munro's short-story collection Carried Away, were mentioned as some of the best books of 2008. Publishing big-wigs have had ... Read More »

December 2, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Anosh Irani in the NYT

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

An op-ed piece by Canadian novelist and playwright Anosh Irani appears online in The New York Times today. Irani, who was born in Mumbai, writes about the seige of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel during ... Read More »

December 2, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Opinion

Bookmarks: Batman RIP, the cost of discounting books, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

POW! Holy shock value, Batman! The Caped Crusader is set to be killed off after 70 years in Batman RIP, according to the comic's writers. Paper Tiger's Sam Leith discusses The Guardian looks at the ... Read More »

November 25, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book links

Houghton Mifflin suspends new manuscript acquisition

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has temporarily suspended acquisitions of new manuscripts, according to a report in The New York Times. The company, which was formed by Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep's $4 billion takeover of Harcourt in ... Read More »

November 25, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Public consulted about U.K. poet laureate

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

The search for the next U.K. poet laureate -- Andrew Motion's successor -- began today, with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport inviting the public to make suggestions for who the next versifier should ... Read More »

November 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

The Drummer General’s Award

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Since 1993, A Different Drummer Books in Burlington, Ontario, has given Drummer General's Awards to books that have been passed over for Canada's most esteemed literary honours, like the Governor General's Awards and the Scotiabank Giller ... Read More »

November 18, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Bookmarks: Twilight tourism, a nonprofit press, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Patrick Ness's first book for children, The Knife of Never Letting Go, wins the Booktrust teenage prize Stephenie Meyer's Twilight causes a tourism boom in Forks, Washington Is Obama Book Club the newest craze? A mother sues ... Read More »

November 18, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

147 authors up for the Impac Dublin Prize

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

The longlist for the richest award for writing in English has been announced. And the longlist is, in fact, long, with 147 authors in contention for the 2009 Impac Dublin prize of £100,000. From the ... Read More »

November 12, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Libraries

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

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Senior vice-president at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt quits

Bookmarks: International booklists, textual absurdity, and more

Anosh Irani in the NYT

Bookmarks: Batman RIP, the cost of discounting books, and more

Houghton Mifflin suspends new manuscript acquisition

Public consulted about U.K. poet laureate

The Drummer General’s Award

Bookmarks: Twilight tourism, a nonprofit press, and more

147 authors up for the Impac Dublin Prize

CPYT is for Charles Pachter on YouTube

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