by Leigh Anne Williams

Portage and Main, 15 below

The website The Danforth Review offers a kind of primer on the Winnipeg literary scene, quickly touching on the various authors who've sprung from the 'Peg over the years, local booksellers, publishers and literary mags, ... Read More »

November 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

And the O.J. shocks keep coming

By Leigh Anne Williams

Holy moly! HarperCollins parent company News Corporation has pulled the plug on the O.J. Simpson book that was set to launch to universal revulsion next week; a planned interview special on Fox TV (another News ... Read More »

November 20, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

More on the O.J. confession

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's pretty rare for a publisher to be openly adversarial toward the author of one of her high-profile about-to-be-released titles. But hey, O.J. Simpson's If I Did It is a special kind of book. Judith ... Read More »

November 17, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Big in France

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Observer takes a closer look at the Big Frankfurt Book, Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, which has been published in French and will be translated to English for 2008 publication (McClelland & Stewart has Canadian ... Read More »

November 16, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Powers wins big in U.S.

By Leigh Anne Williams

Down in the U.S., the National Book Award winners have been named. They include Richard Powers' The Echo Maker for fiction; Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time (a history of the Dust Bowl storms of ... Read More »

November 16, 2006 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Some love for The Dodecahedron

By Leigh Anne Williams

Paul Glennon's short-story collection The Dodecahedron: Or a Frame for Frames has apparently been given some new currency by its Governor General's Award nomination. Toronto Star columnist Philip Marchand reviewed the book yesterday, more than ... Read More »

November 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Litbloggers: you're on notice!

By Leigh Anne Williams

The New York Inquirer has an interview with Keith Gessen, one of the brains behind the trendy U.S. literary journal n+1. Gessen discusses the magazine's imagined rivalry with McSweeney's, its place in the litmag landscape, ... Read More »

November 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Barack rising

By Leigh Anne Williams

More good news for Democrats in the U.S. -- Barack Obama's new book, The Audacity of Hope, is a blockbuster #1 hit. The New York Times reports that the Illinois senator has so far sold ... Read More »

November 9, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Lost Girls to be found in Canada

By Leigh Anne Williams

Our short national nightmare is over: Canada Customs has decided that Alan Moore's controversial graphic novel Lost Girls is not actual porn, just pornish.As BlogTO reported last week, Customs had initially barred the book, which ... Read More »

November 9, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The book Nancy Huston's fighting to publish

By Leigh Anne Williams

Canadian-born author Nancy Huston may have won the Prix Femina in France for her novel Lignes de faille, but she's apparently having trouble getting it published in English. The Globe and Mail reports that the ... Read More »

November 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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Portage and Main, 15 below

And the O.J. shocks keep coming

More on the O.J. confession

Big in France

Powers wins big in U.S.

Some love for The Dodecahedron

Litbloggers: you're on notice!

Barack rising

Lost Girls to be found in Canada

The book Nancy Huston's fighting to publish

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