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Calling Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is out promoting jPod, and among the media coverage is this reader Q&A on Britain's Telegraph site. The Vancouver author gets whimsical now and then: asked how he'd like to be remembered, he ... Read More »

June 16, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Around the world in a few minutes

By Leigh Anne Williams

Salon has launched "The Literary Guide to the World," a series of writeups about books about specific places, organized in map format. (And it's all a promotional tie-in with the Travel Channel, it seems.)Writes Salon's ... Read More »

June 16, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

The long look back: BEA

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the eve of BookExpo Canada (or "BEA Canada," as it was called in today's Publishers Lunch), why not look back into the mists of time to the three-weeks-ago BookExpo America?The Seattle weekly The Stranger ... Read More »

June 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The empire strikes back

By Leigh Anne Williams

With the film adpatation of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation set for release this fall, and Chew on This, an adaptation of the book aimed at kids, new in stores, the American food industry is ... Read More »

June 8, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Beach reads

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's one of our culture's most cherished beliefs that since people don't want to think too hard or get too bummed out in the sunshine, mass-market commercial fiction will hold sway in the summertime. So ... Read More »

May 24, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Hating The Da Vinci Code, the sequel

By Leigh Anne Williams

In Other Media is not a fan of The New Yorker's funnyman film critic, Anthony Lane, clinging as we do to the idealistic belief that a review should be something more than a preening display ... Read More »

May 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The future of books

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the eve of BookExpo America in Washington, The New York Times Magazine has run a cover story on the future of the book by Wired's Kevin Kelly. He begins with some familiar rhetoric about ... Read More »

May 16, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The Canadian short story

By Leigh Anne Williams

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 Viswanathanathon goes on and on

By Leigh Anne Williams

In New York magazine, author and media guru Kurt Andersen weighs in on the Viswanathan plagiarism controversy in a very engaging and worthwhile piece.Andersen has some fun with the excuses plagiarists make, noting that Viswanathan ... Read More »

May 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Reed sneaks past Frankfurt in London book event race

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a surprise move, Reed Exhibitons has announced that next year's London Book Fair will move to a new location (west-end Earl's Court) and a new time (April 16 to 18). That follows widespread dissatisfaction ... Read More »

May 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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Calling Douglas Coupland

Around the world in a few minutes

The long look back: BEA

The empire strikes back

Beach reads

Hating The Da Vinci Code, the sequel

The future of books

The Canadian short story

The Viswanathanathon goes on and on

Reed sneaks past Frankfurt in London book event race

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