by Leigh Anne Williams

Small-press stars in the U.S.

Business Week looks at a couple of small American literary presses that are making a mark. Most prominently, New York's Archipalego Books, which has scored a great deal of attention this year for an English ... Read More »

May 4, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Henighan on the LongPen

By Leigh Anne Williams

Margaret Atwood's LongPen is set to wow crowds at BookExpo America in a couple of weeks, but at least one commentator is unconvinced of its appeal. Author Stephen Henighan attended the failed test signing at ... Read More »

May 4, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

This witty and wise piece will render you near-catatonic with delight and admiration

By Leigh Anne Williams

Over on the CBC Arts website, Andre Mayer looks at the fine art of book blurbing, and he leads off with a doozy of an example from Dave Eggers. Writing about Adverbs, a new adult ... Read More »

May 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

How Kaavya Viswanathan lost a half-million-dollar book deal, continued: Gladwell weighs in

By Leigh Anne Williams

On his blog, author and New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell offers his take on the Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarism controversy (see In Other Media passim). And his take is pretty much, What's the big deal? Writes ... Read More »

May 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Ticknor love in America

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sheila Heti's novel Ticknor was recently published in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and has been attracting the admiration of several literary blogs. One site, the Litblog Co-op, has been running Ticknor-related content ... Read More »

April 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Adventures in book packaging

By Leigh Anne Williams

The controversy over Kaavya Viswanathan's plagiarism keeps picking up speed, so here's a quick recap. The Harvard student scored a $500,000 advance for her debut chicklit novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and ... Read More »

April 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Second-novel success, or sophomore jinx?

By Leigh Anne Williams

With Charles Frazier's second novel, Thirteen Moons, now scheduled for an October release, The New York Times takes a look at the considerable expectations the book will face. Frazier's 1997 debut, Cold Mountain, was a ... Read More »

April 20, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

On photography

By Leigh Anne Williams

There are a couple of photo-related items to point out today. The CBC Arts website has a photo gallery of stills from Carte Blanche, a brand-new collection of the work of various Canadian photographers and ... Read More »

April 20, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Politics and the pen

By Leigh Anne Williams

With Michael Ignatieff eyeing the Liberal Party leadership, we're now facing the possibility of a genuine novelist actually running the country at some point down the road. (Though better known for his non-fiction, Ignatieff has ... Read More »

April 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Beckettmania

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's the 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's birth today, and the University of Texas at Austin is celebrating with a website called "Fathoms from Anywhere: A Samuel Beckett Centenary Exhibition." Based on a 1984 non-virtual ... Read More »

April 13, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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Small-press stars in the U.S.

Henighan on the LongPen

This witty and wise piece will render you near-catatonic with delight and admiration

How Kaavya Viswanathan lost a half-million-dollar book deal, continued: Gladwell weighs in

Ticknor love in America

Adventures in book packaging

Second-novel success, or sophomore jinx?

On photography

Politics and the pen

Beckettmania

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