by Leigh Anne Williams

Slate joins the online-novel sweepstakes

Walter Kirn, a well-known American book critic and novelist (his credits include Thumbsucker, Up in the Air, and Mission to America) has signed on to write a serialized online novel for Slate, to appear in ... Read More »

March 9, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

How to make a bookstore window display

By Leigh Anne Williams

Michael Cho is a Toronto cartoonist whose work will have a familiar look to folks who shop at Pages Books & Magazines -- Cho has designed the occasional display for the Queen Street store's main ... Read More »

March 3, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Catching the eye

By Leigh Anne Williams

Book Standard columnist (and Bookslut.com proprietor) Jessa Crispin writes about the mysterious process by which some books manage to stand out from the pack enough to snag her attention. And for at least one title ... Read More »

March 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Free to read, you and me

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's midway through Freedom to Read Week, but there's still plenty of time to get in on the action. Among the events listed on the online schedule are a mock "trial" for challenged books, to ... Read More »

March 2, 2006 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

Books, not bombs, say authors to Reed

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the eve of the London Book Fair, a group of authors has written a letter to the Times Literary Supplement protesting one of the fair organizer's other revenue streams. "Reed Exhibitions, owned by the ... Read More »

March 2, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

On propaganda and fiction

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Tyee has a piece suggesting that Michael Crichton's State of Fear – an action thriller based on the premise that environmentalists are misinformed at best and downright sinister at worst – could herald a ... Read More »

March 1, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Scout's honour

By Leigh Anne Williams

With the London Book Fair imminent, the Telegraph site has recruited a literary scout, Anne Louise Fisher, to write about what the fair is like for her and her colleagues. "Our greatest fear is that ... Read More »

March 1, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Flann O'Brien novel Lost and found

By Leigh Anne Williams

Every now and then we book-related toilers are reminded (as if we needed to be) just who's winning the war for people's attention in today's cultural battleground. To wit, The New York Times checks in ... Read More »

February 23, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Bookselling

Fairytales of New York

By Leigh Anne Williams

The CBC Arts website has a strong profile of Jay McInerney, whose post-9/11 novel, The Good Life, has been getting much press. The piece is notable for its discussion of the changing character of New ... Read More »

February 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Heavenly thoughts, earthly riches

By Leigh Anne Williams

Associated Press reports that some Italian publishers have run into a royalty dispute with the Vatican over reprinted quotations and writings by Pope Benedikt XVI (formerly Joseph Ratzinger). Writes AP staffer Frances D'Emilio: "After Ratzinger ... Read More »

February 20, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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Slate joins the online-novel sweepstakes

How to make a bookstore window display

Catching the eye

Free to read, you and me

Books, not bombs, say authors to Reed

On propaganda and fiction

Scout's honour

Flann O'Brien novel Lost and found

Fairytales of New York

Heavenly thoughts, earthly riches

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