by Leigh Anne Williams

Winners and losers in the American publishing sweepstakes

New York Times publishing reporter Edward Wyatt has used some BookScan data to identify over- and underachievers among the 2005 crop of American book releases. Doing well is Joan Didion, whose The Year of Magical ... Read More »

December 8, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Fiction's fall

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Globe and Mail has a dispatch on "the great fiction crash of 2005." Writes the Globe's Michael Posner: "Agents and retailers are complaining that sales for new fiction are soft, that orders for reprints ... Read More »

December 5, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The latest literary movement

By Leigh Anne Williams

The British fondness for excremental humour gets its due in a piece by Louise Jury in The Independent. According to Jury, there's a new mini-trend sweeping -- or perhaps clogging -- British publishing lists. "Shit ... Read More »

December 5, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Vice's vice for plagiarism

By Leigh Anne Williams

A few weeks back, news broke that the University of Georgia Press was pulping a short-story collection by Brad Vice called The Bear Bryant Funeral Train after it came out that one of the stories, ... Read More »

December 1, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Speaking American

By Leigh Anne Williams

In his latest Geist column, author Stephen Henighan -- who also teaches at the University of Guelph -- discusses his frustration with having to use an American textbook for his basic-Spanish-language course."I wasn't surprised by ... Read More »

December 1, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Black darkens doorstep at launch

By Leigh Anne Williams

On Thursday night in Toronto, reporters swarmed a party (hosted by none other than former Ontario Premier Mike Harris) for a new book published by John Wiley & Sons Canada, Rescuing Canada's Right: Blueprint for ... Read More »

November 25, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

And don't forget the Tragically Hip

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Queen's Journal took an extended look at books in last week's issue. Stories included an interview with Kingston author Steven Heighton, a look at CanLit stereotypes, and an examination of why so many writers ... Read More »

November 25, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

The other poetry jury

By Leigh Anne Williams

For the second year in a row, the Ontario literary website Good Reports has put together a "runaway jury" to pick a winner from the Governor General's Award shortlist in the poetry category. Good Reports ... Read More »

November 24, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Some attention please, say fiction fetishists

By Leigh Anne Williams

The website The Literary Saloon has done some stats-gathering on titles covered in recent issues of The New York Times Book Review, and the data may not be encouraging for fiction authors and publishers. From ... Read More »

November 24, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Lose the big books

By Leigh Anne Williams

A U.S. litblog, Conversational Reading, checks in on everyone's favourite subject, the state of book reviewing. In this case, it's the big-book syndrome, in which a new title by a major author receives nearly identical ... Read More »

November 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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Winners and losers in the American publishing sweepstakes

Fiction's fall

The latest literary movement

Vice's vice for plagiarism

Speaking American

Black darkens doorstep at launch

And don't forget the Tragically Hip

The other poetry jury

Some attention please, say fiction fetishists

Lose the big books

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