by Leigh Anne Williams

Lose the big books

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

Natural literary selection

By Leigh Anne Williams

There's been historical criticism, biographical criticism, Marxist criticism, and many more. The latest literary theory to get some mainstream attention is Darwinian criticism. In a feature in The New York Times Magazine, writer D.T. Max ... Read More »

November 10, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The outsiders

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a piece on the Tyee site entitled "Lies That Writers Tell Themselves," author Crawford Killan takes on the trope of the author as a social outsider who self-destructs, beginning with Horatio Alger and Jack ... Read More »

November 10, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Farewell Korda

By Leigh Anne Williams

Legendary American editor Michael Korda announced yesterday that he'll be stepping down from his longtime position as editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster. Korda has been with the company for 47 years (the past 37 of ... Read More »

November 3, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

There's such a lot of world to see (and write about)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The CBC Arts website, up and running again after the lockout, checks in on a group of like-minded Vancouver writers who are proponents of travel-themed non-fiction. "The group allows us to hash out these ideas ... Read More »

November 3, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Getting it wrong?

By Leigh Anne Williams

A couple of weeks ago, when Time magazine came up with that list of the 100 greatest novels of the past 82 years, there was an added bonus: in many cases, you could get a ... Read More »

October 27, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Copyright — who needs it?

By Leigh Anne Williams

Wouldn't we all be better off without copyright laws as they're currently conceived? That's the position of an International Herald-Tribune opinion piece. Co-writers Joost Smiers and Marijke van Schijndel (who were, presumably, paid for the ... Read More »

October 27, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Experimental fiction in Canada: the great non-debate

By Leigh Anne Williams

In his latest Globe and Mail column, author (and recent Governor General's Award fiction juror) Russell Smith looks at Ben Marcus's attack on Jonathan Franzen in the most recent issue of Harper's. (Franzen has questioned ... Read More »

October 20, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

What an award means (if anything)

By Leigh Anne Williams

How reliable are literary awards as an index of quality? Not very, suggests one Toronto blogger, who argues that Kazuo Ishiguro was robbed in the recent Man Booker race (his Never Let Me Go lost ... Read More »

October 20, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

We're on a road to nowhere

By Leigh Anne Williams

Following his participation in Humber College's first summer publishing workshop, writer Hal Niedzviecki has turned his experiences -- he served as one of three judges of the students' final projects, along with Kim McArthur and ... Read More »

October 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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Lose the big books

Natural literary selection

The outsiders

Farewell Korda

There's such a lot of world to see (and write about)

Getting it wrong?

Copyright — who needs it?

Experimental fiction in Canada: the great non-debate

What an award means (if anything)

We're on a road to nowhere

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