by Leigh Anne Williams

U.K. attention for posthumous Shields collection

The late Carol Shields' Collected Stories gets a review in U.K.'s Guardian. Author Hermione Lee observes that "the tendency to celebrate Shields as a benign, tender, mild observer of ordinary, minor lives has not made ... Read More »

July 4, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Let's hear it for D-Bez

By Leigh Anne Williams

Canada may have gotten the jump on the David Bezmozgis media feeding frenzy, but ripples are now starting to form south of the border as well. The Toronto-raised writer's debut book, Natasha and Other Stories, ... Read More »

June 28, 2004 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

The disappearing Canadian bestseller

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's ostensibly a review of Francis Wheen's Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons And The Erosion Of Common Sense (Public Affairs/HarperCollins), but Noah Richler's latest Toronto Star column is typically far-ranging. He ... Read More »

June 28, 2004 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Like an American lecturing the French on sauces

By Leigh Anne Williams

Lynne Truss, the English author who passed through Toronto a few weeks back, has earned a great deal of attention for her quirky cri de coeur on punctuation, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book's massive ... Read More »

June 21, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Jack McClelland: in other people's books

By Leigh Anne Williams

Here's one of the more curious pieces to appear following Jack McClelland's death last week: on the Bookninja.com site, Dana Cook -- "a Toronto freelance editor, indexer and collector of literary encounters" -- has compiled ... Read More »

June 21, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

More criticism, please

By Leigh Anne Williams

In the new "Summer Reading" issue of The Walrus, former National Post books editor Andy Lamey calls for more harsh criticism in book reviewing land. In doing so, he recounts some frustrations from his Post ... Read More »

June 15, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

A working class hero is something to be

By Leigh Anne Williams

Maisonneuve poetry columnist Zachariah Wells takes a look at some of Canada's blue-collar poetry in his latest online column. Among those surveyed are Peter Trower ("one of our most potent poets still writing"), Peter Richardson, ... Read More »

June 15, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Remembering Jack

By Leigh Anne Williams

The death of Jack McClelland has of course received a great deal of coverage in Tuesday's major papers. The Toronto Star's publishing reporter, Judy Stoffman, turns in a long survey of his life and career, ... Read More »

June 15, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Meet the new winners, same as the old winners

By Leigh Anne Williams

The folks at Bookninja.com have pointed out that the Writers' Union of Canada's press release announcing the winners of this year's Danuta Gleed Literary Award is strikingly similar to last year's press release: same template, ... Read More »

June 7, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

One-on-one with Alice Munro

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's a celebration of Alice Munro this week in The New Yorker. In this week's issue, the magazine is publishing no less than three linked Munro stories; the first of them, "Chance," is available free ... Read More »

June 7, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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U.K. attention for posthumous Shields collection

Let's hear it for D-Bez

The disappearing Canadian bestseller

Like an American lecturing the French on sauces

Jack McClelland: in other people's books

More criticism, please

A working class hero is something to be

Remembering Jack

Meet the new winners, same as the old winners

One-on-one with Alice Munro

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