by Leigh Anne Williams

Write it slant and bend it like Beckham

Quillblog would like to congratulate the Toronto Star's Cathal Kelly for possibly being the first sportswriter ever to work an Oulipo reference into a soccer-game recap. Covering the Toronto club's game against the L.A. Galaxy ... Read More »

August 8, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Wood goes to The New Yorker

By Leigh Anne Williams

In case you haven't heard, leading literary critic James Wood has left The New Republic to join The New Yorker as a staff writer. Leon Wieseltier, Wood's former editor, is classy in defeat: "The New ... Read More »

August 8, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Who needs book designers?

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a cute stunt, Penguin U.K. has asked musicians to design new covers for six of its classic titles. As The Guardian reports, Beck took on the French novel Le Grand Meaulnes, Johnny Borrell of ... Read More »

August 2, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Robert J. Sawyer speaks out against library cuts

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer has sent an open letter to Toronto mayor David Miller to protest plans to cut service at the Toronto Public Library. In a passionate and compelling argument, Sawyer says, in ... Read More »

August 2, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Pottermania lives on

By Leigh Anne Williams

Those who plowed through Deathly Hallows in a matter of days and are now suffering Potter withdrawal might be interested to know that there seems to be some kind of Potter academic/fan conference in town ... Read More »

August 2, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Blogs vs. newspapers, round 147

By Leigh Anne Williams

In the Boston Globe, Sven Birkets considers an age-old (OK, it just feels age-old) question: what do blogs and newspaper reviews, respectively, contribute to our literary culture? His piece boils down to an argument that ... Read More »

August 1, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

He's hot, he's best-selling, and he's dead

By Leigh Anne Williams

The New York Times has an article about the posthumous career of Robert Ludlum, the spy novelist who died six years ago but whose name keeps turning up on new books. Back when he was ... Read More »

August 1, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Friday fun, part 2: books may be addictive

By Leigh Anne Williams

Winner of this week's clever design sweepstakes comes to us from Britain. It's this's TankBooks project, in which several classic novellas and stories are being released in cigarette-style packages. (Thanks to the design site Veer ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Friday fun, part 1: Clive James' Schadenfreude song

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's not new or anything, but Clive James' poem "The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered" is a Quillblog favourite that will undoubtedly resonate with anyone who works in the book biz. The book ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Craig Davidson: still fighting

By Leigh Anne Williams

You might remember a certain boxing match last fall between Craig Davidson, author of The Fighter, and poet Michael Knox. Well, Davidson's book was just published in the U.S., and this week he fought again ... Read More »

July 26, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

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Write it slant and bend it like Beckham

Wood goes to The New Yorker

Who needs book designers?

Robert J. Sawyer speaks out against library cuts

Pottermania lives on

Blogs vs. newspapers, round 147

He's hot, he's best-selling, and he's dead

Friday fun, part 2: books may be addictive

Friday fun, part 1: Clive James' Schadenfreude song

Craig Davidson: still fighting

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