by Nathan Whitlock

Bookmarks: new e-reader from Sony, Ignatieff’s a union man, censorship in Iraq, reading in Venezuela, and more

Some book-related links: Sony to release two new e-readers Michael Ignatieff re-joins the Writers' Union Iraqi publishers worry about new censorship laws Venezuela's Revolutionary Reading Plan Arsenal Pulp re-designs and re-releases Hard Core Logo Even ... Read More »

August 5, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Stephenie Meyer a biter?

By Nathan Whitlock

According to gossip site TMZ.com, Stephenie Meyer is being accused of stealing parts of the fourth Twilight novel from a book by an author named Jordan Scott. TMZ links to the letter from Scott, detailing ... Read More »

August 5, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Cheap irony alert: Orwell removed from Kindle

By Nathan Whitlock

From the Associated Press: A pirated e-book of 1984 led to an Orwellian moment for Kindle customers. Users of Amazon.com's e-reader device were surprised and unsettled over the past day to receive notice that George ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Frank McCourt, Yann Martel, Tom Wolfe, Harry Potter, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Frank McCourt dies at 78. Yann Martel's new novel gets a U.S. deal. Tom Wolfe says, "To the moon, America, to the moon..." Harry Potter books "very Talmudic." What's wrong with the ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Mavis wasn’t crazy about Mordecai

By Nathan Whitlock

Here's an excerpt from the interview Jhumpa Lahiri did with Mavis Gallant in the new issue of Granta. (We just thought it was funny...) MG: I remember one of the people around in that winter ... Read More »

July 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Twilight fans invade sleepy U.S. town

By Nathan Whitlock

From The Guardian: Residents of Forks, Washington State, are still stunned by what a piece of assiduous Googling from Twilight author Stephenie Meyer has unleashed on their town. Looking for the US's rainiest location in ... Read More »

July 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

E-love you forever: website will read bedtime stories to your kids

By Nathan Whitlock

From Your Local Guardian: Hardworking fathers can still read their children a bedtime story in their absence, thanks to a new invention by a Kingston father-of-two. Chris Coombs, 44, has come up with a personalised ... Read More »

July 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: snobbery in the age of Kindle, Kerouac and the canon, and bigamy proves a boon

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: James Wolcott wonders, "What's a Culture Snob to Do?" in the age of Kindle, iPods, etc. Should Kerouac be kicked out of the canon? That old story: woman finds out her husband ... Read More »

July 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Three men sentenced for firebombing U.K. publisher

By Nathan Whitlock

From CBC.ca: A judge in Britain has sentenced three Muslim men to 4½ years in prison each for an arson attack on the home of a publisher of a novel about the child bride of ... Read More »

July 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Burned holy books to be symbolically buried, maybe

By Nathan Whitlock

In the Israel-Palestine conflict, symbolism is everything. And there is a small tussle going on right now that is so heavy with symbolism, it might as well be an Ingmar Bergman film. At issue is ... Read More »

July 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Bookmarks: new e-reader from Sony, Ignatieff’s a union man, censorship in Iraq, reading in Venezuela, and more

Stephenie Meyer a biter?

Cheap irony alert: Orwell removed from Kindle

Bookmarks: Frank McCourt, Yann Martel, Tom Wolfe, Harry Potter, and more

Mavis wasn’t crazy about Mordecai

Twilight fans invade sleepy U.S. town

E-love you forever: website will read bedtime stories to your kids

Bookmarks: snobbery in the age of Kindle, Kerouac and the canon, and bigamy proves a boon

Three men sentenced for firebombing U.K. publisher

Burned holy books to be symbolically buried, maybe

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