Some book related links: Some Calgarians are still angry at McNally Robinson for leaving. Slate's Fred Kaplan explains why he wrote a whole book about the year 1959. A sneak peek at Edith Wharton's lost ... Read More »
The International Festival of Authors has just announced the preliminary lineup for this year's edition, which will mark the festival's 30th anniversary. (In the press release, the festival is dubbed "IFOA XXX," which suggests the ... Read More »
The National Post points us to a story in ADN Kronos about Persepolis author (and director of the film version) Marjane Satrapi's efforts to expose what many believe was an enormous electoral fraud in last ... Read More »
June 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
A lot of bookish types were annoyed when rapper, producer, professional spoilt brat, and now author Kanye West claimed to be a "proud non-reader" in a recent interview. We're guessing, however, that more than a ... Read More »
June 17, 2009 | Filed under: Authors
Grumpy Bird author/illustrator Jeremy Tankard recently chatted with Sonja Bolle of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some highlights: SB: Is Grumpy Bird based on anyone in your life? JT: I'd probably be in trouble ... Read More »
June 17, 2009 | Filed under: Authors
Organizations like PEN and Amnesty International battle tirelessly to free writers who have been silenced, often through quasi-judicial means. But what happens when it goes the other way “ when someone is forced to write ... Read More »
June 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Some book-related links: "French" author Milan Kundera skips Czech conference on his work. Alain de Botton calls for a new literature of the workplace. Jonathan Goldstein discovers the lonely, Twilight Zone-esque hell of the signing ... Read More »
June 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book links, Book news
This past weekend, author Nancy Hartry launched her YA novel Watching Jimmy (Tundra Books) at Swansea Town Hall in Toronto's ... Read More »
Among the many reactions to Alice Munro's well-deserved winning of the Man Booker International Prize, one of the more interesting is that of The New Yorker, the magazine that has published the lion's share of ... Read More »
You knew this was coming, didn't you? From The New York Times: With his sustained blitz of television appearances and speeches, former Vice President Dick Cheney has established himself as perhaps the leading Republican voice ... Read More »
May 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
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