by Nathan Whitlock

Justin Trudeau to host the Giller gala

CTV announced yesterday that Justin Trudeau would host this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize awards night. "I've always been a fan of Canadian literature," declared Trudeau. "I think it's important that we celebrate and highlight the ... Read More »

October 27, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Canadian author on Jeopardy!

By Nathan Whitlock

Please note, that's on Jeopardy! not in jeopardy. (Newfoundland author Michael Winter's recent fall into an incinerator is enough death-defying danger for one week's headlines.) YA author Gillian Chan's appearance on the popular game show ... Read More »

October 27, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Stéphane Dion, by the book

By Nathan Whitlock

Liberal leadership candidate Bob Rae's new book, Canada in the Balance, will be published by McClelland & Stewart at the end of this month. Michael Ignatieff, who has been leading the race, is a prolific ... Read More »

October 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Turkish novelist comments on new French law

By Nathan Whitlock

Infuriating Turks earlier this week, the French parliament narrowly passed a bill that criminalizes the denial of the 1915 genocide of Armenians in Turkey. The Guardian printed an interesting perspective on the issue from Turkish ... Read More »

October 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Frost poem found

By Nathan Whitlock

It's the kind of thing most scholars only dream of. Robert Stilling, a graduate student at the University of Virginia, recently discovered an unpublished poem by Robert Frost, while browsing through correspondence relating to the ... Read More »

September 29, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

New Woodward book another blow to Bush administration

By Nathan Whitlock

Washington Post reporter and author Bob Woodward is releasing State of Denial, in which he charges that "the White House ignored an urgent warning in September 2003 from a top Iraq adviser who said that ... Read More »

September 29, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Reports of Chomsky's demise greatly exaggerated

By Nathan Whitlock

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez not only stirred things up this week with his address to the U.N., in which he referred to President George W. Bush as the devil, he also started an incorrect rumour ... Read More »

September 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Google highlights banned books

By Nathan Whitlock

Google has been in the centre of an ongoing controversy over the merits and dangers of its plan to digitize whole libraries worth of books, but its initiative to celebrate banned books as a part ... Read More »

September 22, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The case of the purloined cigar box

By Nathan Whitlock

Toronto author Camilla Gibb's contribution to Descant magazine's upcoming September 29th fundraiser has gone missing. In keeping with this year's Cuban theme, Descant asked a few celebrated authors to decorate cigar boxes for a silent ... Read More »

September 15, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Turkish novelist faces trial

By Nathan Whitlock

Turkish novelist Elif Shafak will again have to fend off charges that her book The Bastard of Istanbul, which describes the deaths of Armenians in 1915 as genocide, insults "Turkishness" in court on September 21 ... Read More »

September 15, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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Justin Trudeau to host the Giller gala

Canadian author on Jeopardy!

Stéphane Dion, by the book

Turkish novelist comments on new French law

Frost poem found

New Woodward book another blow to Bush administration

Reports of Chomsky's demise greatly exaggerated

Google highlights banned books

The case of the purloined cigar box

Turkish novelist faces trial

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