As reported earlier on Quillblog, IFOA head Geoffrey Taylor has been awarded an honorary degree from the School of Creative & Performing Arts at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. The ceremony took ... Read More »
Here are some pics from recent book events: Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International, interviews Denise Chong about her book Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and ... Read More »
October 29, 2009 | Filed under: Events
Publishers are often called upon to defend their books against people and organizations (parents, school boards, governments, self-appointed morality squads, etc.) who attempt to ban or suppress them. In the case of a new tween ... Read More »
October 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Orhan Pamuk seems to cause a bit of a stir wherever he goes. The Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist is perhaps best-known on these shores for his legal battles with the Turkish government over remarks he ... Read More »
October 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
The first rule one learns in today's publishing climate is that an opportunity to promote one's own book should never, ever be passed up. Crank letter writer Renowned author Yann Martel demonstrates this truth with ... Read More »
October 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
It's not quite the biggest reward that can be given to a writer (that would be inclusion in Oprah's Book Club, or maybe Richard and Judy's), but the Nobel Prize for Literature is nothing to ... Read More »
First Victoria Glendinning, one of this year's Giller judges, weighed in on what she saw as some of the limitations of Canadian literature (too many grants, too many cottage settings, too many "flashbacks to Granny's ... Read More »
September 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
ThinkProgress has been excerpting juicy bits from Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor, a memoir by former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer. The most recent concerns the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which, though always political ... Read More »
September 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Nan Forler launched her picture book Bird Child (Tundra Books) on Saturday Sept. 19 at the The Great Hall in Conrad Grebel University College in Kitchener-Waterloo. Though the birds in the book (illustrated by Francois ... Read More »
September 23, 2009 | Filed under: Events
A couple of weeks ago, we linked to Lev Grossman's Wall Street Journal op-ed heralding a new era of plottiness in literary fiction and an end to modernist obscurantism. Readers want story, Grossman declared, and ... Read More »
September 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
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