by Scott MacDonald

Luminato unveils literary line-up

It was a miserably snowy afternoon for a press conference in Toronto yesterday, but Luminato CEO Janice Price soldiered ahead anyway, making a formal announcement of the festival's 2008 literary line-up in front of a ... Read More »

February 13, 2008 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

U.K. library patrons love Patterson

By Scott MacDonald

In literary circles, there is probably no author more loathed than the U.S. thriller writer James Patterson, who freely admits to writing his books “ which he pumps out at a rate of eight or ... Read More »

February 8, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries

Gun runners learn the value of reading

By Scott MacDonald

From The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Seattle police are looking for a man who attempted to mail to Paris a box full of books packed with handgun parts and ammunition. An alert clerk at a Wallingford UPS ... Read More »

February 8, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Bigshot Hollywood director films book trailer

By Scott MacDonald

According to Entertainment Weekly, Charlie's Angels director McG has created three teaser spots for a kinda trashy-looking book called Celebutante. [...] it's a Hollywood satire [...] by Amanda Goldberg (daughter of film producer Leonard Goldberg) ... Read More »

February 1, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Suicide is painful

By Scott MacDonald

How-to books on the subject of suicide don't seem to be welcome in New Zealand. The Australian author and assisted-suicide advocate Philip Nitschke was detained by authorities in a New Zealand airport earlier this week, ... Read More »

February 1, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Robert Weaver remembered

By Scott MacDonald

An industry tribute to the late Robert Weaver, who died last Saturday at the age of 87, was held in Toronto's Massey College last night (see photo below). Though it was a small, closed gathering, ... Read More »

January 31, 2008 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

Thou shalt not kill (except on Earth 2 and Earth 5-C)

By Scott MacDonald

The comics world is abuzz with rumours that current Astonishing X-Men writer Joss Whedon plans to kill off fan favourite character Kitty Pryde at the end of his run. This has got Brian Cronin, a ... Read More »

January 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Whither Dan Brown?

By Scott MacDonald

It's been five years now since Dan Brown's insanely popular The Da Vinci Code was published, and a lot of publishing industry types are getting antsy waiting for the follow-up, which is purported to be ... Read More »

January 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Saving Vladimir Nabokov

By Scott MacDonald

A literary ethical dilemma involving the unpublished writings of Vladimir Nabokov is discussed at length by journalist Ron Rosenbaum over at Slate. It seems that Nabokov's sole remaining unpublished work “ a manuscript titled The ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

China is here

By Scott MacDonald

In response to all the recent talk about the 21st-century being the Chinese century, The Guardian has put together a fascinating two-part piece about the Chinese publishing industry. The Chinese literary world is like a ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

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Luminato unveils literary line-up

U.K. library patrons love Patterson

Gun runners learn the value of reading

Bigshot Hollywood director films book trailer

Suicide is painful

Robert Weaver remembered

Thou shalt not kill (except on Earth 2 and Earth 5-C)

Whither Dan Brown?

Saving Vladimir Nabokov

China is here

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