Given current levels of inspiration following last night's election results, In Other Media sees fit to return, one last time, to the well-worn comfort of the James Frey fiasco. Remember when Frey appeared on Larry ... Read More »
January 24, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
An article in today's New York Times collects the responses, or lack thereof, to the allegations that James Frey falsified much of the content in his bestselling memoir A Million Little Pieces. The publishers of ... Read More »
January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Another recent article from The New York Times maintains that James Frey is not the only popular author who faked a hard life. Times writer Warren St. John may have answered a question vexing literary ... Read More »
January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
With sales of upwards of 25 million copies and a broad readership that even includes In Other Media's mother, who, as a rule, does not read books written in English, The Da Vinci Code truly ... Read More »
January 10, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
On Tom Bartlett's blog, Minor Tweaks, nestled among delightful non-sequitur features that include letters to consumer products (they, or rather their representatives, answer), dead celebrity iTunes playlists, and cheese reviews, is a send-up of James ... Read More »
January 10, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Men robbing banks with pitchforks; pythons eating cats, turkeys, and alligators; and police handcuffing kindergarten-aged kids: according to three recent books, all this and more goes down in Florida."I'm already putting together a file for ... Read More »
January 4, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Over the holidays, the Canadian Arts Coalition (CAC) launched VoteArts2006.ca, a website devoted to keeping the arts front and centre during the federal election campaign. The website allows Canadians to express their support for the ... Read More »
January 4, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
An informal investigation conducted by British newspaper The Sunday Times has an amusing and surprising result. Disguising them as manuscripts for new books, the paper sent typewritten copies of the first chapters of two novels ... Read More »
January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
On the Toronto Star website, books columnist Philip Marchand begins a CanLit-year-in-review piece, somewhat surprisingly, with a lengthy discussion of British novelist Ian McEwan's Saturday. Set in the present, McEwan's issue-driven novel is used as ... Read More »
January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
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