by Steven W. Beattie

Can a literary Toronto exist?

The city of Toronto has been called many things “ the centre of the universe (but only by Torontonians), "New York run by the Swiss" (Peter Ustinov), a place where "[t]hose from other countries look ... Read More »

March 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Pulling a Roth

By Steven W. Beattie

Anyone who has read Portnoy's Complaint might raise an eyebrow at the idea of "pulling a Roth," but Stuart Evers, writing on the Guardian's book blog, means something altogether different. Evers notes that unlike many ... Read More »

March 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Anna Ford calls on Martin Amis to stop “whingeing”: UPDATED

By Steven W. Beattie

Martin Amis has been in the news quite a bit recently. He's got a new book out, The Pregnant Widow, which is getting widely reviewed in the U.K.; some reviews are positive, others less so. ... Read More »

February 22, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

The benefits of browsing

By Steven W. Beattie

With the seemingly incessant clatter about e-books, Kindles, iPads, Kobo, et al., it often feels as though the world of books and literature has become inseparable from that of technology: every day we are told ... Read More »

February 22, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

British Library to offer free downloads of public domain books

By Steven W. Beattie

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Charles Dickens's Bleak House, and Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge are among 65,000 works of 19th-century fiction that the British Library is set to offer as free digital downloads ... Read More »

February 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Autonomous Robots, Sleep Disorders, and Potato Chemistry: Diagram Prize longlist announced

By Steven W. Beattie

Last year's unlikely blockbuster Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has made the longlist for one of Quillblog's favourite literary awards: the Bookseller's annual Diagram Prize for the year's oddest title. P&P&Z is something of a ... Read More »

February 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Readers salivate over Salinger’s unpublished manuscripts

By Steven W. Beattie

J.D. Salinger has been dead a scant five days, but already people are clamouring for his unpublished work to be made available. In a 1974 interview (one of the few the famously reclusive author ever ... Read More »

February 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Terry Pratchett calls for assisted suicide “tribunals”

By Steven W. Beattie

Terry Pratchett, U.K. author of the wildly popular Discworld series, says that special "tribunals" should be set up to allow people suffering serious medical conditions to seek help in terminating their own lives. Assisted suicide ... Read More »

February 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

No “oral sex” in California school dictionaries

By Steven W. Beattie

The Guardian is reporting that the 10th edition of The Mirriam-Webster Dictionary has been yanked from classrooms in the Menifee Union district of California after a parent complained about a "sexually graphic" definition for the ... Read More »

January 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Fear of poetry waning, and the Globe opens the BÃ¶k on lipograms

By Steven W. Beattie

The Huffington Post has taught Quillblog a new word. "Metrophobia" is not an aversion to riding the Paris subway or to well-coiffed men; it refers to a fear of poetry. And apparently, this affliction is ... Read More »

January 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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Can a literary Toronto exist?

Pulling a Roth

Anna Ford calls on Martin Amis to stop “whingeing”: UPDATED

The benefits of browsing

British Library to offer free downloads of public domain books

Autonomous Robots, Sleep Disorders, and Potato Chemistry: Diagram Prize longlist announced

Readers salivate over Salinger’s unpublished manuscripts

Terry Pratchett calls for assisted suicide “tribunals”

No “oral sex” in California school dictionaries

Fear of poetry waning, and the Globe opens the BÃ¶k on lipograms

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