by Steven W. Beattie

My nine-year-old could write that

Alec Greven, the nine-year-old Colorado author of How to Talk to Girls, is now a bona fide media star, thanks to an appearance on the Ellen show and our culture's seemingly insatiable desire for a ... Read More »

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Poetry awards and conflict of interest (not what you think…)

By Steven W. Beattie

Apparently, Canada isn't the only place where poets get their dander up about awards and perceived conflict of interest. The New York Times' Paper Cuts blog points out a particularly vitriolic exchange in the Telegraph ... Read More »

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Best books of 2008 as chosen by Stephen King, the Atlantic, and Joe the Plumber

By Steven W. Beattie

It being that time of year, when sleighbells can be heard gently tinkling and readers are inundated with a glut of year-end best-of lists so that they can feel bad about how much they haven't ... Read More »

December 8, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Court ruling doesn’t faze author of Harry Potter encyclopedia

By Steven W. Beattie

You've got to hand it to Steven Vander Ark: the guy's got chutzpah. In September, a Manhattan judge ruled against Vander Ark in a lawsuit launched by mega-selling author J.K. Rowling over a proposed Harry ... Read More »

December 8, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Depressed economy not all bad news for publishers

By Steven W. Beattie

The economic turmoil in global financial markets is making a lot of folks depressed (ha!), but it apparently hasn't stopped one mega-publisher from handing out generous bonuses to staff. The same week that Houghton Mifflin ... Read More »

December 1, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Updike honoured for a lifetime of bad sex

By Steven W. Beattie

Last week, Quillblog pointed to the Literary Review's shortlist of nominees for the annual Bad Sex Award. Rachel Johnson ended up taking the award “ a bottle of champagne and a plaster foot, which is ... Read More »

December 1, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Bad Sex nominees cover everything from Adam and Eve to the smell of soup

By Steven W. Beattie

Paulo Coelho, John Updike, and Isabel Fonseca are on the shortlist for the one award no writer really wants to receive: the Literary Review's Bad Sex Award. The award “ a plaster foot “ was ... Read More »

November 24, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Random House to digitize a whole mess o’ books

By Steven W. Beattie

Europeana, the EU's online repository of digital books, may be experiencing birth pangs, but Random House in the U.S. seems convinced that the market for digital books is where the future of publishing lies. The ... Read More »

November 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

The Simpsons: lexicographical gatekeepers

By Steven W. Beattie

Further to the previous post, it appears that the Simpsons are hard at work defending the English language, not just by getting new words inserted into the dictionary, but by highlighting words that have been ... Read More »

November 17, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Something to get excited about?

By Steven W. Beattie

Apparently the English lexicon in the early 21st century owes a hefty debt to The Simpsons. In 2001, the Oxford English Dictionary legitimized the term "d'oh," Homer's iconic expression of frustration, by including it within ... Read More »

November 17, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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My nine-year-old could write that

Poetry awards and conflict of interest (not what you think…)

Best books of 2008 as chosen by Stephen King, the Atlantic, and Joe the Plumber

Court ruling doesn’t faze author of Harry Potter encyclopedia

Depressed economy not all bad news for publishers

Updike honoured for a lifetime of bad sex

Bad Sex nominees cover everything from Adam and Eve to the smell of soup

Random House to digitize a whole mess o’ books

The Simpsons: lexicographical gatekeepers

Something to get excited about?

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