by Stuart Woods

Tweets for literary peeps

Today has been a big day for Twitter. (OK, lately every day seems like a big day for Twitter.) Over at The Globe and Mail, columnist Ian Brown conducted a live Twitter conversation over lunch, ... Read More »

March 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Hot Docs meets CanLit

By Stuart Woods

Hot Docs, the annual documentary film fest in Tornto, has released its spring lineup of 150 films. A couple of films with CanLit tie-ins have caught Quillblog's attention: Inside Hana's Suitcase tells the story behind ... Read More »

March 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Podcasts for poets

By Stuart Woods

Julie Wilson, recently in the headlines for her Indigo dust up, is launching a new project in conjunction with National Poetry Month in April. Wilson has invited 30 poets to submit recordings of themselves reading ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Michael Tamblyn’s six good ideas for the future of publishing

By Stuart Woods

BookNet Canada is getting around to posting videos from last week's technology forum, and the first one to go up is BookNet CEO Michael Tamblyn's talk entitled 6 Projects That Could Change Publishing for the ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: NBCC and James Wood on the best books

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Star literary agent Eric Simonoff, the man who landed Andrew Davidson $1.25-million for The Gargoyle, has jumped ship to a new agency, joining global talent agency William Morris. Back ... Read More »

March 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Notes from BNC’s tech forum

By Stuart Woods

About 225 industry people crowded into a Toronto conference room on Thursday for BookNet Canada's annual technology forum. The theme of this year's conference was evolution or revolution, though most of the speakers seemed to ... Read More »

March 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Julie Wilson’s Indigo entente

By Stuart Woods

Embattled lit blogger Julie Wilson, who was kicked out of a Toronto Indigo location earlier this week while doing research for her website Seen Reading, has come to an understanding with Indigo Books & Music ... Read More »

March 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Moore on Barthelme, Updike on Cheever, plus more shakeups in the U.S. retail sector

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Lorrie Moore reviews the new Donald Barthelme biography (you can hear her thoughts here). The late John Updike had an early look at the John Cheever biography. Apparently, one ... Read More »

March 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Coalition fights new litmag funding restrictions

By Stuart Woods

Last week, Q&Q reported on new federal funding guidelines that could imperil Canada's small literary and arts magazines, by limiting Canadian Heritage money to publications with annual paid circulations of at least 5,000. Now, a ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: reviews of Shortcovers, Mailer’s reviewers, and a new book for uppity editors

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: BookNet Canada's Michael Tamblyn offers a fairly enthusiastic review of Indigo's new e-books for iPhones app Shortcovers. Harper U.S. acquires Kerouac's unpublished first novel, about a man at sea. ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Tweets for literary peeps

Hot Docs meets CanLit

Podcasts for poets

Michael Tamblyn’s six good ideas for the future of publishing

Bookmarks: NBCC and James Wood on the best books

Notes from BNC’s tech forum

Julie Wilson’s Indigo entente

Bookmarks: Moore on Barthelme, Updike on Cheever, plus more shakeups in the U.S. retail sector

Coalition fights new litmag funding restrictions

Bookmarks: reviews of Shortcovers, Mailer’s reviewers, and a new book for uppity editors

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