by Stuart Woods

Conrad Black, cyborg, vs. Jean Chretien, memoirist

At a book signing in Toronto last night, Conrad Black appeared "relaxed and smiling" from his home in Palm Beach, where Black is spending time ahead of sentencing next month in Chicago. Sitting at the ... Read More »

October 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Ghetto lit goes mainstream

By Stuart Woods

Possibly the most vital – and certainly the most gratuitous – debate in American letters is occurring almost entirely under the radar. The controversy surrounds a body of work referred to variously as ghetto, urban, ... Read More »

October 16, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Love letters by CanLit icons are for adults only

By Stuart Woods

Canadian authors are well represented in a book of fictional love letters, titled Four Letter Word, which is being published by Knopf Canada in 2008. Prior to its release, Times Online is inviting readers to ... Read More »

October 11, 2007

Love letters by CanLit icons are for adults only

By Stuart Woods

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Doris Lessing captures Nobel Prize in Literature

By Stuart Woods

Doris Lessing is the 2007 Nobel laureate in literature – and only the 11th woman in the prize's 106-year history. Presented this morning in Stockholm, the citation describes Lessing as "that epicist of the female ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

U.K. exports censorious libel laws

By Stuart Woods

Just in time for Banned Books Week, which runs until Oct. 6, The New York Times reports how a loophole in English law, combined with the globalized booktrade, may have a deleterious effect on freedom ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Tomine to Lethem: butt out, smartypants

By Stuart Woods

Comics artist Adrian Tomine tells The Believer that excessive praise for his just-released graphic novel Shortcomings – which was serialized in his popular comic Optic Nerve – makes him uneasy. Specifically, he raises doubts that ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon and Penguin want your unpublished novel

By Stuart Woods

Not content to be sidelined by the literary establishment any longer, Amazon announced on Monday that it is teaming up with Penguin Group to launch a new prize for unpublished novelists. Appropriately, the "jury" is ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Disgruntled writer offers literary agents a raise

By Stuart Woods

The Guardian's weekend edition features an opinion piece by writer and filmmaker Martin Wagner, who is obviously still stinging from the rejection letters he received from agents as a young novelist. The crux of the ... Read More »

September 25, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Salman Rushdie steps up to the plate for new media

By Stuart Woods

Readers of this space will know that a favourite hobby of book reviewers is publicly agonizing over the apparent decline of their craft. One of the most keen proponents of this view is former Los ... Read More »

September 25, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

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Conrad Black, cyborg, vs. Jean Chretien, memoirist

Ghetto lit goes mainstream

Love letters by CanLit icons are for adults only

Love letters by CanLit icons are for adults only

Doris Lessing captures Nobel Prize in Literature

U.K. exports censorious libel laws

Tomine to Lethem: butt out, smartypants

Amazon and Penguin want your unpublished novel

Disgruntled writer offers literary agents a raise

Salman Rushdie steps up to the plate for new media

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