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Bookmarks: hybrid readers, seasonal reading, and more

James Frey was an intern for a day at Gawker.com. Readers were invited to post questions for him -- Oprah jokes and inquiries about his fact-checking process ensued What's your seasonal reading pattern? Molly Flatt ... Read More »

December 12, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book links

“Books make great gifts”

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

There are less than two weeks until Christmas, and didja know that books make great gifts? If you didn't, the aptly named BooksAreGreatGifts.com will tell you why, with a Youtube video of various authors and ... Read More »

December 12, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

More favourite books of 2008

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

The L.A. Times has put together a special "Favorite Books of 2008" issue, and there are a few honourable mentions for CanLit. In fiction and poetry, Miriam Toews's The Flying Troutmans has a spot alongside ... Read More »

December 9, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Anosh Irani in the NYT

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

An op-ed piece by Canadian novelist and playwright Anosh Irani appears online in The New York Times today. Irani, who was born in Mumbai, writes about the seige of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel during ... Read More »

December 2, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Opinion

Bookmarks: Batman RIP, the cost of discounting books, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

POW! Holy shock value, Batman! The Caped Crusader is set to be killed off after 70 years in Batman RIP, according to the comic's writers. Paper Tiger's Sam Leith discusses The Guardian looks at the ... Read More »

November 25, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book links

147 authors up for the Impac Dublin Prize

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

The longlist for the richest award for writing in English has been announced. And the longlist is, in fact, long, with 147 authors in contention for the 2009 Impac Dublin prize of £100,000. From the ... Read More »

November 12, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Libraries

CPYT is for Charles Pachter on YouTube

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Cormorant Books has posted a video from Cormorant Films (which, as the disclaimer notes, does not actually exist ... yet) of M Is For Moose author Charles Pachter reading Further Arrivals by Margaret Atwood, which ... Read More »

November 12, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

You are what you read – presidential candidates edition

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Recently Katie Couric asked the presidential candidates about their favourite books, but Jon Meacham goes into more detail on the subject in The New York Times, arguing that a president's literary interests can tell us ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Bookmarks: Adiga’s agent, Small Beer for Obama, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Booker winner Aravind Adiga clarifies when and why he dumped his agent, and it wasn't about money. Phew! Small Beer Press, a small press in North Carolina Massachusetts, is donating 20% of this month's sales ... Read More »

October 28, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book links

Tony Hillerman dead at 83

By Steven W. Beattie

In what is becoming a sad Monday ritual, news has broken about the death of a major literary figure over the weekend. Mystery writer Tony Hillerman, whose Navajo Tribal Police novels were perennial bestsellers, died ... Read More »

October 27, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

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