Kenneth J. Harvey's novel Inside won the 2006 Winterset Award at Government House in St. John's, Newfoundland on March 29. The International Board on Books for Young People's biennial fundraiser was held at Toronto's Lula ... Read More »
Is it early 2006 already? Slate is tapping into the hot (OK, cooling) topic of memoirs with "Memoir Week," a series of articles on the form, as well as first-person essays by authors. Among the ... Read More »
March 29, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
Jane Austen, though a much beloved author, is apparently not hot enough to sell books. According to an article posted on the Guardian's website, Wordsworth editions is Photoshopping a more appealing portrait of her for ... Read More »
March 27, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
Canadian author Craig Davidson is part of a he said/she said discussion on Nerve.com of American author Charlie LeDuff's new book US Guys (or Us Guys, depending on your interpretation) in which LeDuff explores 11 ... Read More »
Minor characters are often as intriguing as the main characters they are complementing. In an article from the Los Angeles Times, Julia Klein explores the genre of fiction that takes those minor characters and makes ... Read More »
March 20, 2007 | Filed under: Authors
Readers who have, in the course of literature studies or even inadvertently in a conversation over too much coffee or red wine in a café, stumbled into the thorny question of "literary criticism – what ... Read More »
March 9, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has a lot to celebrate, reports the CBC. The author turns 80 today, and this year also marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of his classic novel One Hundred ... Read More »
March 6, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
The U.K. literary journal Granta has compiled a new list of 20 "best young American novelists," whose work will be featured in the next issue. Granta's done this with British writers multiple times, and once ... Read More »
March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Authors
When the third question in an author interview is "Are you suggesting that having sexual feelings for little girls is normal?" you know the writer's new book isn't your typical CanLit meditation on memory and ... Read More »
March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
The BBC reports that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice topped a survey of more than 2,000 British book lovers as the book they just couldn't live without, besting The Bible, which was sixth from the ... Read More »
March 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
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