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Vermont: Canada's newest province

Earlier this year, The Guardian's Culture Vulture blog made a New Year's resolution of a kind: to embark on a world literature tour spotlighting work from countries overlooked on the literary map; that is to ... Read More »

March 22, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

How to make a bookstore window display

By Leigh Anne Williams

Michael Cho is a Toronto cartoonist whose work will have a familiar look to folks who shop at Pages Books & Magazines -- Cho has designed the occasional display for the Queen Street store's main ... Read More »

March 3, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Flann O'Brien novel Lost and found

By Leigh Anne Williams

Every now and then we book-related toilers are reminded (as if we needed to be) just who's winning the war for people's attention in today's cultural battleground. To wit, The New York Times checks in ... Read More »

February 23, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Bookselling

Grist for the publicity mill?

By Scott MacDonald

If advances accurately reflect the quality of books, the English-born, Edmonton-raised Matthew Skelton is the best kidlit writer you've never heard of – yet. After his story "The Man Who Did Not Dream" was chosen ... Read More »

February 21, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Oprah's not the only one out for blood

By Scott MacDonald

With book clubs being touted as part of the future of book marketing, the idea of author visits to book club meetings is getting more and more popular with publishers and writers. Meetings are seen ... Read More »

February 15, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

Americans and Europeans are superior writers — American university finds

By Scott MacDonald

For the geeky list-lovers among us, the University of Illinois's American Book Review has on its website what it calls the "100 Best First Lines from Novels." The list is filled with the usual suspects ... Read More »

January 31, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

Black bile? Yes, indeed.

By Scott MacDonald

In an essay originally published in his magazine Front & Centre and republished on The Danforth Review, Ottawa writer and Black Bile Press editor Matthew Firth calls for the end of literary prizes and contests ... Read More »

January 24, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Book news, Opinion

The view from Canada on classic short stories

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's a parade of Chekhov, Carver, Joyce, and, of course, Alice Munro over at The Danforth Review. The literary website has asked 27 Canadian writers to craft a "Short Story 101" syllabus: "TDR asked 27 ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

Nobel-nominated author, Crips founder, Tookie Williams executed

By Scott MacDonald

At 12:35 a.m. PST this morning, Stanley "Tookie" Williams, convicted murderer, gang founder, and Nobel Prize-nominated children's and YA author, was executed by lethal injection at the San Quentin State Prison just outside of San ... Read More »

December 13, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Vanity Fair comes to town

By Leigh Anne Williams

Vanity Fair's promised survey of the Toronto literary scene has materialized on the magazine's website. VF writer Anderson Tepper hit the International Festival of Authors at Toronto's Harbourfront in October, inspired by an earlier visit ... Read More »

December 12, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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