American author Lauren Mechling has a first-person piece on the CBC Arts site about her struggle for literary respectability. "When I tell people I write teen fiction," she writes, "they tend to chuckle condescendingly, or ... Read More »
It all began with an Ottawa Sun article in which reporter Kathleen Harris appeared to question the work ethic of George Bowering during his two-year term as Canada's parliamentary poet laureate. "Bowering was paid $12,000 ... Read More »
May 1, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
Following the recent death of Frank Conroy, novelist Lan Samantha Chang is taking over as the director of the venerated Iowa Writers' Workshop. The New York Times looks at Chang's plans going into the job ... Read More »
April 18, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
The release of Sheila Heti's debut novel, Ticknor -- following a highly visible short-story collection, The Middle Stories, in 2000 -- has kicked off a round of profiles. CBC Arts plays up House of Anansi ... Read More »
March 28, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
The unsound ethics of poetry contests is a hot topic in the U.S. these days -- one that Canadian poet and essayist Zach Wells has now tackled on the Bookninja.com site. Wells is not so ... Read More »
March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Industry news, Opinion
Another Canadian-authored book with a retooled foreign title got some notice this weekend. Pauline Holdstock's Giller-nominated novel Beyond Measure (Cormorant Books) was featured in the New York Times Book Review, where reviewer Suzy Hansen argues ... Read More »
March 7, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
Geist magazine's Stephen Osborne asks why certain writers -- Pierre Berton chief among them -- have traditionally been considered tragically unhip by certain literati, despite their popular appeal. And in "certain literati" Osborne includes a ... Read More »
January 24, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
The best-of-intentions book deal that just doesn't work out is a common occupational hazard for both authors and publishers. But what happens when the publisher wants its advance back, and the author says he doesn't ... Read More »
December 6, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
It's a tale of production specs and hurt feelings. Megan Kelso put together Scheherazade, an anthology of female cartoonists for the New York City indie Soft Skull Press (which, though it's a propos of nothing ... Read More »
November 29, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
National Post reporter Isabel Vincent has filed the second installment in her look at the publication of Richard B. Wright's new novel, Adultery. Part one looked at the marketing plan and spotlighted HarperCollins Canada publicity ... Read More »
September 27, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
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