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Filming Locations

Sponsored Blog Post: The Time Traveler's Wife is set in Chicago, the third largest city in the United States and was filmed in Fall 2007. Chicago's Newberry Library on West Walton Street is a primary ... Read More »

August 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Simon & Schuster’s bad year, Book Oven launches, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Simon & Schuster's operating profits decline by 58% for the year Gil Adamson featured in the Guardian Book Oven, a collaborative literary community run by BookCamp Toronto's Hugh McGuire, ... Read More »

August 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

It’s official: litmags to be cut out of CPF funding

By Stuart Woods

There will be no exceptions for small literary and cultural magazines under the new Canada Periodical Fund, the department of Canadian Heritage has confirmed. In a letter to The New Quarterly managing editor Rosalynn Tyo, ... Read More »

August 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplays

By Q&Q Staff

Sponsored Blog Post: Author Audrey Niffenegger joins a well-known group of female writers whose books have been adapted for the silver screen. This list includes: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Gone with the Wind ... Read More »

August 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

HarperCollins profits plummet

By Stuart Woods

HarperCollins suffered a massive decline in profits over the past 12 months, according to financial results posted yesterday by parent company NewsCorp. Operating income for the year plummeted to $17 million from $160 million in ... Read More »

August 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: new e-reader from Sony, Ignatieff’s a union man, censorship in Iraq, reading in Venezuela, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Sony to release two new e-readers Michael Ignatieff re-joins the Writers' Union Iraqi publishers worry about new censorship laws Venezuela's Revolutionary Reading Plan Arsenal Pulp re-designs and re-releases Hard Core Logo Even ... Read More »

August 5, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Stephenie Meyer a biter?

By Nathan Whitlock

According to gossip site TMZ.com, Stephenie Meyer is being accused of stealing parts of the fourth Twilight novel from a book by an author named Jordan Scott. TMZ links to the letter from Scott, detailing ... Read More »

August 5, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks, Britlit edition: Amis, McEwan, and Mitchell

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Ian McEwan tells the Guardian's Alison Flood about his new novel ... Read More »

August 4, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Hilary Mantel: an early Booker favourite

By Stuart Woods

Since being longlisted last week for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, British novelist Hilary Mantel has gone from being a relative outsider on a star-studded list to the overwhelming favourite to take home the £50,000 ... Read More »

August 4, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Rachel McAdams as Claire Tabshire

By Q&Q Staff

Sponsored Blog Post: Born in London, Ontario, Canadian actress Rachel McAdams plays artist Claire Tabshire in The Time Traveler's Wife. McAdams competed as a figure skater as a child and by age 13 was performing ... Read More »

August 4, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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