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Kenneth Oppel in outer space

The 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing may be grabbing all the headlines today, so it's easy to overlook a bookish footnote to the historic milestone. According to a press release from the Canada ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Cheap irony alert: Orwell removed from Kindle

By Nathan Whitlock

From the Associated Press: A pirated e-book of 1984 led to an Orwellian moment for Kindle customers. Users of Amazon.com's e-reader device were surprised and unsettled over the past day to receive notice that George ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Frank McCourt, Yann Martel, Tom Wolfe, Harry Potter, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Frank McCourt dies at 78. Yann Martel's new novel gets a U.S. deal. Tom Wolfe says, "To the moon, America, to the moon..." Harry Potter books "very Talmudic." What's wrong with the ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Jane Austen, sea monsters, and Twilight comix: Enough already!!!

By Steven W. Beattie

This Quillblogger will confess to finding the premise behind Pride and Prejudice and Zombies irresistible: take Jane Austen's most famous novel (and one of the least likely books ever to be associated with zombies), and ... Read More »

July 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Publishers as the new newsies?

By Steven W. Beattie

There's an interesting piece on the January magazine blog about how the ongoing massacres at traditional newspapers are affecting the way publishers hawk shill promote talk about their books. The piece argues “ correctly, in ... Read More »

July 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Event photos: The Humber School for Writers’ summer workshop

By Stuart Woods

The Humber School for Writers' summer workshop kicked off on Tuesday in Toronto, attracting aspiring writers from across the country as well as a star-studded faculty of international talent. (Photos courtesy of Humber.) Nino Ricci ... Read More »

July 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Mavis wasn’t crazy about Mordecai

By Nathan Whitlock

Here's an excerpt from the interview Jhumpa Lahiri did with Mavis Gallant in the new issue of Granta. (We just thought it was funny...) MG: I remember one of the people around in that winter ... Read More »

July 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Author Frank McCourt may have only weeks to live

By Suzanne Gardner

The Independent in the U.K. is reporting that Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt may be near death. It was publicly announced in May that McCourt, who turns 79 next month, had been battling melanoma and ... Read More »

July 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Territorial copyright for Australian books at risk

By Suzanne Gardner

Australia's Productivity Commission has recommended to the federal government that it lift all restrictions on parallel importation of books, according to an article in The Sydney Morning Herald. Quillblog linked to this story back in ... Read More »

July 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Harry Potter and the Fickle Pope

By Suzanne Gardner

With the latest film adaptation of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, set to hit theatres at midnight tonight, a review in L'Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, has given the ... Read More »

July 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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