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Twilight fans invade sleepy U.S. town

From The Guardian: Residents of Forks, Washington State, are still stunned by what a piece of assiduous Googling from Twilight author Stephenie Meyer has unleashed on their town. Looking for the US's rainiest location in ... Read More »

July 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Atwood’s LongPen comes in handy for The Year of the Flood

By Stuart Woods

When her previous novel, Oryx and Crake, was published six years ago, Margaret Atwood was unable to make use of the LongPen, her quirky invention that allows authors to do remote book signings. But with ... Read More »

July 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

E-love you forever: website will read bedtime stories to your kids

By Nathan Whitlock

From Your Local Guardian: Hardworking fathers can still read their children a bedtime story in their absence, thanks to a new invention by a Kingston father-of-two. Chris Coombs, 44, has come up with a personalised ... Read More »

July 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: snobbery in the age of Kindle, Kerouac and the canon, and bigamy proves a boon

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: James Wolcott wonders, "What's a Culture Snob to Do?" in the age of Kindle, iPods, etc. Should Kerouac be kicked out of the canon? That old story: woman finds out her husband ... Read More »

July 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

She’ll be seein’ ya: Julie Wilson ends Seen Reading

By Suzanne Gardner

After almost three years, Julie Wilson, creator of the blog Seen Reading, has decided to end the popular literary voyeur project. For those unfamiliar with Seen Reading, Wilson spots people reading in public, notes the ... Read More »

July 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Three men sentenced for firebombing U.K. publisher

By Nathan Whitlock

From CBC.ca: A judge in Britain has sentenced three Muslim men to 4½ years in prison each for an arson attack on the home of a publisher of a novel about the child bride of ... Read More »

July 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Burned holy books to be symbolically buried, maybe

By Nathan Whitlock

In the Israel-Palestine conflict, symbolism is everything. And there is a small tussle going on right now that is so heavy with symbolism, it might as well be an Ingmar Bergman film. At issue is ... Read More »

July 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Are e-book ads the way of the future?

By Suzanne Gardner

The Internet's been abuzz with news of some recently filed Amazon patents. A blog post on the Fast Company website looks at two of the patents, which point toward a new future in which ads ... Read More »

July 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Lahiri vs. Gallant, Calvin and Hobbes, Elizabeth Gilbert, and more

By Suzanne Gardner

Some bookish links: The National Post reports on Jhumpa Lahiri's 53-page interview with Mavis Gallant in the summer 2009 issue of Granta, a back-and-forth battle in which Lahiri constantly works to make her presence felt, ... Read More »

July 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Literary types come out to support Oxfam Bookfest

By Steven W. Beattie

Rare 1st ed. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, signed by the author “ like magic, a new school “ £9,000. No, it's not an ad on eBay: those are lines from U.K. poet laureate ... Read More »

July 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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