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Write well, lead well

In a Guardian blog post today, writer Rob Woodard asks whether or not you can predict how well a president will lead based on how well he writes: Attempting to predict the quality of an ... Read More »

November 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Obama a literary winner, too

By Scott MacDonald

In the wake of Barack Obama's historic win last night, The Christian Science Monitor takes a look at the current sales status of Obama's two books “ his 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father and ... Read More »

November 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Twilight filmmakers have a stake in sticking closely to the book

By Steven W. Beattie

There's an old saw that says never judge a book by its movie. For the makers of Twilight, the upcoming film based on the first book in the gajillion-selling series of teen vampire novels by ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

American author Studs Terkel dead at 96

By Steven W. Beattie

Continuing our sad Monday-morning ritual, there's a significant literary death from over the weekend to mention. Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian and radio personality Studs Terkel died last Friday after a long illness. Terkel, whose adopted ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

It was a dark and stormy night…

By Scott MacDonald

Some Halloween-themed lit links: The top 10 ghost stories of all time (The Guardian) An interview with Stephen King on the 30th anniversary of The Stand (Salon) Book critic Laura Miller on why girls dig ... Read More »

October 31, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Doing the Harper shuffle

By Steven W. Beattie

Ordinary working people in the arts community who were miffed by the Conservative government's $45-million cuts to a broad array of arts programs may have reason to breathe a bit easier today. Josée Verner, the ... Read More »

October 30, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Google, publishers settle book-scanning suit

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Google will pay $125-million to settle a class-action lawsuit with The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers over its book-scanning project. As part of the agreement, Google will expand its Book Search program ... Read More »

October 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Oprah’s love affair with the Amazon Kindle

By Steven W. Beattie

The de facto Queen of All Media has gone digital. Last week, Amazon's Kindle e-reader got a powerful celebrity endorsement from Oprah Winfrey, who declared that the gadget is "absolutely [her] new favorite thing in ... Read More »

October 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Danielle Steel and the stink of success

By Stuart Woods

What does a bestseller smell like? The creative team at Elizabeth Arden is wagering that people will be curious to find out with its latest celebrity fragrance, Danielle by Danielle Steel. But according to T ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

School board superintendent not anti-gay … says school board superintendent

By Steven W. Beattie

Last week, Quillblog pointed to a CBC story about a Charlotte County, New Brunswick school board that rescinded an invitation to openly gay author Alex Sanchez to speak to high school students in their district ... Read More »

October 23, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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