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Pullman leads U.K. children’s author revolt

As we noted in Quillblog last week, British children's book publishers are gearing up to begin putting recommended age ranges on the covers of all their books. According to a new piece in The Daily ... Read More »

June 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Return of the Sputnik library

By Nathan Whitlock

From Torontoist.com After more than twenty months of renovations that saw the building completely gutted, the S. Walter Stewart branch of the Toronto Public Library is finally reopening tomorrow. If you grew up in East ... Read More »

May 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Lawrence Hill on black writing

By Nathan Whitlock

Recent Commonwealth Prize winner Lawrence Hill has an essay/review on black writing in the latest issue of Bookforum. Writing about the books his daughters are required to read in school, he notes that "one and ... Read More »

May 26, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

Is criticism dead?

By Scott MacDonald

Salon's two chief literary critics, Laura Miller and Louis Bayard, have posted a lengthy discussion about the state of literary criticism in North America, which begins with the following question: in the age of blogging, ... Read More »

May 23, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Coloroso’s publisher weighs in

By Scott MacDonald

Over the past week, the Toronto District School Board's decision to pull Barbara Coloroso's Extraordinary Evil from a Grade 11 course has continued to draw criticism from the literary community. Yesterday, Coloroso's publisher “ Penguin ... Read More »

May 23, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Down to the Dirt at Cannes

By Scott MacDonald

The 61st annual Cannes Film Festival kicked off this week, and there is going to be a little bit of CanLit content in the mix. Director Justin Simms is making his feature debut there with ... Read More »

May 16, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

It wasn’t easy being Fleming

By Scott MacDonald

Spy novelist and Guardian blogger Charles Cumming takes a closer look at the writing-life of James Bond author Ian Fleming, and decides that the myths have overshadowed the truth somewhat. On the face of it, ... Read More »

May 9, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Critics stony towards Angel

By Scott MacDonald

The recent parade of big-budget CanLit film adaptations that began with Emotional Arithmetic and Fugitive Pieces continues this week with the release of The Stone Angel, starring American actress Ellen Burstyn. Not surprisingly, critics are ... Read More »

May 9, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Trouble continues to brew for ex-commando author

By Nathan Whitlock

From the Toronto Star: It's a tell-all book about an elite military unit the Department of National Defence didn't want published for reasons of national security, and now pointed questions are being raised over whether ... Read More »

May 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

The story of &

By Jacob Sheen

In recent weeks, the font nerds over at Hoefler & Frere-Jones have taken readers on an exciting adventure in kerning and answered their burning questions about the origins of the pilcrow. This week, they recount ... Read More »

April 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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