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Wonder Woman turns 66

A couple of literary-themed birthdays are being reported in the media this week. Reuters has picked up on Wonder Woman's 66th birthday “ not much of a milestone, admittedly, but 2007 is, incredibly, the first ... Read More »

December 11, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Stop reading this blog, says Doris Lessing

By Nathan Whitlock

From The Guardian: The inanities of the internet have seduced a generation, and we live in a fragmenting culture where people read nothing and know nothing of the world, the new Nobel laureate novelist Doris ... Read More »

December 10, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Opinion

Indigo’s Love of Reading: The Motion Picture

By Scott MacDonald

Many of you faithful industry watchers have probably already heard tell of the short documentary that Indigo CEO Heather Reisman commissioned earlier this year about the "crisis" in school libraries. It's called Writing on the ... Read More »

December 7, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

French erotica … at the library

By Nathan Whitlock

From The Canadian Press: Ribald and X-rated, a new exhibit at France's national library is banned to anyone under 16. The exhibit that opened this week offers a peek at France's long-secret library of libido, ... Read More »

December 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

The Golden Compass gets yanked in Calgary, too

By Nathan Whitlock

And on it goes: another school board has pulled Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass from its shelves following a parental complaint “ this despite the fact that the book was published more than 10 years ... Read More »

December 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Is the e-book revolution half-empty or half-full?

By Stuart Woods

Bad news, folks: new technology like the Kindle will enable the greedy, unruly masses to bankrupt the publishing industry as we know it. Glum futurist and TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sounds the death knell on ... Read More »

December 4, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Martin Amis throws vinegar in old wound, opens new one

By Stuart Woods

The latest salvos in the Amis/Eagleton polemic come from the increasingly rancorous novelist himself, who penned an earnest rebuttal in Saturday's Guardian “ "No, I am not a racist," pleads the headline “ and then ... Read More »

December 4, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Counting on The Globe and Mail‘s 100

By Nathan Whitlock

As it does every year, The Globe and Mail's book section published its "Globe 100" this weekend, a list of the 100 top-reviewed books of the year (with some exceptions: no anthologies were included, for ... Read More »

December 3, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Black via LongPen

By Scott MacDonald

As had been predicted, convicted fraudster Conrad Black has made use of Margaret Atwood's LongPen again, to promote his new Richard Nixon bio overseas. Lord Black, who is barred from leaving the United States as ... Read More »

November 30, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Reading outside of the book

By Stuart Woods

Despite its klunky design and prohibitive cost, the Kindle ebook reader is the beginning of the end of publishing as we know it, according to Guardian blogger and budding futurist Rob Woodard. Not only that, ... Read More »

November 27, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

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