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Just in case you missed it over the Christmas break, Toronto Star columnist Joey Slinger points out that Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrote an article for the Star on Dec. 23 about the 100th anniversary ... Read More »

January 5, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Munro: going, going….

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Alice Munro retirement dance continues. The Toronto Star’s Judy Stoffman keeps the story alive with a new piece reminding readers that Munro said back in October that she’s completed four more stories yet to ... Read More »

January 3, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Revenge: the healing journey

By Leigh Anne Williams

Elvis Costello once said his work was mainly driven by "guilt and revenge." That apparently goes for Michael Crichton, too, if you replace "guilt" with "environmental catastrophe denial." As The New York Times reports, Crichton ... Read More »

December 14, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

All hail the information alchemists

By Leigh Anne Williams

This Is London reports on a British councillor, Alex Aiken, who has called on the library field to redefine itself. Mr. Aiken, a former policy director for the Tories, told a conference of the Public ... Read More »

December 1, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Sony Reader rated

By Nathan Whitlock

Charles McGrath has been "test driving" the lastest e-book device from Sony and has reviewed it for The New York Times. Although the technology has come a long way, he says, the Sony Reader still ... Read More »

November 24, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

And the O.J. shocks keep coming

By Leigh Anne Williams

Holy moly! HarperCollins parent company News Corporation has pulled the plug on the O.J. Simpson book that was set to launch to universal revulsion next week; a planned interview special on Fox TV (another News ... Read More »

November 20, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

O.J. did it (wrote a book, that is)

By Cassandra Drudi

Yesterday, the Book Standard pointed out that, according to a National Enquirer news item, O.J. Simpson has been paid $3.5-million for a tell-all book entitled If I Did It. According to the Enquirer, the book ... Read More »

October 20, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Reports of Chomsky's demise greatly exaggerated

By Nathan Whitlock

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez not only stirred things up this week with his address to the U.N., in which he referred to President George W. Bush as the devil, he also started an incorrect rumour ... Read More »

September 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

The 3-Day Novel Contest on BookTelevision

By Nathan Whitlock

It's reality TV, but it's fiction. Many would argue that all reality television is fiction, but in this case, the digital channel BookTelevision plans to film and broadcast the writing of fiction. The typical writer ... Read More »

September 1, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Sci-fi groping brouhaha

By Cassandra Drudi

Harlan Ellison brought some much-needed scandale to the Hugos when he groped fellow sci-fi scribe Connie Willis and kissed her for good measure when accepting his Special Committee Award this week. He also put the ... Read More »

August 30, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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