On Tom Bartlett's blog, Minor Tweaks, nestled among delightful non-sequitur features that include letters to consumer products (they, or rather their representatives, answer), dead celebrity iTunes playlists, and cheese reviews, is a send-up of James ... Read More »
January 10, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Men robbing banks with pitchforks; pythons eating cats, turkeys, and alligators; and police handcuffing kindergarten-aged kids: according to three recent books, all this and more goes down in Florida."I'm already putting together a file for ... Read More »
January 4, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
The British fondness for excremental humour gets its due in a piece by Louise Jury in The Independent. According to Jury, there's a new mini-trend sweeping -- or perhaps clogging -- British publishing lists. "Shit ... Read More »
December 5, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
In his latest Geist column, author Stephen Henighan -- who also teaches at the University of Guelph -- discusses his frustration with having to use an American textbook for his basic-Spanish-language course."I wasn't surprised by ... Read More »
December 1, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
On Thursday night in Toronto, reporters swarmed a party (hosted by none other than former Ontario Premier Mike Harris) for a new book published by John Wiley & Sons Canada, Rescuing Canada's Right: Blueprint for ... Read More »
November 25, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
The Queen's Journal took an extended look at books in last week's issue. Stories included an interview with Kingston author Steven Heighton, a look at CanLit stereotypes, and an examination of why so many writers ... Read More »
November 25, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
For the second year in a row, the Ontario literary website Good Reports has put together a "runaway jury" to pick a winner from the Governor General's Award shortlist in the poetry category. Good Reports ... Read More »
November 24, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
The website The Literary Saloon has done some stats-gathering on titles covered in recent issues of The New York Times Book Review, and the data may not be encouraging for fiction authors and publishers. From ... Read More »
November 24, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
Last week, Lewis Lapham announced his decision to step down from his 24-year-long post as editor-in-chief of Harper's, saying to The New York Times, "I have a certain number of years left and a number ... Read More »
November 23, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
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