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Greasing the hype machine

A hot topic of conversation in the online literary community is the commercial success of The Traveler, an ambiguously fictional first novel written by the strangely pseudonymed John Twelve Hawks. Climbing the New York Times ... Read More »

September 12, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

I have my lifetime to regret everything in the book.

By Scott MacDonald

On the eve of the announcement of her place amongst Man Booker finalists, Zadie Smith gives a candid interview to New York magazine's Boris Kachka. Following a recent return to Britain from a Harvard fellowship, ... Read More »

September 9, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

World Literacy of Canada to launch Shooting Water

By Scott MacDonald

World Literacy of Canada recently announced that its fourth annual Eyes on India film series and book launch will be a special tribute to filmmaker Deepa Mehta. The event, taking place October 25 and 26 ... Read More »

September 8, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Want to change the world? Write a book.

By Scott MacDonald

Yesterday Lord Melvyn Bragg of ITV's The South Bank Show announced his picks for the 12 British books that changed the world. Resembling a reading list for first-year undergrads, the list spans 700 years and ... Read More »

September 8, 2005 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Flood book in high demand

By Scott MacDonald

Steven McElroy of The Associated Press reports on the online sales of a book about the 1927 flood along the Mississippi River. First published in 1998, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and ... Read More »

September 7, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Get 'em while they're young (and hip)

By Scott MacDonald

In an attempt to appeal to a younger readership, The New York Times Magazine is introducing a new front section that will feature work of interest to a younger demographic. The section is to include ... Read More »

September 7, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Penguin U.K. snubs Achebe and Baldwin in reprint line

By Leigh Anne Williams

Penguin in the U.K. has encountered some controversy over a reprint campaign tied into its 70th anniversary. The firm is reprinting 70 "Pocket Penguins" (short backlist and current titles) and The Guardian notes that only ... Read More »

May 24, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Teenage fanclub

By Leigh Anne Williams

American author Lauren Mechling has a first-person piece on the CBC Arts site about her struggle for literary respectability. "When I tell people I write teen fiction," she writes, "they tend to chuckle condescendingly, or ... Read More »

May 16, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

The Oprah effect, again

By Leigh Anne Williams

Recently, an author association dubbed Word of Mouth has made headlines by begging talk-show host Oprah Winfrey to reinstate her book club. (Or, rather, to restore it to its original purpose of concentrating on current ... Read More »

April 25, 2005 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling, Opinion

The trouble with contests

By Leigh Anne Williams

The unsound ethics of poetry contests is a hot topic in the U.S. these days -- one that Canadian poet and essayist Zach Wells has now tackled on the Bookninja.com site. Wells is not so ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Industry news, Opinion

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