You can meet your favourite author, but you'll have to buy a ticket Ouch, that hurts: 30 of the nastiest author-on-author insults Contrary to media reports, Lady Gaga and philosopher Slavoj Žižek are not caught ... Read More »
Barrie, Ontario, artist Amy Switzer's latest exhibition, Bird Call, investigates our endless fascination with, and apparent need to anthropomorphize, animals (Lolcats, anyone?). For her lifelike paper-bird sculptures, which she contains under glass domes, Switzer layers ... Read More »
June 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Vancouver rioters caught on video burning books from Chapters Rapper 50 Cent to publish anti-bullying YA book Self-published author sells a million Kindle e-books Cringe-inducing passages by Philip K. Dick Attention writers (and Weakerthan fans) ... Read More »
June 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
He was perhaps best known for invoking the peace and love generation of the 1960s to "turn on, tune in, drop out," but Timothy Leary, the guru who advocated the mind-enhancing positive effects of LSD, ... Read More »
Together, crime writers Val McDermid, Patricia Cornwell, and Kathy Reichs (with help from the fictional forensic investigators on CSI and Bones) have introduced a whole new set of terms to the pop cultural lexicon “ ... Read More »
June 20, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Celebrate Bloomsday in eight different ways Asterix books contain over 700 traumatic brain injury victims T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land beats out Marvel comics and the Bible as the week's top-grossing iPad app Worldwide launch ... Read More »
June 16, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Daniel H. Wilson discusses his potentially prescient new novel Robopocalypse Sci-fi summer reading list from National Public Radio Vonnegut admitted that you're not always going to write an A plus book Nowadays, the pen name is losing ... Read More »
June 14, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul's intemperate remarks about women writers have caused a storm of backlash from the literary community, ranging from dismissiveness (Naipaul's former editor, Diana Athill, said his comments "just made [her] laugh") to ... Read More »
June 13, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Best-selling U.K. author Terry Pratchett has received the consent forms necessary to initiate the process of ending his life from Switzerland's Dignitas clinic. Pratchett, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, says the only thing preventing him ... Read More »
June 13, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Kidsbooks on Broadway in Vancouver has put up a kind of Lost meets Girls Gone Wild display for Brooklyn author Libba Bray's new YA novel Beauty Queens (Scholastic), about a bunch of teen beauty pageant ... Read More »
June 13, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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