Author David Eddie, who wrote an advice column for the now-defunct Toro magazine, is doing something similar for The Globe and Mail's ... Read More »
May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
A bit of New York literary history ended yesterday, the New York Times reports, as the inventory of Gotham Book Mart in midtown Manhattan was sold off to the highest bidder. The bookstore had served ... Read More »
May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news
Comic-book publishers have always been archivally minded, but they're getting more and more so lately. Capitalizing on the buzz around graphic novels and cartooning, some houses are putting together lovingly packaged multi-volume collections of yesteryear's ... Read More »
May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
Two years ago in Vancouver, five Canadian poets got together for a panel discussion on the state of the art, and tried to hash out whether Margaret Atwood's seminal CanLit study Survival has energized or ... Read More »
May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
Turning 50 is often the catalyst for reflection, re-examination, and the occasional mid-life crisis. Quillblog hopes the Canada Council for the Arts is nowhere near its mid-life point, but in its 50th anniversary year, the ... Read More »
May 16, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
The publication of a couple of office-set novels, Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End and Jenny Turner's The Brainstorm, has writer DJ Taylor wondering (in The Independent) why there aren't more novels about ... Read More »
May 10, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
Design Observer has an interesting essay by Alice Twemlow of the School of Visual Arts in New York contemplating the sheer abundance of books now being produced. According to the Mexican critic Gabriel Zaid, writing ... Read More »
May 9, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
Daniel Levitin, the McGill University professor of neuroscience and music and author of the 2006 book This Is Your Brain on Music (Dutton/Penguin), converses with former Talking Head and rock renaissance man David Byrne for ... Read More »
May 3, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
In The New York Times, arts reporter Motoko Rich uses the recent contraction of mainstream book review coverage as a springboard to discuss ye olde Blogs vs Newspapers debate. To some authors and critics, [review ... Read More »
May 3, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
Granta's new "Best of Young American Novelists 2" issue is now out (the followup to a 1996 issue), and The Los Angeles Times looks at the under-35 authors who made the cut this time, noting ... Read More »
April 26, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
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