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Couldn't get a ticket, it was a sold-out show

Author Kenneth J. Harvey is known for sending out regular e-mail updates about his career to an ever-growing list of people. (In fact, he's written about it for Q&Q.) But after years of building up ... Read More »

March 1, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Foot in mouth disease

By Alison Jones

A post from The American Prospect reports on a verbal blunder made by one of the New York Times Book Review’s editors, Barry Gewen, at a lecture he gave recently. Gewen, who was introduced by ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Words from Guantanamo Bay

By Alison Jones

As reported in the Guardian, a collection of poems written by detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be published this August by the University of Iowa Press. Lawyer Marc Falkoff, who represents 17 people at the ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Black's legal and linguistic battles

By Nathan Whitlock

Conrad Black has followed through on a promise to file "the mother of all libel statements of claim" against Tom Bower, author of Conrad & Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge, The Globe and Mail ... Read More »

February 23, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

A tournament? Of books?

By Leigh Anne Williams

The U.S. website The Morning News has announced its lineup of contenders for this year's "Tournament of Books." The annual event features a group of litbloggers and critics pitting 16 notable novels of the past ... Read More »

February 22, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Please, won't someone think of the children?

By Alison Jones

The latest news in book banning is courtesy of some U.S. school librarians who are refusing to carry the Newbery award-winning The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron. The librarians are in a tizzy ... Read More »

February 20, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Battling bureaucracy

By Nathan Whitlock

The New York Times has more details of the recently discovered letters from Anne Frank's father, Otto, written as he desperately tried to find a way to get his family out of Amsterdam and into ... Read More »

February 16, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

What I meant to say…

By Nathan Whitlock

Richard Warnica has posted an interview with author Edeet Ravel on The Tyee site discussing her reasons for significantly rewriting her second novel, Look for Me, after it was published. Ravel initially posted her revised ... Read More »

February 16, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

NYTBR's Tanenhaus vs. the litbloggers

By Leigh Anne Williams

Knight News writer Michael Orbach has a longish interview with New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus about the premises and methodology that go into the section. Though many litbloggers' occasionally over-the-top anger about ... Read More »

February 15, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Professors Rushdie and Amis

By Leigh Anne Williams

Nearly everyone has a bad Valentine's Day story – and there are undoubtedly a few more out there after yesterday – but few can top Salman Rushdie's. The Ayatollah Khomeini's murderous fatwa against the author ... Read More »

February 15, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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