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What’s Left?

Terry Glavin has written a feature on Nick Cohen, “one of Britain’s most consistently caustic and passionate left-wing writers,” on The Tyee observing that Cohen’s new book, What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way, points ... Read More »

February 9, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

PEN Canada’s wartime inventory

By Nathan Whitlock

An array of high-profile authors and musicians will gather at the Toronto Reference Library on the evening of Feb. 23 for a Freedom to Read event titled “Inventory: Writers Tracking War and Conflict,” sponsored by ... Read More »

February 9, 2007 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

World may not be totally nuts after all

By Leigh Anne Williams

Update: an Ontario Catholic school board has restored David Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars to its library shelves, after considering one parent's complaint about "bad language." Craig MacBride in The Mississauga News has the ... Read More »

February 8, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Bethune on Roberts

By Leigh Anne Williams

Maclean's books columnist Brian Bethune has posted a blog entry on the Paul William Roberts plagiarism controversy. (Quick recap: a few passages in Roberts' book A War Against Truth were found to have been lifted ... Read More »

February 8, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Penney keeps on winning

By Leigh Anne Williams

Scottish novelist Stef Penney has won the Costa book of the year prize for her Canada-set historical novel The Tenderness of Wolves (published here by Penguin Canada and reviewed by Q&Q here). Penney had already ... Read More »

February 8, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Put down the scissors

By Alison Jones

In a post on The Guardian's book blogs, Kathryn Hughes discusses the publication of compact versions of classic novels. Hughes supports the idea of cutting out the “ambling byways, baffling dead-ends and sudden jumps of ... Read More »

February 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

Resistance is futile

By Nathan Whitlock

Entertainment Weekly’s books editor, Tina Jordan, has been writing about the conundrum she faced when she discovered that her bright, bookish daughter was reading a trashy Gossip Girl novel. Discounting taking the book away as ... Read More »

February 2, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

J.K. Rowling slept here

By Nathan Whitlock

The BBC reports that author J.K. Rowling marked the completion of her last Harry Potter novel by scribbling on a decorative statue in a room at the posh Edinburgh Balmoral Hotel, where she had been ... Read More »

February 2, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

The advent of WikiLit

By Leigh Anne Williams

The ghost of Roland Barthes must be happy these days, as we move just a little closer to his wished-for "death of the author." As The Guardian reports, publisher Penguin is teaming up with De ... Read More »

February 1, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Harry Potter and the Lawyerly Embargoes

By Leigh Anne Williams

Let the media frenzy and the court injunctions begin: the publication date for the seventh and final Harry Potter novel has been announced. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will hit bookstore shelves worldwide – ... Read More »

February 1, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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