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Power in a union

Jason Sullivan, who works at the Robson Street Chapters store in Vancouver, isn’t your typical chain employee: he helped organize a union at the store in 2005, bringing the employees into the service sector local ... Read More »

January 3, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Toronto sings of itself

By Leigh Anne Williams

Attention Toronto poets: get set to celebrate (or lament) your city! The Torontoist is looking for new poems about Toronto, about Torontonians, or set in Toronto. Entries are due on March 15, and the winning ... Read More »

January 3, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

On drinking and writing

By Nathan Whitlock

If you want to give your Christmas party this year a literary flavour, you can refer to Hemingway & Bailey's Bartending Guide to Great American Writers, written by Mark Bailey and illustrated by Edward Hemingway ... Read More »

December 15, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Dude's all like "vengeance is mine" and shit

By Leigh Anne Williams

In The New Yorker, Daniel Radosh looks at the business of Bible publishing, concentrating on the Nashville-based giant Thomas Nelson Publishers. Of particular interest to Radosh is the brand extension strategy -- keeping the Bible ... Read More »

December 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The problem with Blitcons

By Nathan Whitlock

Although the famous have come to his defence in the question of plagiarism or fair borrowing as historical research, will anyone defend Ian McEwan from Ziauddin Sardar's charge in New Statesman that he, Martin Amis, ... Read More »

December 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The story of the French and the English

By Nathan Whitlock

The Story of French (St. Martin's Press) by Canadian authors Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow is reviewed in The New York Times and praised as "a well-told, highly accessible history of the French language that ... Read More »

December 1, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Judges wowed by bulging trousers

By Leigh Anne Williams

A literary prize presented by none other than Courtney Love? Ah, it can only be the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. As AP writer Jill Lawless reports, this year's honour was taken by ... Read More »

November 30, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

New book for Roth, new owner for Houghton Mifflin

By Leigh Anne Williams

Approaching old age, Philip Roth continues to write at a busy pace. A squib in The New York Times reports that Roth is set to publish the ninth and final book featuring his longtime doppelganger, ... Read More »

November 30, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

"Plagiarists," your days are numbered

By Cassandra Drudi

In what the New York Times is calling "a literary imbroglio," Ian McEwan's sources and inspirations for his bestselling novel Atonement have come under close media scrutiny. The bloggers are all over this one, and ... Read More »

November 28, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The long arm of the law

By Nathan Whitlock

The big roundup of alleged Mafia members in Montreal this week may be good timing for the authors of The Sixth Family, The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto. ... Read More »

November 24, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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