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IFOA gets in on blog action

Harbourfront's International Festival of Authors has launched its very own blog to promote the festival over the next couple of months (this year's IFOA runs from October 18-28). So far, postings are few -- the ... Read More »

August 17, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Lawson in the running for Booker

By Leigh Anne Williams

Mary Lawson is representing for Canada on the Man Booker Prize longlist, which was announced today. Lawson's soon-to-be-released second novel, The Other Side of the Bridge, is one of 19 longlisted titles and the sole ... Read More »

August 14, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Latte lit

By Nathan Whitlock

Booksellers, already competing with grocery superstores and price clubs, will surely be thrilled to hear that Starbucks, as previously noted on Quillblog, plans to start selling books this fall. Mitch Albom's latest novel, For One ... Read More »

August 11, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Required reading

By Nathan Whitlock

Countering claims that proposed changes to the curriculum for 11- to 14-year-olds will result in a "dumbing down" of English literature lessons, the British ministry of education has issued a list of writers it considers ... Read More »

August 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Bezmozgis's Montreal

By Leigh Anne Williams

Salon's "Literary Guide to the World" goes Canadian today with a piece on Montreal fiction. It's written by Toronto-raised David Bezmozgis (author of Natasha and Other Stories), who went to McGill University. Bezmozgis highlights three ... Read More »

August 10, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

A novelist brings the funny onstage

By Leigh Anne Williams

Scottish novelist A.L. Kennedy is trying a new line of work -- standup comedy. In a piece for The Guardian, she writes about her "evenings in murky basements trying to make people laugh" over the ... Read More »

August 10, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Update: Senator chickens out on textbook bill

By Cassandra Drudi

Earlier this summer, Quillblog featured a few posts about California senator Sheila Kuehl's attempts to get bill SB 1437 -- which would make it mandatory to "to require that textbooks in California schools detail the ... Read More »

August 9, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Amazon's race to sell everything

By Leigh Anne Williams

Amazon.com released its first-quarter results last week (which contained no specific mention of Canada), to the disappointment of most investors. It appears that Amazon's aggressive investment in the toy and grocery categories is dampening profits.While ... Read More »

August 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Author draws her own damn cover

By Leigh Anne Williams

Lionel Shriver, the author of the novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, is apparently publishing a new novel soon -- and she isn't too thrilled with the cover design process. In an arts column ... Read More »

August 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Books: hot, fresh, and ready to go

By Cassandra Drudi

Hit the ATM, the DVD kiosk, and the made-to-order book machine? This ain't no book vending machine, folks -- it's more like a coffee-machine, making a book for you in three minutes or so at ... Read More »

July 27, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

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