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Small-press stars in the U.S.

Business Week looks at a couple of small American literary presses that are making a mark. Most prominently, New York's Archipalego Books, which has scored a great deal of attention this year for an English ... Read More »

May 4, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

This witty and wise piece will render you near-catatonic with delight and admiration

By Leigh Anne Williams

Over on the CBC Arts website, Andre Mayer looks at the fine art of book blurbing, and he leads off with a doozy of an example from Dave Eggers. Writing about Adverbs, a new adult ... Read More »

May 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

How Kaavya Viswanathan lost a half-million-dollar book deal, continued: Gladwell weighs in

By Leigh Anne Williams

On his blog, author and New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell offers his take on the Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarism controversy (see In Other Media passim). And his take is pretty much, What's the big deal? Writes ... Read More »

May 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Addressing the needs of young readers, part 2

By Scott MacDonald

In Edinburgh, Scotland, where unemployment has risen to over 18% and 23% of households fall under the low-income threshold, stability has been found in a somewhat unlikely place: a local library. Turning young, rambunctious patrons ... Read More »

April 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Addressing the needs of young readers, part 1

By Scott MacDonald

The Seattle Times website features an interesting report on a continuing trend in some high school reading lists. Interspersing arduous classical texts with contemporary works by women and ethnic minorities seems to have led to ... Read More »

April 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Ticknor love in America

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sheila Heti's novel Ticknor was recently published in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and has been attracting the admiration of several literary blogs. One site, the Litblog Co-op, has been running Ticknor-related content ... Read More »

April 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Adventures in book packaging

By Leigh Anne Williams

The controversy over Kaavya Viswanathan's plagiarism keeps picking up speed, so here's a quick recap. The Harvard student scored a $500,000 advance for her debut chicklit novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and ... Read More »

April 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Go, poetry!

By Scott MacDonald

A new website devoted to Canadian poetry has recently been launched. Edited by poets and reviewers Dani Couture and Alex Boyd, who also organizes Toronto's IV lounge reading series, the Northern Poetry Review bills itself ... Read More »

April 25, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Harper's bid for totalitarianism backfires

By Scott MacDonald

What's the best way to sell a book? Recent events surrounding Mark Tushingham's book, Hotter Than Hell, suggest that a little controversy can't hurt. In Other Media linked last week to coverage of the Harper ... Read More »

April 25, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Second-novel success, or sophomore jinx?

By Leigh Anne Williams

With Charles Frazier's second novel, Thirteen Moons, now scheduled for an October release, The New York Times takes a look at the considerable expectations the book will face. Frazier's 1997 debut, Cold Mountain, was a ... Read More »

April 20, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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