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On photography

There are a couple of photo-related items to point out today. The CBC Arts website has a photo gallery of stills from Carte Blanche, a brand-new collection of the work of various Canadian photographers and ... Read More »

April 20, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The books on screen

By Scott MacDonald

In the world of filmic adaptations of books, good books don't necessarily make for good films, and great films are not always based on good books. A panel of experts gathered by The Guardian has ... Read More »

April 19, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

On the graphic memoir

By Scott MacDonald

The Philadelphia Inquirer recently posted an article on its website about the rise of graphic memoirs, or memoirs in comic book form. This news itself isn't so noteworthy: with numerous autobiographically inspired books like Art ... Read More »

April 19, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Might is right

By Scott MacDonald

In what appears to be an attempt to keep a lid on the pot of global warming, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has barred Mark Tushingham, a scientist for Environment Canada and the author of the ... Read More »

April 18, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

McDonald's gears up for Fast Food Nation film

By Scott MacDonald

Film blog Cinematical recently featured a short, comical report on McDonald's full-scale PR campaign on the eve of the release of the filmic adaptation of Eric Schlosser's book, Fast Food Nation. Blogger Martha Fischer writes, ... Read More »

April 18, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Politics and the pen

By Leigh Anne Williams

With Michael Ignatieff eyeing the Liberal Party leadership, we're now facing the possibility of a genuine novelist actually running the country at some point down the road. (Though better known for his non-fiction, Ignatieff has ... Read More »

April 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Beckettmania

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's the 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's birth today, and the University of Texas at Austin is celebrating with a website called "Fathoms from Anywhere: A Samuel Beckett Centenary Exhibition." Based on a 1984 non-virtual ... Read More »

April 13, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Judgment Day: The Story of My Life, Not Guilty in a Trial by Fire on the Island on a Good Day to Die

By Scott MacDonald

Consulting with the American Library Association, which compiled a list of commonly used book titles, the Associated Press lets us in on what a few of them are and the issues that surround them -- ... Read More »

April 12, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Peck does it again

By Leigh Anne Williams

Bad-boy book reviewer and author Dale Peck has taken his literary-criticism-as-theatre approach (or perhaps literary criticism as pro wrestling) to its logical conclusion with a new look-at-me stunt. The U.S. website The Morning News asked ... Read More »

April 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Words, words everywhere

By Scott MacDonald

Since "findings" by the Global Language Monitor were made public a few weeks ago, a hot topic in media outlets as diverse as America's National Public Radio, London's Sunday Times, and China's People's Daily concerns ... Read More »

April 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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