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The woman behind the man

For those who still have the stamina to continue pondering the JT LeRoy case, Salon has an in-depth (five pages) profile of Laura Albert, the woman who created the LeRoy persona and wrote his works. ... Read More »

March 9, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Slate joins the online-novel sweepstakes

By Leigh Anne Williams

Walter Kirn, a well-known American book critic and novelist (his credits include Thumbsucker, Up in the Air, and Mission to America) has signed on to write a serialized online novel for Slate, to appear in ... Read More »

March 9, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

This just in: people like being happy

By Scott MacDonald

As part of the festivities surrounding the U.K. and Ireland's World Book Day, which took place this year on Thursday, March 2, results of a survey on the topic of happy endings was released. The ... Read More »

March 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

How to make a bookstore window display

By Leigh Anne Williams

Michael Cho is a Toronto cartoonist whose work will have a familiar look to folks who shop at Pages Books & Magazines -- Cho has designed the occasional display for the Queen Street store's main ... Read More »

March 3, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Catching the eye

By Leigh Anne Williams

Book Standard columnist (and Bookslut.com proprietor) Jessa Crispin writes about the mysterious process by which some books manage to stand out from the pack enough to snag her attention. And for at least one title ... Read More »

March 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Free to read, you and me

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's midway through Freedom to Read Week, but there's still plenty of time to get in on the action. Among the events listed on the online schedule are a mock "trial" for challenged books, to ... Read More »

March 2, 2006 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

Books, not bombs, say authors to Reed

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the eve of the London Book Fair, a group of authors has written a letter to the Times Literary Supplement protesting one of the fair organizer's other revenue streams. "Reed Exhibitions, owned by the ... Read More »

March 2, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Scout's honour

By Leigh Anne Williams

With the London Book Fair imminent, the Telegraph site has recruited a literary scout, Anne Louise Fisher, to write about what the fair is like for her and her colleagues. "Our greatest fear is that ... Read More »

March 1, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Fairytales of New York

By Leigh Anne Williams

The CBC Arts website has a strong profile of Jay McInerney, whose post-9/11 novel, The Good Life, has been getting much press. The piece is notable for its discussion of the changing character of New ... Read More »

February 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

DIY comix for dummies

By Scott MacDonald

With hundreds of thousands of books being published each year and many of those being lacklustre, self-published books are often seen as ones that all conventional publishers refuse to touch -- many say for good ... Read More »

February 22, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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