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Lose the big books

A U.S. litblog, Conversational Reading, checks in on everyone's favourite subject, the state of book reviewing. In this case, it's the big-book syndrome, in which a new title by a major author receives nearly identical ... Read More »

November 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Natural literary selection

By Leigh Anne Williams

There's been historical criticism, biographical criticism, Marxist criticism, and many more. The latest literary theory to get some mainstream attention is Darwinian criticism. In a feature in The New York Times Magazine, writer D.T. Max ... Read More »

November 10, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The outsiders

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a piece on the Tyee site entitled "Lies That Writers Tell Themselves," author Crawford Killan takes on the trope of the author as a social outsider who self-destructs, beginning with Horatio Alger and Jack ... Read More »

November 10, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Books vs. readers

By Scott MacDonald

Kevin Larimer writes in the online edition of Poets & Writers magazine of a surprising preference that appears to be held among poets. As part of an informal poll, Joseph Bednarik, marketing director of the ... Read More »

November 9, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Literary history as an excuse for drinking

By Scott MacDonald

With heritage locales dedicated to the likes of Joyce and Wilde and guided literature-themed tours brimming with more foreign visitors than ever finished Ulysses, the Irish tourism industry makes a mint from its literary heritage. ... Read More »

November 9, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Three-man prenups

By Scott MacDonald

A recent article on the New York Times website affords readers a glimpse into the home of American book-design icon Chip Kidd. Bought on the cheap in what was once known as Hell's Kitchen in ... Read More »

November 8, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Farewell Korda

By Leigh Anne Williams

Legendary American editor Michael Korda announced yesterday that he'll be stepping down from his longtime position as editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster. Korda has been with the company for 47 years (the past 37 of ... Read More »

November 3, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

There's such a lot of world to see (and write about)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The CBC Arts website, up and running again after the lockout, checks in on a group of like-minded Vancouver writers who are proponents of travel-themed non-fiction. "The group allows us to hash out these ideas ... Read More »

November 3, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

On the falsification of books

By Scott MacDonald

Henry Alford reports in a New Yorker piece from last August about an unnamed investigator's search for a proverbial needle in the haystack -- the single falsified word in the most recent edition of the ... Read More »

November 2, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Copyright — who needs it?

By Leigh Anne Williams

Wouldn't we all be better off without copyright laws as they're currently conceived? That's the position of an International Herald-Tribune opinion piece. Co-writers Joost Smiers and Marijke van Schijndel (who were, presumably, paid for the ... Read More »

October 27, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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