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Signed, B.C.

The B.C. online magazine The Tyee celebrates BC Book and Magazine Week with a look at the province's book publishing culture, written by Kelsey Dundon. Local author Michael V. Smith tells Dundon: "Being a little ... Read More »

May 1, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The wandering book

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the B.C. news site The Tyee, writer Lisa Richardson considers "The Art of Book Dropping," in which readers leave their favourite books in public places, to be picked up by strangers. In recent years, ... Read More »

April 25, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

A new face at a major creative-writing program

By Leigh Anne Williams

Following the recent death of Frank Conroy, novelist Lan Samantha Chang is taking over as the director of the venerated Iowa Writers' Workshop. The New York Times looks at Chang's plans going into the job ... Read More »

April 18, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

How much is too much?

By Leigh Anne Williams

CBC Arts writer Andre Mayer looks at the phenomenon of the ultra-prolific writer, with Alexander McCall Scott -- he of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, among many other books -- as the poster ... Read More »

April 18, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Just not that into this genre

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the CBC Arts site, Katrina Onstad surveys the chick-lit scene, focusing on non-fiction titles like He's Just Not That Into You as well as Canadian dating-themed books like Playing With Matches: Misadventures in Dating ... Read More »

April 4, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The hardcover club

By Leigh Anne Williams

Hardcover or trade paper? Author Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, whose first novel, The Nettle Spinner, is being published by Goose Lane Editions this spring (following a short-story collection), brings a personal perspective to that age-old debate in ... Read More »

April 4, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Remembering an early CanLit booster

By Leigh Anne Williams

Literature professor Gordon Roper, who died last month at the age of 93, is remembered in a Toronto Star obituary. A Peterborough native, Roper taught at the University of Chicago and then at U of ... Read More »

March 28, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Oh Sheila — Ticknor is ready for the world

By Leigh Anne Williams

The release of Sheila Heti's debut novel, Ticknor -- following a highly visible short-story collection, The Middle Stories, in 2000 -- has kicked off a round of profiles. CBC Arts plays up House of Anansi ... Read More »

March 28, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The trouble with contests

By Leigh Anne Williams

The unsound ethics of poetry contests is a hot topic in the U.S. these days -- one that Canadian poet and essayist Zach Wells has now tackled on the Bookninja.com site. Wells is not so ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Industry news, Opinion

Creative writing at UBC: an appreciation

By Leigh Anne Williams

CBC Arts looks back at the University of British Columbia's creative writing program on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. There is, of course, a strong emphasis on the commercial glory days of the late ... Read More »

March 17, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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