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Holdstock takes America

Another Canadian-authored book with a retooled foreign title got some notice this weekend. Pauline Holdstock's Giller-nominated novel Beyond Measure (Cormorant Books) was featured in the New York Times Book Review, where reviewer Suzy Hansen argues ... Read More »

March 7, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Jessica Warner gets a British rave

By Leigh Anne Williams

Jessica Warner's The Incendiary, a look at a would-be terrorist in 1770s Britain, comes in for a glowing review in the U.K.'s The Guardian. Reviewer Ian Pindar writes that "Somehow Warner has turned this utterly ... Read More »

March 7, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

And the best novel of 2004 is…

By Leigh Anne Williams

Three weeks, 16 books, and 15 judges later, the Morning News' Tournament of Books -- the U.S. website's month-long playoff-style competition between 2004 novels -- has picked a winner. And it's none other than David ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

New York state of mind

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Toronto Star checks in on McNally Robinson New York, and finds that manager Sarah McNally is displaying such books as Annabel Lyon's The Best Thing for You and Richard B. Wright's Clara Callan, and ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Harlequin looks east as well as south

By Leigh Anne Williams

Harelquin's recent financial slump -- revenue fell almost 10% in the first nine months of 2004 -- continues to draw the attention of the business press. A Globe and Mail story reports on the romance ... Read More »

February 21, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Notes from the Ottawa underground

By Leigh Anne Williams

Writer Matthew Firth offers an on-the-ground view of Ottawa's alternative book publishing scene in Ottawa's XPress. "Mercutio Press, Hand Maiden Press, Sorrowland Press might not roll as freely off the tongue as HarperCollins but they're ... Read More »

February 21, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Pilots up in arms over Milton book

By Leigh Anne Williams

Air Canada CEO Robert Milton's autobiography seems to have exacerbated the airline's ongoing labour tensions. As the New York Times reports, Air Canada's pilots' union has complained to the Canada Industrial Relations Board about "some ... Read More »

February 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Sexy CanLit?

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sex in Canadian fiction is the angle of Peter Darbyshire's review of Stephen Marche's Raymond and Hannah on the CBC Arts website. In CanLit, Darbyshire laments, "sex is rarely a pleasurable event. Instead, it is ... Read More »

February 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The new-style book award

By Leigh Anne Williams

Award-watchers love to gripe about the subjectivity and secrecy of jury-panel decisions. But lately a couple of book-related sites have gone one better and tried to create alternatives. Late last year, Ontario's Good Reports site ... Read More »

February 7, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

How comic books have abandoned children

By Leigh Anne Williams

With all the talk about graphic novels and comics-for-grownups now reaching the mainstream media, few people have looked at the problem of comics for kids: the problem being that there aren't any, or at least ... Read More »

February 7, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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