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The Coach House standoff continues

Toronto's free weekly Now has some more back and forth on the Coach House Books situation, this time in the form of a piece by Jeremy Murray, a resident of Campus Co-operative Residences. (Some background: ... Read More »

October 4, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Life and literature on the street

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Canadian Press has an update on a book club for Vancouver sex workers. Organized by bookseller Mary Trentadue, the club's first selection was Maggie de Vries's Missing Sarah (Penguin Canada), a memoir about the ... Read More »

September 30, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

A race against time

By Leigh Anne Williams

Michael Chabon's 1995 novel Wonder Boys immortalized the fictional Grady Tripp, an author who keeps plugging away at his overlong and long-overdue magnum opus. Now author Jonathan Mahler looks at some real-life wonder boys (and ... Read More »

September 27, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Wright across Canada

By Leigh Anne Williams

National Post reporter Isabel Vincent has filed the second installment in her look at the publication of Richard B. Wright's new novel, Adultery. Part one looked at the marketing plan and spotlighted HarperCollins Canada publicity ... Read More »

September 27, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The smell of our own

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Guardian reports that Laura Tonnato, an Italian perfume creator, has come up with five new scents designed to evoke specific moments in classic novels. The ones that get the olfactory treatment are Wilde's The ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Buy now, buy later?

By Leigh Anne Williams

Why do publishers cling to the hardcover-first, then-to-trade paper model for so many titles, even ones that appeal to more cash-strapped young consumers? That's the question Laura Miller poses in her latest New York Times ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

We all begin in a little magazine

By Leigh Anne Williams

Traditionally, literary journals have been the place where young fiction writers hone their chops, and with the decline of the first-novel market, especially in Canada, the litmags' importance may rise again. Sven Birkets writes about ... Read More »

August 30, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Non-fiction and fiction, back to your corners

By Leigh Anne Williams

The decline of the fiction market continues to be felt internationally -- at least, according to author Philip Hensher, who writes in The Observer about British publishing's increasing emphasis on non-fiction. To support this claim, ... Read More »

August 30, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

From blurbese to reviewerese and back again

By Leigh Anne Williams

The book world has a language all of its own, writes Tom Payne in this very amusing Telegraph piece about the words and phrases unique to that language. Payne even compiles a long list of ... Read More »

August 23, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The school of rocklit

By Leigh Anne Williams

It may be true, as Michael Hearst claims, that "all writers want to be rock stars." But do they truly have rock within them? That's one question posed by this Carl Wilson feature in the ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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