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Daily links round-up: e-reader wars, Bingo, and more

Grab a sleeping bag and get in line, the iPad 2 is officially available in Canada on March 25 Amazon shuts down Kindle-lending community website Lendle.me Meanwhile, Apple and Microsoft are playing patent fisticuffs with ... Read More »

March 22, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

J.D. Salinger slept here

By Steven W. Beattie

The New York Times has an article about a creative writing scholarship given out to students at Ursinus College, just outside of Philadelphia. The school is the alma mater of J.D. Salinger, and the initial ... Read More »

March 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Could the Kindle killer be an actual book?

By Steven W. Beattie

Amazon's Kindle e-reader is touted for its advantages as a reading device: it is lightweight, portable, and employs easy-to-read, low glare e-ink. Almost from its first appearance, critics and competitors have been predicting the advent ... Read More »

March 21, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Canadian literary event round-up, March 18-24

By Sue Carter

Here are just a few literary events happening across the country in the next week: Twelve top poets compete in the Toronto Poetry Slam Semifinals, March 19 at the Drake Hotel (7 p.m., $5) Poet ... Read More »

March 18, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Douglas Lochhead, 1922-2011

By Natalie Samson

Douglas Lochhead, the poet laureate of Sackville, New Brunswick, died Tuesday in a Westmorland-area nursing home. He was 88. Lochhead was named the first-ever lifetime poet laureate for the town in 2002. From Lochhead's obituary ... Read More »

March 17, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Daily links round-up: Free Kindles, James Frey, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Robert Fulford on the "long service in the trench warfare of editing" of Oxford University Press's William Toye The Association of American Publishers reports a staggering 116 per cent ... Read More »

March 17, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Donoghue, Winter make Orange Prize longlist

By Natalie Samson

A pair of Canadians are among the 20 women on the 16th annual Orange Prize for Fiction longlist. Emma Donoghue (Room) and Kathleen Winter (Annabel) are both in contention for the book award, which recognizes ... Read More »

March 16, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Salman Rushdie to write Showtime drama

By Sue Carter

Salman Rushdie is writing a script for U.S. TV network Showtime (Dexter, Nurse Jackie). According to the Guardian, Rushdie's Next People will explore the U.S. at a time of rapid change, taking in politics, sex, ... Read More »

March 15, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

High school competition Poetry in Voice announces judges

By Sue Carter

Griffin Poetry Prize founder Scott Griffin has lined up an impressive group of judges for the inaugural Poetry in Voice, the high-school poetry recitation competition. On April 12, winners from 12 Ontario high schools will ... Read More »

March 15, 2011 | Filed under: Awards

Book biz round-up: Anna Porter on the “shaky state” of Canadian publishing, and more

By Sue Carter

Anna Porter on the shaky state of Canadian book publishing Just in time for Lent: James Frey's self-published The Final Testament of the Holy Bible Books you must read, compiled into a neat consensus cloud ... Read More »

March 15, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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Daily links round-up: e-reader wars, Bingo, and more

J.D. Salinger slept here

Could the Kindle killer be an actual book?

Canadian literary event round-up, March 18-24

Douglas Lochhead, 1922-2011

Daily links round-up: Free Kindles, James Frey, and more

Donoghue, Winter make Orange Prize longlist

Salman Rushdie to write Showtime drama

High school competition Poetry in Voice announces judges

Book biz round-up: Anna Porter on the “shaky state” of Canadian publishing, and more

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