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Event photos: Ann Towell gets Grease-y, Chantal Simmons gets Love Struck, and Stuart Ross goes Rogue

Ann Towell launched her YA novel Grease Town (Tundra Books) on March 6, at the Oil Museum of Canada in Oil Springs, Ontario. Furthermore, oil. (Photo by Larry Towell/Magnum/Courtesy of Tundra Books) Chantal Simmons launched ... Read More »

March 10, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Ian Weir doles out writing advice at the Afterword Reading Society wrap-up

By Laura Godfrey

Last night, book lovers gathered at Ben McNally Books in Toronto for the National Post's inaugural Afterword Reading Society wrap-up. Brad Frenette, Afterword co-editor, hosted a Q&A with Ian Weir, whose novel Daniel O'Thunder (Douglas ... Read More »

March 10, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Brooklyn Library head resigns over Up in the Air“style firing scandal

By Scott MacDonald

You probably thought the corporate downsizing company featured in the George Clooney movie Up in the Air was a fiction, but sadly it was not. There really are companies like that, and one of them ... Read More »

March 10, 2010 | Filed under: Industry news

Daily book biz round-up, Mar. 10

By Scott MacDonald

Here's what's making news around the Web today: The New York Times Book Review? There's going to be an app for that Could Google put translators out of business? A portrait of the reader as ... Read More »

March 10, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

New book re-examines JFK’s death via letters to Jackie

By Laura Godfrey

When U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, the nation - and the world - expressed its grief by sending over one million letters to his wife, Jackie “ some even came from ... Read More »

March 9, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

New prize announced for Canadian science titles

By Scott MacDonald

The Fitzhenry Family Foundation, a charitable arm of the Ontario-based publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside, has unveiled a sizable new prize for authors of Canadian science titles. The Lane Anderson Prize, named after company co-founder Robert ... Read More »

March 9, 2010 | Filed under: Awards

Can a literary Toronto exist?

By Steven W. Beattie

The city of Toronto has been called many things “ the centre of the universe (but only by Torontonians), "New York run by the Swiss" (Peter Ustinov), a place where "[t]hose from other countries look ... Read More »

March 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Pulling a Roth

By Steven W. Beattie

Anyone who has read Portnoy's Complaint might raise an eyebrow at the idea of "pulling a Roth," but Stuart Evers, writing on the Guardian's book blog, means something altogether different. Evers notes that unlike many ... Read More »

March 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Ali Smith among Giller jurors

By Scott MacDonald

Scotiabank Giller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch announced the jurors for this year's prize this morning. They are: Michael Enright, host of CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition, Canadian-born U.S. author Claire Messud (The Emperor's Children), and ... Read More »

March 8, 2010 | Filed under: Awards

Salty Ink’s Judge a Book By Its Cover Contest winner announced

By Laura Godfrey

After weeks of waiting and a thousand votes, Salty Ink's Chad Pelley has announced the winner of the Judge a Book By Its Cover contest, out of a shortlist of three Atlantic Canadian books released ... Read More »

March 5, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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Event photos: Ann Towell gets Grease-y, Chantal Simmons gets Love Struck, and Stuart Ross goes Rogue

Ian Weir doles out writing advice at the Afterword Reading Society wrap-up

Brooklyn Library head resigns over Up in the Air“style firing scandal

Daily book biz round-up, Mar. 10

New book re-examines JFK’s death via letters to Jackie

New prize announced for Canadian science titles

Can a literary Toronto exist?

Pulling a Roth

Ali Smith among Giller jurors

Salty Ink’s Judge a Book By Its Cover Contest winner announced

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