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Bookmarks: Oprah, Dan Brown, Google, and more “ it’s a big news day in the book biz

Sundry links from around the Web: Did Ingram accidentally leak the next Oprah book club pick? (By the way, it's Uwem Akpan's short story collection Say You're One of Them) Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol ... Read More »

September 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Steven Galloway to Barbara Kay: I’m a Canadian novelist and proud of it

By Stuart Woods

Last week, National Post columnist Barbara Kay stirred up some controversy when she trashed Lisa Moore's novel February for being both unmanly and unreadable “ a symptom of what Kay describes as an overly feminized, ... Read More »

September 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Whither fiction? Swedish spitball edition

By Nathan Whitlock

A couple of weeks ago, we linked to Lev Grossman's Wall Street Journal op-ed heralding a new era of plottiness in literary fiction and an end to modernist obscurantism. Readers want story, Grossman declared, and ... Read More »

September 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Blackberry-hating, Harry Potterland, and flying a kite with Khaled Hosseini

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Black Swan author not a fan of Blackberries, black president The Harry Potter theme park opening next year “ finally, ordinary children get a glimpse of the fictional educational institution they would ... Read More »

September 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Harvard library director says the book is NOT dead

By Alison Potstra

Despite Google's "colonization of e-books," the advent of the Kindle Reader, and today's publication of The Lost Symbol, Harvard University's library director, Robert Darnton, argues in Publisher's Weekly that the book is not dead, nor shall ... Read More »

September 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Farewell to “punk rock poet” Jim Carroll and mystery writer Lyn Hamilton

By Alison Potstra

Canadian mystery writer Lyn Hamilton passed away last Thursday at the age of 65. The Toronto-based writer, who was known for Chinese Alchemist, The Xibalba Murders and her globe-trotting heroine Lara McClintoch, died of cancer. According ... Read More »

September 15, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Libraries

Bookmarks: sexy Dan Brown, Mein Kampf manga, and the Electric Literature YouTube channel

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: Is this the end of the Free Library of Philadelphia?: all free libraries in the city of brotherly love could close on Oct. 2 Dan Brown's latest literary endeavour hits shelves ... Read More »

September 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Saskatchewan government goes after profits from Thatcher book

By Steven W. Beattie

Colin Thatcher, the former Saskatchewan politician who was convicted in 1984 of brutally murdering his ex-wife, JoAnn Wilson, has always maintained his innocence. He continues to do so in a new book, Final Appeal: Anatomy ... Read More »

September 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Jane Campion to adapt Munro’s “Runaway”

By Steven W. Beattie

Academy Award-winning director Jane Campion is in Toronto for the 2009 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, where her new movie, Bright Star, about a love affair between John Keats and the girl next ... Read More »

September 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Google gets friendly, Quartet Press shuts down, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Google will allow rivals to sell copies of its digital books Upstart digital publisher Quartet Press shuts down before it ever really got started Marion Boyers, the venerable independent U.K. ... Read More »

September 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Bookmarks: Oprah, Dan Brown, Google, and more “ it’s a big news day in the book biz

Steven Galloway to Barbara Kay: I’m a Canadian novelist and proud of it

Whither fiction? Swedish spitball edition

Bookmarks: Blackberry-hating, Harry Potterland, and flying a kite with Khaled Hosseini

Harvard library director says the book is NOT dead

Farewell to “punk rock poet” Jim Carroll and mystery writer Lyn Hamilton

Bookmarks: sexy Dan Brown, Mein Kampf manga, and the Electric Literature YouTube channel

Saskatchewan government goes after profits from Thatcher book

Jane Campion to adapt Munro’s “Runaway”

Bookmarks: Google gets friendly, Quartet Press shuts down, and more

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