This past weekend, author Nancy Hartry launched her YA novel Watching Jimmy (Tundra Books) at Swansea Town Hall in Toronto's ... Read More »
Paul Quarrington, the Governor General's Award-winning author of Whale Music, has been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. In today's Globe and Mail, Quarrington is quoted as saying that the diagnosis is "surreal." From the ... Read More »
June 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Don't piss off J.D. Salinger. The famously reclusive author is also famously litigious, and the latest person to get caught in his legal sights is one J.D. California, the improbably named author of 60 Years ... Read More »
June 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
The Griffin Poetry Prize will be given out this coming Wednesday, and there are three strong books in contention: Revolver by Kevin Connolly (House of Anansi Press), Crabwise to the Hounds by Jaramy Dodds (Coach ... Read More »
June 1, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Look out Amazon, Google's coming. That was the message at BookExpo America over the weekend. According to an article by Motoko Rich in yesterday's New York Times, representatives from Google were in discussions with booksellers ... Read More »
June 1, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Haruki Murakami's first novel in five years, a two-volume work called 1Q84, arrived in Japan's bookstores today. The plot details of the work have been kept tightly under wraps by both the author and his ... Read More »
May 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
BookExpo America's trade show officially kicks off today, but the annual industry gathering is already well underway. At one of the preliminary seminars on Thursday, indie publishing veteran Richard Nash, formerly the publisher of Soft ... Read More »
May 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Among the many reactions to Alice Munro's well-deserved winning of the Man Booker International Prize, one of the more interesting is that of The New Yorker, the magazine that has published the lion's share of ... Read More »
A few quirky links from around the Web: After more than 65 years, Archie Andrews has finally decided to tie the knot ... with Veronica Lodge. Archie Comic Publications announced yesterday that the long-standing love ... Read More »
May 28, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Author Emily Schultz launched her latest novel, Heaven is Small (House of Anansi Press), at an event last night at Supermarket in Toronto. Schultz entertained the crowd with a reading from her novel, a humourous ... Read More »
May 27, 2009 | Filed under: Events
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