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Event photos: Attack of the Winnipeg Hockey Moms

Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin launched his new book, My Winnipeg (Coach House Books), as part of Pages' This Is Not A Reading Series this past Tuesday at an event called Attack of the Winnipeg Hockey ... Read More »

May 14, 2009 | Filed under: Events

And you thought you’d heard the last from Holden Caulfield…

By Suzanne Gardner

Sequels are always difficult to pull off. Everyone pits your new effort against your old one, and rarely will your latest come out ahead (The Empire Strikes Back excluded). It's even harder to succeed when ... Read More »

May 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

You betcha: Sarah Palin to pen memoir

By Nathan Whitlock

Late-night comedy writers must be ecstatic over the news that Alaska governor and former vice-presidential no-hopeful Sarah Palin has signed with HarperCollins U.S. to write a memoir. The size of the advance “ really, is there ... Read More »

May 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Tom Tomorrow and The Very Silly Mayor

By Nathan Whitlock

Political cartoonist and blogger Tom Tomorrow (né Dan Perkins) has decided to branch out into kidlit with a picture book entitled The Very Silly Mayor, due out in September. On his site, This Modern World, ... Read More »

May 13, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

How you know you’re in a recession, Part MMCXIIV

By Steven W. Beattie

Quillblog is well aware that hard economic times have a disproportionate effect on writers (who aren't usually in the top earning brackets to begin with) but it's a sign that things have become untenable when ... Read More »

May 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Twilight sequel script found in trash

By Steven W. Beattie

It was a blunder worthy of CSIS. In 1999, Canada's spy agency had egg on its face after top-secret documents were stolen off the back seat of a parked car while the car's owner attended ... Read More »

May 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Author tweets his way back into the limelight

By Suzanne Gardner

Author and former New Yorker staff writer Dan Baum is attracting attention with an essay about his tenure at the prestigious magazine in that he's posting on Twitter. Baum began his story this past Friday ... Read More »

May 11, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Bookmarks: HarperCollins revenue way down

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: HarperCollins reports a decline in revenue of nearly 20% in the last quarter The Save Al Purdy's House campaign has a website The race to digitize historic manuscripts is ... Read More »

May 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

New Web forum will look at Google Book Search settlement

By Stuart Woods

A new project is underway to foster public discussion about the ramifications of the Google Book Search settlement, the New York Law School announced this week. The initiative will see the launch of a new ... Read More »

May 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Widget allows book clubs to occur anywhere on the Web

By Suzanne Gardner

The Book Oven blog has brought to our attention a unique social networking site called BookGlutton that seeks to provide users with a new way to read online. According to the website, the application allows ... Read More »

May 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Event photos: Attack of the Winnipeg Hockey Moms

And you thought you’d heard the last from Holden Caulfield…

You betcha: Sarah Palin to pen memoir

Tom Tomorrow and The Very Silly Mayor

How you know you’re in a recession, Part MMCXIIV

Twilight sequel script found in trash

Author tweets his way back into the limelight

Bookmarks: HarperCollins revenue way down

New Web forum will look at Google Book Search settlement

Widget allows book clubs to occur anywhere on the Web

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