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Bookmarks: literature on television and updating guides

Sundry links from around the web: The L.A. Times shines a light on author Conn Iggulden's historical fiction, which pretty much sounds like the sort of material you'd expect the co-author of The Dangerous Book For ... Read More »

March 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Podcasts for poets

By Stuart Woods

Julie Wilson, recently in the headlines for her Indigo dust up, is launching a new project in conjunction with National Poetry Month in April. Wilson has invited 30 poets to submit recordings of themselves reading ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Shining the spotlight on reviewing

By Steven W. Beattie

For as long as there have been books there have (presumably) been book reviews. For as long as there has been an Internet, there have been amateur book reviewers. How does the practice of reviewing ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Debut novel paints unflattering familial portrait: novelist’s family upset

By Steven W. Beattie

Apologize, Apologize! is not just the title of Elizabeth Kelly's debut novel, it's also what her estranged brother is demanding she do on account of the way their family is represented in the book. According ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Sylvia Plath’s son commits suicide

By Steven W. Beattie

Forty-six years after poet Sylvia Plath took her own life, her son Nicholas has hanged himself. Like his mother, Nicholas “ the son of Plath and poet Ted Hughes “ had struggled for much of ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Michael Tamblyn’s six good ideas for the future of publishing

By Stuart Woods

BookNet Canada is getting around to posting videos from last week's technology forum, and the first one to go up is BookNet CEO Michael Tamblyn's talk entitled 6 Projects That Could Change Publishing for the ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bush talks up memoir in Calgary

By Nathan Whitlock

If former President Bush's verbal gaffes were gettin' old last year, they must be pretty much fossilized by now. (Woe be to any publisher with a title like Putting Food On Your Family: The Accidental ... Read More »

March 18, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The most interesting bookstores of the world

By Eric Emin Wood

Just because the greatest books rely on imagination and abstract images doesn't mean the stores that sell them have to. Thankfully, some ... Read More »

March 18, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Gaiman to headline Luminato literary programming

By Scott MacDonald

The Toronto-based Luminato arts festival has announced its 2009 lineup, and fanboys the city over will be pleased to know that the theme for the literary programming is "fantasy, horror, and Gothic." They'll likely be ... Read More »

March 18, 2009 | Filed under: Events

Another day, another literary award controversy

By Eric Emin Wood

The winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, which is partially funded by the Booker foundation, has been announced. The majority of titles on the shortlist “ Hunger, The Unfaithful Translator, The American Granddaughter, Time of White Horses, The ... Read More »

March 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Bookmarks: literature on television and updating guides

Podcasts for poets

Shining the spotlight on reviewing

Debut novel paints unflattering familial portrait: novelist’s family upset

Sylvia Plath’s son commits suicide

Michael Tamblyn’s six good ideas for the future of publishing

Bush talks up memoir in Calgary

The most interesting bookstores of the world

Gaiman to headline Luminato literary programming

Another day, another literary award controversy

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