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Bookmarks: J.K. Rowling’s latest tome

Beedlemania: J.K. Rowling's first post-Potter title hits stores. (The Guardian's Alison Flood live blogs it here) Sam Leith, the venerable literary editor at The Telegraph, is informed of his redundancy Just add water? Viking unleashes ... Read More »

December 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Event photos: Steinmetz and Manicom @ Paragraphe

By Nathan Whitlock

Véhicule Press and Gaspereau Press launched two new books at Librairie Paragraphe in downtown Montreal on Nov. 27. (Photos courtesy of Gaspereau Press/Ryan Hunt) Andrew Steinmetz reads from his first novel, Eva's Threepenny Opera (Gaspereau). ... Read More »

December 4, 2008 | Filed under: Events

Alex Ross wins Guardian award

By Scott MacDonald

New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has just been named the winner of this year's Guardian First Book Award, for his kaleidoscopic music history tome The Rest is Noise. The prize is worth a cool ... Read More »

December 3, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Big shake-ups at Random House U.S.

By Scott MacDonald

There's some scary stuff going on at Random House in the U.S. today. Industry observers anticipated changes to the company's organizational structure after new CEO Markus Dohle took over earlier this year, but few could ... Read More »

December 3, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Senior vice-president at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt quits

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Becky Saletan, senior vice-president and publisher of the U.S.-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has quit, effective Dec. 10. From The Canadian Press: Saletan had served in the job since January 2008, when she was appointed to ... Read More »

December 2, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Bookmarks: International booklists, textual absurdity, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Over at The Guardian, Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game, Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce, and Alice Munro's short-story collection Carried Away, were mentioned as some of the best books of 2008. Publishing big-wigs have had ... Read More »

December 2, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Anosh Irani in the NYT

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

An op-ed piece by Canadian novelist and playwright Anosh Irani appears online in The New York Times today. Irani, who was born in Mumbai, writes about the seige of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel during ... Read More »

December 2, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Opinion

Q&Q‘s Books of the Year – LIVE!

By Nathan Whitlock

As part of the global celebrations marking the release of Q&Q's annual "Books of the Year" issue, the World's Biggest Bookstore in downtown Toronto has put together a display in its honour: The display. Not-at-all-suspicious-looking ... Read More »

December 1, 2008 | Filed under: Events

Depressed economy not all bad news for publishers

By Steven W. Beattie

The economic turmoil in global financial markets is making a lot of folks depressed (ha!), but it apparently hasn't stopped one mega-publisher from handing out generous bonuses to staff. The same week that Houghton Mifflin ... Read More »

December 1, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Updike honoured for a lifetime of bad sex

By Steven W. Beattie

Last week, Quillblog pointed to the Literary Review's shortlist of nominees for the annual Bad Sex Award. Rachel Johnson ended up taking the award “ a bottle of champagne and a plaster foot, which is ... Read More »

December 1, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

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Bookmarks: J.K. Rowling’s latest tome

Event photos: Steinmetz and Manicom @ Paragraphe

Alex Ross wins Guardian award

Big shake-ups at Random House U.S.

Senior vice-president at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt quits

Bookmarks: International booklists, textual absurdity, and more

Anosh Irani in the NYT

Q&Q‘s Books of the Year – LIVE!

Depressed economy not all bad news for publishers

Updike honoured for a lifetime of bad sex

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