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Michael Crichton dies

Online news outlets are buzzing this afternoon with the news that Michael Crichton has died. According to the Toronto Star, the 66-year-old author of mega-sellers like Jurassic Park and Timeline passed away yesterday after a ... Read More »

November 5, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Write well, lead well

By Scott MacDonald

In a Guardian blog post today, writer Rob Woodard asks whether or not you can predict how well a president will lead based on how well he writes: Attempting to predict the quality of an ... Read More »

November 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Obama a literary winner, too

By Scott MacDonald

In the wake of Barack Obama's historic win last night, The Christian Science Monitor takes a look at the current sales status of Obama's two books “ his 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father and ... Read More »

November 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: cover design, Dave Gibbons, the U.S. election, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

The Book Design Review shows us two cover treatments for Margaret Atwood's Payback The Giller Light Bash is for the "young and hip" New York Magazine chats with Dave Gibbons about Watching the Watchmen, working ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

You are what you read – presidential candidates edition

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Recently Katie Couric asked the presidential candidates about their favourite books, but Jon Meacham goes into more detail on the subject in The New York Times, arguing that a president's literary interests can tell us ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Twilight filmmakers have a stake in sticking closely to the book

By Steven W. Beattie

There's an old saw that says never judge a book by its movie. For the makers of Twilight, the upcoming film based on the first book in the gajillion-selling series of teen vampire novels by ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

American author Studs Terkel dead at 96

By Steven W. Beattie

Continuing our sad Monday-morning ritual, there's a significant literary death from over the weekend to mention. Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian and radio personality Studs Terkel died last Friday after a long illness. Terkel, whose adopted ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Japanese man takes love of comic books too far

By Scott MacDonald

A man named Taichi Takashita has started a campaign to force the Japanese government to legally recognize wedded unions between humans and comic book characters. More than 1,000 people have signed their names to this ... Read More »

October 31, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

It was a dark and stormy night…

By Scott MacDonald

Some Halloween-themed lit links: The top 10 ghost stories of all time (The Guardian) An interview with Stephen King on the 30th anniversary of The Stand (Salon) Book critic Laura Miller on why girls dig ... Read More »

October 31, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Doing the Harper shuffle

By Steven W. Beattie

Ordinary working people in the arts community who were miffed by the Conservative government's $45-million cuts to a broad array of arts programs may have reason to breathe a bit easier today. Josée Verner, the ... Read More »

October 30, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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Michael Crichton dies

Write well, lead well

Obama a literary winner, too

Bookmarks: cover design, Dave Gibbons, the U.S. election, and more

You are what you read – presidential candidates edition

Twilight filmmakers have a stake in sticking closely to the book

American author Studs Terkel dead at 96

Japanese man takes love of comic books too far

It was a dark and stormy night…

Doing the Harper shuffle

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