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Your friendly neighbourhood … Stephen Colbert?

Stephen Colbert is running for president - in the Marvel Universe. Signs proclaiming "Colbert for President" have been appearing recently in the background of various Marvel comics, and now Marvel has announced that Colbert will ... Read More »

September 30, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Phil Marchand lands at the National Post

By Nathan Whitlock

Longtime Toronto Star book critic Phil Marchand, who switched jobs with former Star film critic Geoff Pevere at the beginning of this year, has now begun what is being promised as a weekly books column ... Read More »

September 29, 2008

The evolution of Ricci’s new novel

By Steven W. Beattie

On Saturday the National Post inaugurated the first in its series of articles describing the development of Nino Ricci's new novel, The Origin of Species, which hits store shelves tomorrow. In the opening of the ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Sony Reader fails to wow them at WOTS

By Steven W. Beattie

In addition to the numerous author readings, signings, and stacks of books for sale at yesterday's Word on the Street festival, which drew an estimated 200,000 people to Queen's Park in Toronto, there was a ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Publisher of controversial Mohammed novel firebombed

By Nathan Whitlock

As previously noted on Quillblog, publication of the novel The Jewel of Medina was canceled by Random House U.S. due to the possibility that it might offend Muslims and perhaps initiate attacks by those at ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Heather Reisman a fan of Type Books “ or is she?

By Stuart Woods

In business, it always pays to know your competition. But does Indigo CEO Heather Reisman see Toronto mini-chain Type Books as competition? From Toronto Life: One summer Sunday afternoon, Type's Danforth digs received an auspicious ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

School’s in for children’s writers

By Stuart Woods

The Guardian is running a week-long series of how-to guides to writing, and today's theme is writing for kids. Dodging the larger question of whether or not writing can even be taught at all, a ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Stephen Harper vs. the Gillers

By Stuart Woods

Globe and Mail television critic John Doyle used his column yesterday to go after Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his quip about ordinary Canadians and the excesses of fatcat artists. While the issue is only ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Shinan Govani takes on Bennett’s blue bloods

By Steven W. Beattie

Gadfly and gossip-hound Shinan Govani takes novelist Jonathan Bennett to task in the pages of today's National Post, suggesting that Bennett's portrayal of the well-heeled, monied classes in his new book, Entitlement, misses the mark. ... Read More »

September 25, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Controversial Bret Easton Ellis novel headed to Broadway

By Steven W. Beattie

With Wall Street suffering financial conniptions, prominent investment firms imploding like neutron stars, and American president George W. Bush organizing a $700-billion bail-out, it feels like the 1980s all over again. What better time to ... Read More »

September 25, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

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Your friendly neighbourhood … Stephen Colbert?

Phil Marchand lands at the National Post

The evolution of Ricci’s new novel

Sony Reader fails to wow them at WOTS

Publisher of controversial Mohammed novel firebombed

Heather Reisman a fan of Type Books “ or is she?

School’s in for children’s writers

Stephen Harper vs. the Gillers

Shinan Govani takes on Bennett’s blue bloods

Controversial Bret Easton Ellis novel headed to Broadway

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