Alan Twigg, author of Full-Time: A Soccer Story (McCLelland & Stewart), presents the jersey that was featured on the book's cover to Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame representative and Canada Soccer Centre co-founder William Hoyle ... Read More »
Some book-related links: The Artist Currently Known as Prince promotes his upcoming coffee-table book at Book Expo America (USA Today) V.S. Naipaul announces there are "no more great writers" (The Independent) ... and gets poetically ... Read More »
June 2, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
A bit of controversy erupted at the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts in Wales yesterday when the Children's Book Group of the Publishers' Association announced plans to pursue putting recommended age ranges on ... Read More »
May 30, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
A new collection of David Sedaris essays “ entitled When You Are Engulfed in Flames “ comes out next week, and Entertainment Weekly has used the opportunity to check in with the humorist and to ... Read More »
May 30, 2008 | Filed under: Authors
From Torontoist.com After more than twenty months of renovations that saw the building completely gutted, the S. Walter Stewart branch of the Toronto Public Library is finally reopening tomorrow. If you grew up in East ... Read More »
Authors Andre Alexis, Anthony De Sa, and Joseph Kertes all read at an event hosted by A Different Drummer Books and Bryan Prince at the Gallery on the Bay in Hamilton, Ontario, on May 27. ... Read More »
From MSNBC.com: In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and a host of other controversial issues produced a memoir damning of his old boss on nearly ... Read More »
May 29, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
Back in 2001, when the dot-com boom went bust, the U.S. bookstore chain Borders decided to get out of the online bookselling biz and scrapped Borders.com. Now, however, they seem to have thought better of ... Read More »
May 28, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling
Mainichi Daily News “ yes, we read 'em all “ has an interview with novelist Haruki Murakami on the recent work he's done translating some classic American novels into Japanese: Over the past few years, ... Read More »
May 27, 2008 | Filed under: Authors
The Telegraph has an interview with Ian McEwan on the subject of his collaboration with composer Michael Berkeley on an opera that will be debuting in the U.K. next week. Asked why opera, McEwan admits ... Read More »
May 27, 2008 | Filed under: Authors
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