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Event Photos: Paul Quarrington talks and sings

April Q&Q cover boy and recent Canada Reads champ Paul Quarrington launched his new novel, The Ravine (Random House Canada), at an event hosted by Pages Books & Magazines and This Is Not A Reading ... Read More »

March 25, 2008 | Filed under: Events

Books on film

By Jacob Sheen

A quick roundup of newly announced book-to-film adaptations: A new adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is set to hit the screen after a long struggle with Huxley's estate. Leonardo DiCaprio will star and ... Read More »

March 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

The mathematics of books

By Jacob Sheen

The Music Genome Project has been dissecting songs since 2000, reducing them to a set of basic characteristics, such as the gender of the singer, pitch, and tempo. The theory is that once you know ... Read More »

March 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Event Photos: Kathy Kacer at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre

By Nathan Whitlock

Children's author Kathy Kacer recently spoke at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Toronto about her Silver Birch Award-winning book Hiding Edith and the just-released The Diary of Laura's Twin, both published by Second Story Press ... Read More »

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Events

Borders troubles

By Nathan Whitlock

Borders, the second-largest bookselling chain in the U.S., may be forced to sell itself off after hitting a financial crunch. Here are some takes on the chain's troubles: Borders bookstore may be up for sale ... Read More »

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Bookmarks: Rowling’s suicidal thoughts, Clarke’s funeral, and the most annoying people in bookstores

By Nathan Whitlock

We keep meaning to make these cheerier, but they always come out grim.... Some book-related links: J.K. Rowling contemplated suicide after divorce (BBC) Minute of silence in Sri Lanka as Arthur C. Clarke laid to ... Read More »

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Writing Toronto

By Jacob Sheen

The latest issue of Open Book: Toronto has a couple of articles on writing about Toronto. The first piece describes the inspiration provided by the city, the second describes the perspiration involved. Torontoist's Kevin Plummer ... Read More »

March 20, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Drawn & Quarterly store gets visited by language cops

By Nathan Whitlock

From Montreal's The Gazette: There are few commercial signs or posters in a recently opened Mile End bookstore, but one in particular appears to have upset a local resident. That person formally complained to the ... Read More »

March 20, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks (hell in a handbasket edition): Belgian writer euthanized, publishers liquidated, bookstore in trouble, author flees death threats

By Nathan Whitlock

Some cheerful book-related links: Belgian author Hugo Claus, suffering from Alzheimer's, is remaindered euthanized at age 78 (Associated Press) Two UK publishers liquidated over anti-bullying books scam (press release) Black-owned Brooklyn bookstore facing financial crisis ... Read More »

March 20, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Malcolm Gladwell: for or against?

By Stuart Woods

A mild controversy may be brewing around Malcolm Gladwell, the Canadian journalist and bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, and a New Yorker staff writer. The dispute arose after The New Republic's cantankerous ... Read More »

March 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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Event Photos: Paul Quarrington talks and sings

Books on film

The mathematics of books

Event Photos: Kathy Kacer at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre

Borders troubles

Bookmarks: Rowling’s suicidal thoughts, Clarke’s funeral, and the most annoying people in bookstores

Writing Toronto

Drawn & Quarterly store gets visited by language cops

Bookmarks (hell in a handbasket edition): Belgian writer euthanized, publishers liquidated, bookstore in trouble, author flees death threats

Malcolm Gladwell: for or against?

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