The Salon du Livre, an international book fair in Paris, is being boycotted by a coalition of Islamic nations unhappy with the decision to award the 'Pavilion of Honour' to Israeli writers. From The Guardian: ... Read More »
A dapper-looking Douglas Coupland is interviewed on The New York Times' book blog about his next book (“a new novel set in the near future when bees are extinct"), his thoughts on the web and ... Read More »
March 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Michael Chabon has a long essay in The New Yorker on the meaning of superhero costumes. He writes: In theory, the costume forms part of the strategy of concealment. But in fact the superhero's costume ... Read More »
March 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Some book-related links: The Hachette Book Group starts using e-books internally (New York) Eminem to "write" memoir (USA Today) Author admits Holocaust memoir was made up (The Boston Globe) Timothy Findley's Pilgrim as an opera ... Read More »
March 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
From The Jewish Chronicle: An international project has been launched to reunite thousands of books looted by Nazis with their owners or their descendants. The Commission for Looted Art in London and the Nuremberg Municipal ... Read More »
February 29, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
From Reuters: Billionaire Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling would feel "exploited" if a fan's unofficial encyclopedic companion to the boy wizard series was published, she said in court papers made public on Thursday. Steve Vander ... Read More »
February 29, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
The upcoming biography of the late Chuck Cadman, the independent MP from B.C. who held the deciding vote on the 2005 Liberal government's budget, contains a political bombshell in the form of accusations that Cadman ... Read More »
February 28, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
From The New York Times: Imagine the Book of All Species: a single volume made up of one-page descriptions of every species known to science. On one page is the blue-footed booby. On another, the ... Read More »
February 28, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
From CBC.ca: A surge of bilingualism in Quebec has one of the province's most popular writers threatening to burn his entire body of work if something isn't done to stop it. Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, the author ... Read More »
February 28, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
Random House in the U.S. is offering a free download of Charles Bock's much-hyped debut novel, Beautiful Children, but only until Friday. In a statement released by Random House, Bock said, "I want people to ... Read More »
February 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
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