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A note on the type

In a post on his Paper Cuts blog a couple days back, New York Times Book Review staffer Dwight Garner has some fun with the overly pretentious "note on the type" pages that appear in ... Read More »

July 19, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Harry Potter and the Online Leak

By Leigh Anne Williams

In the unlikely event that you missed it, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows appears to have been leaked online. (Note: neither of the stories linked to in the previous sentence actually contain spoilers.) All ... Read More »

July 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Welcome to the working week

By Q&Q jobs

This week on Q&Q's Job Board: Sales and Marketing Manager - The Literary Press Group of Canada, Toronto, ON Sales Representative - Oxford University Press, Higher Education Division, Vancouver, BC Production Assistant - Orca Book ... Read More »

July 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Plant a tree

By Nathan Whitlock

If your environmental consciousness has been awakened to the point that you get an uneasy feeling as you sit in the shade of some grand tree reading a book printed on what you are now ... Read More »

July 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

U.S. sanctions stall preservation of Hemingway's home

By Nathan Whitlock

U.S. sanctions against Cuba are hindering efforts to restore Ernest Hemingway's home there, The Guardian reports. His Cuban estate, known as Finca Vigia (Lookout Farm), is already a museum that has been partially restored with ... Read More »

July 18, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Harry Potter and the Event Rules and Regulations

By Leigh Anne Williams

With the release of the final Harry Potter novel mere days away, the media frenzy is in full force. In The Globe and Mail on the weekend, publishing reporter James Adams looks at Canadian Potter ... Read More »

July 16, 2007 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

Go books!

By Leigh Anne Williams

Globe and Mail film critic Rick Groen had a feature essay in the weekend paper arguing that books are better than movies or TV. It seems to be a numbers game for Groen: "Over any ... Read More »

July 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Sara Gruen's big payday

By Leigh Anne Williams

The New York Times has an article about author Sara Gruen, who scored a $5-million advance from new Random House imprint Spiegel & Grau for her next two books. That's because her most recent novel, ... Read More »

July 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

In Rowan Oak

By Leigh Anne Williams

Litblogger Maud Newton recently visited Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's old house in Oxford, Mississippi, and has put together a photo tour showing, among other things, the outline for A Fable that Faulkner wrote on the ... Read More »

July 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Dion promises to restore public diplomacy funding

By Nathan Whitlock

Liberal party leader Stephane Dion met with a few Canadian writers last week at the Drake Hotel in Toronto and promised that a Liberal government would restore the $11.8-million in public diplomacy funding cut from ... Read More »

July 11, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

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