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Tragedy plus very little time = comedy?

In the wake of the Advanced Marketing Services (AMS) bankruptcy filing, one anonymous blogger is finding some dark humour in the experience. Radio Free PGW, which launched on January 5, includes some updates on events ... Read More »

January 9, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Caution: Gangstas reading

By Alison Jones

As reported in yesterday's The Globe and Mail print edition, 50 Cent, the multi-platinum selling rapper, wants to get young African American men interested in reading. (The article is available for purchase online or free ... Read More »

January 9, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Undercover reading

By Alison Jones

Stephen King is the U.K.’s favourite guilty pleasure read, as reported in The Guardian. In a survey conducted for the Costa Book Awards 2006, King topped a list that included J.K. Rowling, John Grisham, and ... Read More »

January 8, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Extra-curricular activities

By Nathan Whitlock

Just in case you missed it over the Christmas break, Toronto Star columnist Joey Slinger points out that Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrote an article for the Star on Dec. 23 about the 100th anniversary ... Read More »

January 5, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Mean people suck

By Leigh Anne Williams

Newsflash: sometimes bloggers say mean things. Seems Canadian author Hal Niedzviecki has been Googling himself and finding some unflattering comments floating around the blogosphere, and he’s worked out how he feels about this in a ... Read More »

January 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Defending Regan

By Leigh Anne Williams

In the wake of Judith Regan’s firing from HarperCollins last month, another Regan supporter has emerged in reporter and author Steve Ketterman, writing in SF Gate. Ketterman was the ghostwriter of one Regan title, Jose ... Read More »

January 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Power in a union

By Leigh Anne Williams

Jason Sullivan, who works at the Robson Street Chapters store in Vancouver, isn’t your typical chain employee: he helped organize a union at the store in 2005, bringing the employees into the service sector local ... Read More »

January 3, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Munro: going, going….

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Alice Munro retirement dance continues. The Toronto Star’s Judy Stoffman keeps the story alive with a new piece reminding readers that Munro said back in October that she’s completed four more stories yet to ... Read More »

January 3, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Toronto sings of itself

By Leigh Anne Williams

Attention Toronto poets: get set to celebrate (or lament) your city! The Torontoist is looking for new poems about Toronto, about Torontonians, or set in Toronto. Entries are due on March 15, and the winning ... Read More »

January 3, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

The curse of Confederacy?

By Leigh Anne Williams

Slate's Peter Hyman looks at more than two decades' worth of attempts to bring John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces to the silver screen. The legendary comic novel was published in 1980, 11 years ... Read More »

December 15, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

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Tragedy plus very little time = comedy?

Caution: Gangstas reading

Undercover reading

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Mean people suck

Defending Regan

Power in a union

Munro: going, going….

Toronto sings of itself

The curse of Confederacy?

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