In this week's edition, The Onion A.V. Club laid down 15 book-to-film adaptations that live up to their source material. Some of them are even better than the source material, such as The Godfather, Jaws, ... Read More »
Random House won't settle for $7-million – they want a bigger piece of the The Devil Wears Prada movie pie! As the film nears the coveted $100-million box office mark, according to an L.A. Times ... Read More »
July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Australia's only Nobel Prize-winning author must be rolling in his grave this week -- not a single major publisher or literary agent would release his stuff today, it seems. Earlier this summer, The Australian sent ... Read More »
July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
The magazine market for fiction may not be in quite so critical a condition after all. Toronto Life has announced plans to drop its annual Summer Fiction feature, but another city magazine has just kicked ... Read More »
July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
In his National Post arts column, Robert Fulford looks at Toronto antiquarian bookseller David Mason, who recently moved into a new and more spacious Toronto store, and Fulford takes a few swipes at booksellers in ... Read More »
July 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
To celebrate the Canadian publication of Robertson's essay collection, Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, Coach House Books held an event on July 12, 2006 at a Value Village in ... Read More »
July 12, 2006 | Filed under: Events
In this week's episode of "Meet Your Meat," HarperCollins saves a photogenic porcine pin-up from his fate at the end of an axe. Boonkinja links to an NBC story about HarperCollins' search for a fresh ... Read More »
July 12, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
After we reported last month on certain New York young ladies who eschew reading in favour of X-rated gabbing in their book clubs, Quillblog has another book club shocker, courtesy of a Bookninja-linked Denver Post ... Read More »
July 12, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Indie booksellers in Canada may think they've got it bad when it comes to the ever-encroaching chains, but English booksellers took another blow last week when "Ottakar's, the second-largest book chain, finally fell to the ... Read More »
July 11, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
The Internet Movie Database, along with a jillion other celeb-gossip-carryin' websites, announced actor Robert Downey Jr.'s plans to pen his memoirs, which will "detail his life story" and will, ostensibly, go over his various battles ... Read More »
July 11, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
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