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Adventures in book packaging

The controversy over Kaavya Viswanathan's plagiarism keeps picking up speed, so here's a quick recap. The Harvard student scored a $500,000 advance for her debut chicklit novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and ... Read More »

April 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Ticknor love in America

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sheila Heti's novel Ticknor was recently published in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and has been attracting the admiration of several literary blogs. One site, the Litblog Co-op, has been running Ticknor-related content ... Read More »

April 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Addressing the needs of young readers, part 1

By Scott MacDonald

The Seattle Times website features an interesting report on a continuing trend in some high school reading lists. Interspersing arduous classical texts with contemporary works by women and ethnic minorities seems to have led to ... Read More »

April 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Addressing the needs of young readers, part 2

By Scott MacDonald

In Edinburgh, Scotland, where unemployment has risen to over 18% and 23% of households fall under the low-income threshold, stability has been found in a somewhat unlikely place: a local library. Turning young, rambunctious patrons ... Read More »

April 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Harper's bid for totalitarianism backfires

By Scott MacDonald

What's the best way to sell a book? Recent events surrounding Mark Tushingham's book, Hotter Than Hell, suggest that a little controversy can't hurt. In Other Media linked last week to coverage of the Harper ... Read More »

April 25, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Go, poetry!

By Scott MacDonald

A new website devoted to Canadian poetry has recently been launched. Edited by poets and reviewers Dani Couture and Alex Boyd, who also organizes Toronto's IV lounge reading series, the Northern Poetry Review bills itself ... Read More »

April 25, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

On photography

By Leigh Anne Williams

There are a couple of photo-related items to point out today. The CBC Arts website has a photo gallery of stills from Carte Blanche, a brand-new collection of the work of various Canadian photographers and ... Read More »

April 20, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Second-novel success, or sophomore jinx?

By Leigh Anne Williams

With Charles Frazier's second novel, Thirteen Moons, now scheduled for an October release, The New York Times takes a look at the considerable expectations the book will face. Frazier's 1997 debut, Cold Mountain, was a ... Read More »

April 20, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

On the graphic memoir

By Scott MacDonald

The Philadelphia Inquirer recently posted an article on its website about the rise of graphic memoirs, or memoirs in comic book form. This news itself isn't so noteworthy: with numerous autobiographically inspired books like Art ... Read More »

April 19, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The books on screen

By Scott MacDonald

In the world of filmic adaptations of books, good books don't necessarily make for good films, and great films are not always based on good books. A panel of experts gathered by The Guardian has ... Read More »

April 19, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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Adventures in book packaging

Ticknor love in America

Addressing the needs of young readers, part 1

Addressing the needs of young readers, part 2

Harper's bid for totalitarianism backfires

Go, poetry!

On photography

Second-novel success, or sophomore jinx?

On the graphic memoir

The books on screen

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