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McDonald's gears up for Fast Food Nation film

Film blog Cinematical recently featured a short, comical report on McDonald's full-scale PR campaign on the eve of the release of the filmic adaptation of Eric Schlosser's book, Fast Food Nation. Blogger Martha Fischer writes, ... Read More »

April 18, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Might is right

By Scott MacDonald

In what appears to be an attempt to keep a lid on the pot of global warming, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has barred Mark Tushingham, a scientist for Environment Canada and the author of the ... Read More »

April 18, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Beckettmania

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's the 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's birth today, and the University of Texas at Austin is celebrating with a website called "Fathoms from Anywhere: A Samuel Beckett Centenary Exhibition." Based on a 1984 non-virtual ... Read More »

April 13, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Politics and the pen

By Leigh Anne Williams

With Michael Ignatieff eyeing the Liberal Party leadership, we're now facing the possibility of a genuine novelist actually running the country at some point down the road. (Though better known for his non-fiction, Ignatieff has ... Read More »

April 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Judgment Day: The Story of My Life, Not Guilty in a Trial by Fire on the Island on a Good Day to Die

By Scott MacDonald

Consulting with the American Library Association, which compiled a list of commonly used book titles, the Associated Press lets us in on what a few of them are and the issues that surround them -- ... Read More »

April 12, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Mr. Mock-turtleneck and Blazer gets in trouble again

By Scott MacDonald

The world just can't seem to leave its wealthiest conspiracy theorist alone. The latest incident in the Da Vinci Code money grab sees Mikhail Anikin, a Russian art historian, vying for a public apology and ... Read More »

April 12, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

Words, words everywhere

By Scott MacDonald

Since "findings" by the Global Language Monitor were made public a few weeks ago, a hot topic in media outlets as diverse as America's National Public Radio, London's Sunday Times, and China's People's Daily concerns ... Read More »

April 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Peck does it again

By Leigh Anne Williams

Bad-boy book reviewer and author Dale Peck has taken his literary-criticism-as-theatre approach (or perhaps literary criticism as pro wrestling) to its logical conclusion with a new look-at-me stunt. The U.S. website The Morning News asked ... Read More »

April 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Rock & read, part 2: the rock novel

By Leigh Anne Williams

Following up on yesterday's post about the fondness of metal bands for epic or romantic poetry, In Other Media would like to point interested readers to an exhaustive list of 50-plus rock & roll novels ... Read More »

April 6, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Women and men and books

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Guardian site has the story of a survey of 500 men on "novels that changed their lives." First, the good news: Fight Club is nowhere to be found on the list, so In Other ... Read More »

April 6, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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McDonald's gears up for Fast Food Nation film

Might is right

Beckettmania

Politics and the pen

Judgment Day: The Story of My Life, Not Guilty in a Trial by Fire on the Island on a Good Day to Die

Mr. Mock-turtleneck and Blazer gets in trouble again

Words, words everywhere

Peck does it again

Rock & read, part 2: the rock novel

Women and men and books

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