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In praise of Bowering

The Dooney's Café website has posted two selections from a recent Festschrift (or collection of tribute essays) put together for George Bowering. Jamie Reid contributes a poetic meditation about Bowering's well-known love for baseball, while ... Read More »

December 12, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Winners and losers in the American publishing sweepstakes

By Leigh Anne Williams

New York Times publishing reporter Edward Wyatt has used some BookScan data to identify over- and underachievers among the 2005 crop of American book releases. Doing well is Joan Didion, whose The Year of Magical ... Read More »

December 8, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

TO bookstore goes world-class

By Leigh Anne Williams

Author Jeremy Mercer, who's written a book called about his stint living in the Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Co., has put together a list of his favourite bookstores from around the world for The Guardian.Coming ... Read More »

December 8, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Seeking the next J.K. Rowling

By Scott MacDonald

In the middle of the holiday book-buying season, it seems that just about everyone is weighing in on kidlit. On the CBC website, Rachel Giese traces its trajectory from the 1970s and '80s, when realist ... Read More »

December 7, 2005 | Filed under: Authors

More discouraging words for would-be writers

By Scott MacDonald

Sam Sacks of the New York Press takes a stab at that educational institution we all love to hate: the graduate-level writing workshop. The importance of workshops in contemporary American literature can be seen both ... Read More »

December 7, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The politics of poetry

By Scott MacDonald

A poem was removed from Pakistani textbooks after it was found to contain what appears to be a blatant endorsement of the Bush Administration, reports Alex Kumi of The Guardian. The poem was published in ... Read More »

December 6, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Academic publishers take up on-demand technology

By Scott MacDonald

An article by Dan Carnevale of The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the popularity of digital printing, or print-on-demand, technology in the printing of scholarly monographs. Cheaper than traditional offset printing, digital technology has ... Read More »

December 6, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The latest literary movement

By Leigh Anne Williams

The British fondness for excremental humour gets its due in a piece by Louise Jury in The Independent. According to Jury, there's a new mini-trend sweeping -- or perhaps clogging -- British publishing lists. "Shit ... Read More »

December 5, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Fiction's fall

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Globe and Mail has a dispatch on "the great fiction crash of 2005." Writes the Globe's Michael Posner: "Agents and retailers are complaining that sales for new fiction are soft, that orders for reprints ... Read More »

December 5, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Co-operation makes it happen

By Scott MacDonald

The current issue of Fast Company magazine reports the story of Berrett-Koehler, a press with an innovative approach to publishing. Based in San Francisco, the 13-year-old publishing house operates on the principle of collaboration. In ... Read More »

December 1, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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In praise of Bowering

Winners and losers in the American publishing sweepstakes

TO bookstore goes world-class

Seeking the next J.K. Rowling

More discouraging words for would-be writers

The politics of poetry

Academic publishers take up on-demand technology

The latest literary movement

Fiction's fall

Co-operation makes it happen

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