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The outsiders

In a piece on the Tyee site entitled "Lies That Writers Tell Themselves," author Crawford Killan takes on the trope of the author as a social outsider who self-destructs, beginning with Horatio Alger and Jack ... Read More »

November 10, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Natural literary selection

By Leigh Anne Williams

There's been historical criticism, biographical criticism, Marxist criticism, and many more. The latest literary theory to get some mainstream attention is Darwinian criticism. In a feature in The New York Times Magazine, writer D.T. Max ... Read More »

November 10, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Literary history as an excuse for drinking

By Scott MacDonald

With heritage locales dedicated to the likes of Joyce and Wilde and guided literature-themed tours brimming with more foreign visitors than ever finished Ulysses, the Irish tourism industry makes a mint from its literary heritage. ... Read More »

November 9, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Books vs. readers

By Scott MacDonald

Kevin Larimer writes in the online edition of Poets & Writers magazine of a surprising preference that appears to be held among poets. As part of an informal poll, Joseph Bednarik, marketing director of the ... Read More »

November 9, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Win an award. Sell some books?

By Scott MacDonald

We all know that Gillers and Governor General's Awards are boons for book sales in Canada. A book gets shortlisted, and its sales go up. A book wins, and its sales go up even further. ... Read More »

November 8, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Bookselling

Three-man prenups

By Scott MacDonald

A recent article on the New York Times website affords readers a glimpse into the home of American book-design icon Chip Kidd. Bought on the cheap in what was once known as Hell's Kitchen in ... Read More »

November 8, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

There's such a lot of world to see (and write about)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The CBC Arts website, up and running again after the lockout, checks in on a group of like-minded Vancouver writers who are proponents of travel-themed non-fiction. "The group allows us to hash out these ideas ... Read More »

November 3, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Farewell Korda

By Leigh Anne Williams

Legendary American editor Michael Korda announced yesterday that he'll be stepping down from his longtime position as editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster. Korda has been with the company for 47 years (the past 37 of ... Read More »

November 3, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

On the theft of books

By Scott MacDonald

Amidst the constant presence in the news of library scanning projects and lawsuits for copyright infringement, Matthew Battles, an editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin, reiterates in an article for The Boston Globe the importance ... Read More »

November 2, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

On the falsification of books

By Scott MacDonald

Henry Alford reports in a New Yorker piece from last August about an unnamed investigator's search for a proverbial needle in the haystack -- the single falsified word in the most recent edition of the ... Read More »

November 2, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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The outsiders

Natural literary selection

Literary history as an excuse for drinking

Books vs. readers

Win an award. Sell some books?

Three-man prenups

There's such a lot of world to see (and write about)

Farewell Korda

On the theft of books

On the falsification of books

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