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Marchand v. Marchand

Talking to oneself is something a lot of us do, but most of us don't publish the results. Toronto Star books columnist Phil Marchand does just this in a recent feature on the newspaper's website.Reading ... Read More »

November 1, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

NaNoWriMo primes young hands for arthritis

By Scott MacDonald

Some will sweat it out, some will write it off, but for those who just need deadlines to write, the seventh annual National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, kicks off today. The event's name is ... Read More »

November 1, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Copyright — who needs it?

By Leigh Anne Williams

Wouldn't we all be better off without copyright laws as they're currently conceived? That's the position of an International Herald-Tribune opinion piece. Co-writers Joost Smiers and Marijke van Schijndel (who were, presumably, paid for the ... Read More »

October 27, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Getting it wrong?

By Leigh Anne Williams

A couple of weeks ago, when Time magazine came up with that list of the 100 greatest novels of the past 82 years, there was an added bonus: in many cases, you could get a ... Read More »

October 27, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Results just in: 1 in 3 Londoners buy books to appear smarter

By Scott MacDonald

John Ezard of the Guardian reports on an amusing but troubling survey result that found that one out of three Londoners have purchased books simply because they thought it would make them look smarter. This ... Read More »

October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Indigestion for the book biz

By Scott MacDonald

Marking the release of The Digested Read, a collection of satire on the publishing industry, the Guardian's John Crace explains the rationale behind Digested Reading, a practice whereby "a book [is rewritten] in the style ... Read More »

October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Big deals, little deals, and parties at the Frankfurt Book Fair

By Scott MacDonald

In a Frankfurt wrapup piece in yesterday's New York Times, Edward Wyatt dishes on the the world's biggest book fair and ultimately asks, in this world of instant communication, "does anyone really need to sit ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Like daytime television (on PBS)

By Scott MacDonald

Often, the stories behind books are almost as interesting as the books themselves. In the case of lost manuscripts, speculation abounds concerning the contents of books – in the words of Stuart Kelly, "The lost ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Authors

What an award means (if anything)

By Leigh Anne Williams

How reliable are literary awards as an index of quality? Not very, suggests one Toronto blogger, who argues that Kazuo Ishiguro was robbed in the recent Man Booker race (his Never Let Me Go lost ... Read More »

October 20, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Experimental fiction in Canada: the great non-debate

By Leigh Anne Williams

In his latest Globe and Mail column, author (and recent Governor General's Award fiction juror) Russell Smith looks at Ben Marcus's attack on Jonathan Franzen in the most recent issue of Harper's. (Franzen has questioned ... Read More »

October 20, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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Marchand v. Marchand

NaNoWriMo primes young hands for arthritis

Copyright — who needs it?

Getting it wrong?

Results just in: 1 in 3 Londoners buy books to appear smarter

Indigestion for the book biz

Big deals, little deals, and parties at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Like daytime television (on PBS)

What an award means (if anything)

Experimental fiction in Canada: the great non-debate

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