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From Giller glitz to Da Vinci decoding

With award season now having wound fully down, readers who missed Toronto Star columnist Philip Marchand's post-Giller musings will find them worth a look. He writes: "Literary scholars have a word for those little parts ... Read More »

November 29, 2004 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Bookselling, Opinion

More award controversy: jury-nominee connections exposed

By Leigh Anne Williams

There was a lot of attention paid to author André Alexis's decision to step down from the Governor General's fiction jury over a personal conflict (assumed to involve Catherine Bush's novel Claire's Head), but he ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Poetry: can you give it away?

By Leigh Anne Williams

In Vancouver's The Tyee, Fiona Lam writes about her part in the Random Acts of Poetry campaign, in which poets in cities across the country approach strangers and offer to read from their work. Unfortunately, ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Talking CanLit sex in Vancouver

By Leigh Anne Williams

With another Vancouver International Writers Festival come and gone, The Georgia Straight runs down the highlights of the various readings, interviews, and panel discussions. For example, at a CBC Radio panel, fiction writer Natalee Caple ... Read More »

November 8, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Taking the pulse of online fiction

By Leigh Anne Williams

The online litmag The Danforth Review has a long look at the boom in online short fiction. TDR's Corin Cummings conducts brief interviews with the editors of a handful of websites -- from Pindeldyboz's Shauna ... Read More »

November 8, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Dawn of the machines (in the library stacks)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The robots are coming! The online B.C. magazine The Tyee reports on the University of British Columbia library's plan to launch "a new storage system that uses robotic cranes to fetch books." Once the system's ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Martel's next move

By Leigh Anne Williams

Two years after conquering the Man Booker Prize and the Canadian retail market, Life of Pi author Yann Martel is set to unveil a follow-up. Not fiction, mind you -- Martel has now tried his ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

In fear of the cultural department store

By Leigh Anne Williams

Heather Reisman's comments at that Indigo annual general meeting a few weeks back continue to reverberate in the books community; now the Dooney's Café website has posted some belated reaction. Dooney's writer Gordon Lockheed argues ... Read More »

October 25, 2004 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Munro speaks

By Leigh Anne Williams

CanLit giant Alice Munro is pretty reclusive these days, but on the occasion of her new book, Runaway, New York Times Magazine writer Daphne Merkin tracked the author down on her home turf in southwestern ... Read More »

October 25, 2004 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Some American award griping

By Leigh Anne Williams

The announcement of the National Book Award nominees in the U.S. has already prompted much "and you are…?" head-scratching. Now, prize-spotters have moved from confusion to anger, documented in this New York Times story. Absent ... Read More »

October 18, 2004 | Filed under: Awards

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From Giller glitz to Da Vinci decoding

More award controversy: jury-nominee connections exposed

Poetry: can you give it away?

Talking CanLit sex in Vancouver

Taking the pulse of online fiction

Dawn of the machines (in the library stacks)

Martel's next move

In fear of the cultural department store

Munro speaks

Some American award griping

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