Search Results by tag: Alice Munro

The view from the edge of retirement

The allegedly press-shy Alice Munro was the subject of long features in the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail this week, and in the former she turns over another card in the ongoing media ... Read More »

November 2, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Is CanLit edgy?

By Nathan Whitlock

A story in The Toronto Star asks whether contemporary Canadian literature is or isn't "anti-urban and anti-modern in spirit, and inimical to experimental writers" – like Douglas Coupland, who sparked the debate with an online ... Read More »

August 25, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Industry news, Opinion

The Canadian short story

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Danforth Review has a brief interview with Sara Jamieson, an academic who's currently studying Alice Munro's work and who teaches a University of Calgary course called "The Short Story in Canada." Interviewer Michael Bryson ... Read More »

May 16, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Only on public television

By Scott MacDonald

Those who feel that their TVs are a little starved of bookish Canadian content will take comfort in two upcoming broadcasts. Tomorrow night, TVO's interview program, Person 2 Person, will feature an hour-long interview with ... Read More »

April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

Vermont: Canada's newest province

By Scott MacDonald

Earlier this year, The Guardian's Culture Vulture blog made a New Year's resolution of a kind: to embark on a world literature tour spotlighting work from countries overlooked on the literary map; that is to ... Read More »

March 22, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The view from Canada on classic short stories

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's a parade of Chekhov, Carver, Joyce, and, of course, Alice Munro over at The Danforth Review. The literary website has asked 27 Canadian writers to craft a "Short Story 101" syllabus: "TDR asked 27 ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

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

Two parts sugar, three parts flour…

By Scott MacDonald

On the CBC website, Rachel Giese tells us what everyone in the Canadian book biz should already know: how to spot award-winning Canadian works of fiction. Taking a tally of 31 past winners of the ... Read More »

October 18, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Opinion

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

One-on-one with Alice Munro

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's a celebration of Alice Munro this week in The New Yorker. In this week's issue, the magazine is publishing no less than three linked Munro stories; the first of them, "Chance," is available free ... Read More »

June 7, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: Alice Munro

The view from the edge of retirement

Is CanLit edgy?

The Canadian short story

Only on public television

Vermont: Canada's newest province

The view from Canada on classic short stories

Win an award. Sell some books?

Two parts sugar, three parts flour…

Munro speaks

One-on-one with Alice Munro

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