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Meet the authors

A couple of CanLit authors get the high-visibility profile treatment today. The CBC Arts site has a Q&A with Vancouver's Anosh Irani, whose second novel, The Song of Kahunsha, has just come out with Doubleday ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Da Vinci Code trial wraps up

By Scott MacDonald

Hearings for the Dan Brown copyright infringement case wrapped up yesterday, and Sarah Lyall of The New York Times, for her part, thinks she knows who will win. Brown's publisher, Random House, is being sued ... Read More »

March 21, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Trends in YA reading, part one

By Scott MacDonald

The CBC Arts website features a multifaceted look at marketing adult fiction to teen audiences. Although, through high school English classes and extracurricular reading, young adults have long been reading adult books, the inadvertent youth ... Read More »

March 15, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Fairytales of New York

By Leigh Anne Williams

The CBC Arts website has a strong profile of Jay McInerney, whose post-9/11 novel, The Good Life, has been getting much press. The piece is notable for its discussion of the changing character of New ... Read More »

February 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Oda named Minister of Heritage

By Scott MacDonald

Yesterday, the new government was sworn in and Prime Minister Harper's cabinet was announced. Among those named were ex-Liberal cabinet member David Emerson as Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and ... Read More »

February 7, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Milk it!

By Scott MacDonald

With sales of upwards of 25 million copies and a broad readership that even includes In Other Media's mother, who, as a rule, does not read books written in English, The Da Vinci Code truly ... Read More »

January 10, 2006 | Filed under: Book 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

Black darkens doorstep at launch

By Leigh Anne Williams

On Thursday night in Toronto, reporters swarmed a party (hosted by none other than former Ontario Premier Mike Harris) for a new book published by John Wiley & Sons Canada, Rescuing Canada's Right: Blueprint for ... Read More »

November 25, 2005 | Filed under: Book 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

May the coverage begin

By Scott MacDonald

It's only two days after the Governor General's Awards shortlists were announced, and media coverage has already been plentiful. The Toronto Star's Philip Marchand weighs in on the lack of overlap between this year's GG ... Read More »

October 19, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: CBC

Meet the authors

Da Vinci Code trial wraps up

Trends in YA reading, part one

Fairytales of New York

Oda named Minister of Heritage

Milk it!

Seeking the next J.K. Rowling

Black darkens doorstep at launch

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

May the coverage begin

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