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Edgar Allan Poe’s grave tradition ends after 60 years

Since 1949, an unidentified visitor known as the Poe toaster has visited Edgar Allan Poe's grave in Baltimore, Maryland, on the anniversary of the writer's birthday, leaving behind three red roses and a bottle of ... Read More »

January 19, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

New Yorker cans short fiction issue

By Steven W. Beattie

On December 4, Douglas Hunter published an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail suggesting that the annual CBC literary smackdown known as Canada Reads is biased against non-fiction: I think it's super that Canadian ... Read More »

December 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Bookmarks: The Tao of Wu, zombie hunter S. Thompson, and St. Anne of Green Gables

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: Following in the footsteps of Kanye West and 50 Cent, NPR reports that The Wu-Tang Clan's Robert F. Diggs (aka The RZA) is the latest rap artist to pen ... Read More »

October 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Farewell to “punk rock poet” Jim Carroll and mystery writer Lyn Hamilton

By Alison Potstra

Canadian mystery writer Lyn Hamilton passed away last Thursday at the age of 65. The Toronto-based writer, who was known for Chinese Alchemist, The Xibalba Murders and her globe-trotting heroine Lara McClintoch, died of cancer. According ... Read More »

September 15, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Libraries

Saskatchewan government goes after profits from Thatcher book

By Steven W. Beattie

Colin Thatcher, the former Saskatchewan politician who was convicted in 1984 of brutally murdering his ex-wife, JoAnn Wilson, has always maintained his innocence. He continues to do so in a new book, Final Appeal: Anatomy ... Read More »

September 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Kundera, de Botton, Ginsberg, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: "French" author Milan Kundera skips Czech conference on his work. Alain de Botton calls for a new literature of the workplace. Jonathan Goldstein discovers the lonely, Twilight Zone-esque hell of the signing ... Read More »

June 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book links, Book news

Murakami’s new book arrives shrouded in mystery, and weighing a ton

By Suzanne Gardner

Haruki Murakami's first novel in five years, a two-volume work called 1Q84, arrived in Japan's bookstores today. The plot details of the work have been kept tightly under wraps by both the author and his ... Read More »

May 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Canada Reads 2009 kicks off today

By Steven W. Beattie

CBC Radio's annual battle of the books, Canada Reads, kicks off today with five celebrity panelists each defending one Canadian novel they think that Canada should read. Each day this week, one novel gets knocked ... Read More »

March 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The unstoppable Book of Negroes

By Scott MacDonald

At this point, you gotta wonder: has anyone in Canada not read Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes? Released by HarperCollins Canada more than two years ago, the book has grown from a solid word-of-mouth ... Read More »

February 13, 2009 | Filed under: Awards

Bookmarks: More layoffs at Random House U.S., the credit crunch, and Richard Price’s behind

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from the Web: More wreckage at Random House U.S.: Pantheon Books publisher Janice Goldklang is laid off after 25 years with the company. How well do you know crime fiction? Take the Ceeb's ... Read More »

January 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book links

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Search Results by tag: CBC

Edgar Allan Poe’s grave tradition ends after 60 years

New Yorker cans short fiction issue

Bookmarks: The Tao of Wu, zombie hunter S. Thompson, and St. Anne of Green Gables

Farewell to “punk rock poet” Jim Carroll and mystery writer Lyn Hamilton

Saskatchewan government goes after profits from Thatcher book

Bookmarks: Kundera, de Botton, Ginsberg, and more

Murakami’s new book arrives shrouded in mystery, and weighing a ton

Canada Reads 2009 kicks off today

The unstoppable Book of Negroes

Bookmarks: More layoffs at Random House U.S., the credit crunch, and Richard Price’s behind

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