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Bookmarks: Economic downturn edition

Canada's Sun Media is cutting 600 jobs in Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada -- about 10 percent of the workforce (CBCnews.ca) Amazon U.K. employees are being forced to work seven days a week; they are given ... Read More »

December 16, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Milan Kundera accused of acting as a Communist informant in the 1950s

By Steven W. Beattie

The reclusive Czech-born author Milan Kundera has been accused of informing on a man who allegedly worked as a spy in the 1950s. According to the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, a 1950 ... Read More »

October 14, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Bookmarks: Orwell blogs, Chabon wins big, China’s publishing industry goes quiet

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Orwell, the blogger (Time) Hugo Awards awarded “ Chabon wins the big one (The Hugo Awards) China's publishing industry shuts down during Olympics (The New York Times) A pair of Canadians (including ... Read More »

August 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: Solzhenitsyn, Kafka, Rushdie, Meyer, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Russians conflicted over Solzhenitsyn's legacy (The New York Times) Apparently, Kafka liked the hot stuff (Times Online) Salman Rushdie threatens to sue over bodyguard's memoir (CNN.com) Stephenie Meyer's newest breaks sales records ... Read More »

August 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Cellist vs. Cellist

By Scott MacDonald

Seems there's a bit of controversy brewing around Steven Galloway's novel The Cellist of Sarajevo, which was published a few months back by Knopf Canada. (Read Q&Q's review here.) According to the CBC, the real-life ... Read More »

July 18, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Critics stony towards Angel

By Scott MacDonald

The recent parade of big-budget CanLit film adaptations that began with Emotional Arithmetic and Fugitive Pieces continues this week with the release of The Stone Angel, starring American actress Ellen Burstyn. Not surprisingly, critics are ... Read More »

May 9, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: critic saves Nabokov novel, senator saves writer’s home, but nothing could save Duddy Kravitz musical

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Did a Slate critic help save Nabokov's last novel from the flames? (Slate) Ontario senator helps save Joy Kogawa's childhood home (CBC.ca) Duddy Kravitz: The Musical was doomed from the start “ ... Read More »

April 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: romance writer splits with publisher, English gets a body check during playoffs, and library gets its own beer

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Romance writer Cassie Edwards breaks with publisher over plagiarism allegations (CBC.ca) Mark Abley on playoff English (The Gazette) U.K. library's centenary marked with beer (The Citizen) At home with poet Raymond Souster ... Read More »

April 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Burning books for bilingualism

By Nathan Whitlock

From CBC.ca: A surge of bilingualism in Quebec has one of the province's most popular writers threatening to burn his entire body of work if something isn't done to stop it. Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, the author ... Read More »

February 28, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Robert Weaver remembered

By Scott MacDonald

An industry tribute to the late Robert Weaver, who died last Saturday at the age of 87, was held in Toronto's Massey College last night (see photo below). Though it was a small, closed gathering, ... Read More »

January 31, 2008 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

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Search Results by tag: CBC

Bookmarks: Economic downturn edition

Milan Kundera accused of acting as a Communist informant in the 1950s

Bookmarks: Orwell blogs, Chabon wins big, China’s publishing industry goes quiet

Bookmarks: Solzhenitsyn, Kafka, Rushdie, Meyer, and more

Cellist vs. Cellist

Critics stony towards Angel

Bookmarks: critic saves Nabokov novel, senator saves writer’s home, but nothing could save Duddy Kravitz musical

Bookmarks: romance writer splits with publisher, English gets a body check during playoffs, and library gets its own beer

Burning books for bilingualism

Robert Weaver remembered

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