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Rowling "pretty and nice" at Toronto reading

A for-kids-only reading by J.K. Rowling at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre went off without a hitch, according to Quillblog's two exclusive sources, both of whom are nine years old. Rowling reportedly read her favourite passage ... Read More »

October 23, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Richler's film apprenticeship

By Stuart Woods

Charles Foran, writing in The Walrus (subscription required), previews the TV adaptation of Mordecai Richler's St. Urbain's Horseman, which airs Sept. 19 and 20 on CBC. Foran also describes Richler's involvement with the film industry, ... Read More »

September 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Friday fun, part 2: books may be addictive

By Leigh Anne Williams

Winner of this week's clever design sweepstakes comes to us from Britain. It's this's TankBooks project, in which several classic novellas and stories are being released in cigarette-style packages. (Thanks to the design site Veer ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

IBBY Canada's fundraiser goes global

By Nathan Whitlock

IBBY Canada is holding its biennial Hot, Hot Cuba! fundraiser this Wednesday at a Toronto club. In the past, the evening of live music and salsa dancing has raised money to help children in Cuba, ... Read More »

March 19, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Around the world in a few minutes

By Leigh Anne Williams

Salon has launched "The Literary Guide to the World," a series of writeups about books about specific places, organized in map format. (And it's all a promotional tie-in with the Travel Channel, it seems.)Writes Salon's ... Read More »

June 16, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Chinese wordsmith tossed in the pokey

By Cassandra Drudi

After spending the '90s in prison for his outcry against China's curb-stompage of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement, Internet journalist Yang Tianshui has been thrown in jail for his predilection for free speech.He got 12 ... Read More »

May 18, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Vice's vice for plagiarism

By Leigh Anne Williams

A few weeks back, news broke that the University of Georgia Press was pulping a short-story collection by Brad Vice called The Bear Bryant Funeral Train after it came out that one of the stories, ... Read More »

December 1, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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