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Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi joins fight against Iranian “coup d’Ã©tat”

The National Post points us to a story in ADN Kronos about Persepolis author (and director of the film version) Marjane Satrapi's efforts to expose what many believe was an enormous electoral fraud in last ... Read More »

June 17, 2009 | Filed under: 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

Can a commercial printer invoke religion in order to refuse services?

By Suzanne Gardner

A blog post on Torontoist yesterday looked at Toronto printer Harmony Printing, and its refusal to produce author Adam Bourret's autobiographical graphic novel I'm Crazy, a story that deals with "histories, secrets, obsessive compulsive disorder, ... Read More »

May 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Deals

HarperCollins cancels Ballard memoir

By Steven W. Beattie

In 1996, Harold Brodkey published This Wild Darkness, a slim volume describing, in often painful detail, his physical deterioration from AIDS. Portions of his journal from this period remain online, and provide starkly honest insights ... Read More »

April 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Which is more worrisome: Jack Black as Kesey, or Angelina Jolie as Scarpetta?

By Steven W. Beattie

In book-related film news, Quillblog is tickled pink (or kandy-kolored, as the case may be) to learn that Gus Van Sant has agreed to direct a film version of Tom Wolfe's classic work of gonzo ... Read More »

April 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The IMDB of publishing?

By Eric Emin Wood

The Los Angeles Times reports on a beta website, filedbyauthor.com, which aims to create Web pages (1.8 million so far) for just about every author who's ever existed, including a bio, links, and a list ... Read More »

March 31, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Debut novel paints unflattering familial portrait: novelist’s family upset

By Steven W. Beattie

Apologize, Apologize! is not just the title of Elizabeth Kelly's debut novel, it's also what her estranged brother is demanding she do on account of the way their family is represented in the book. According ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Surprise! Fairy tales are not PC

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

According to an article in the Telegraph, a poll of 3,000 British parents found that parents are refusing to read "traditional" fairy tales to their children because they fear their kids will be "emotionally damaged." ... Read More »

January 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Depressed economy not all bad news for publishers

By Steven W. Beattie

The economic turmoil in global financial markets is making a lot of folks depressed (ha!), but it apparently hasn't stopped one mega-publisher from handing out generous bonuses to staff. The same week that Houghton Mifflin ... Read More »

December 1, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

EU digital library off to a shaky start

By Stuart Woods

It was supposed to be a new library for a new millennium, but within 24 hours of the launch of Europeana, an EU initiative to store millions of documents in a searchable online repository, the ... Read More »

November 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

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Search Results by tag: CLA

Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi joins fight against Iranian “coup d’Ã©tat”

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

Can a commercial printer invoke religion in order to refuse services?

HarperCollins cancels Ballard memoir

Which is more worrisome: Jack Black as Kesey, or Angelina Jolie as Scarpetta?

The IMDB of publishing?

Debut novel paints unflattering familial portrait: novelist’s family upset

Surprise! Fairy tales are not PC

Depressed economy not all bad news for publishers

EU digital library off to a shaky start

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