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Michael Geist’s covert ties to Amazon

[This post has been updated] The debate surrounding Amazon's planned Canadian expansion has produced many arguments both for (the editorial boards at The Globe and Mail and National Post) and against (the Canadian Booksellers Association, ... Read More »

March 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Readers salivate over Salinger’s unpublished manuscripts

By Steven W. Beattie

J.D. Salinger has been dead a scant five days, but already people are clamouring for his unpublished work to be made available. In a 1974 interview (one of the few the famously reclusive author ever ... Read More »

February 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Librarian songs, Apple-themed poetry, and more

By Laura Godfrey

From today's Web, some literary links for your perusal: Galleycat reveals that the book Deep River, by Japanese author Shusaku Endo, will play a role in an upcoming episode of Lost's final season Flavorwire compiles ... Read More »

January 26, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

No “oral sex” in California school dictionaries

By Steven W. Beattie

The Guardian is reporting that the 10th edition of The Mirriam-Webster Dictionary has been yanked from classrooms in the Menifee Union district of California after a parent complained about a "sexually graphic" definition for the ... Read More »

January 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Robert Munsch’s latest grounded by terrorist threats

By Laura Godfrey

After the Christmas Day terrorist threat aboard a Detroit-bound plane, the public has had to deal with longer wait times, intrusive full-body scanners “ and now the delay of the latest book from Robert Munsch. ... Read More »

January 19, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Fear of poetry waning, and the Globe opens the BÃ¶k on lipograms

By Steven W. Beattie

The Huffington Post has taught Quillblog a new word. "Metrophobia" is not an aversion to riding the Paris subway or to well-coiffed men; it refers to a fear of poetry. And apparently, this affliction is ... Read More »

January 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Quirk Classics reboots another masterpiece with Android Karenina

By Laura Godfrey

What better way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tolstoy's death than by breathing new life into one of his classic works? After the unexpected success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it has become ... Read More »

January 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

The Baby-Sitters Club returns

By Laura Godfrey

Plenty of young women who grew up in the 1980s and '90s still fondly remember The Baby-Sitters Club, the book series that motivated many childhood trips to the library. Ten years after the series ceased ... Read More »

January 6, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Christian publisher gives Joseph Conrad a makeover

By Scott MacDonald

In order to protect the public's delicate sensibilities, conservative Netherlands-based Christian publisher WordBridge Publishing has reprinted Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the Narcissus as The N-word of the Narcissus. According to the publisher's website, the ... Read More »

January 5, 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

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Search Results by tag: CLA

Michael Geist’s covert ties to Amazon

Readers salivate over Salinger’s unpublished manuscripts

Bookmarks: Librarian songs, Apple-themed poetry, and more

No “oral sex” in California school dictionaries

Robert Munsch’s latest grounded by terrorist threats

Fear of poetry waning, and the Globe opens the BÃ¶k on lipograms

Quirk Classics reboots another masterpiece with Android Karenina

The Baby-Sitters Club returns

Christian publisher gives Joseph Conrad a makeover

New Yorker cans short fiction issue

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