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Canadian director tackles Midnight’s Children

The Indian-born Canadian film director Deepa Mehta is set to adapt Salman Rushdie's masterpiece Midnight's Children, which was twice selected as the best-ever Booker Prize winner. The Guardian reports: Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie's panoramic 1981 ... Read More »

November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Michael Crichton dies

By Scott MacDonald

Online news outlets are buzzing this afternoon with the news that Michael Crichton has died. According to the Toronto Star, the 66-year-old author of mega-sellers like Jurassic Park and Timeline passed away yesterday after a ... Read More »

November 5, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Twilight filmmakers have a stake in sticking closely to the book

By Steven W. Beattie

There's an old saw that says never judge a book by its movie. For the makers of Twilight, the upcoming film based on the first book in the gajillion-selling series of teen vampire novels by ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: More on IFOA, Payback, and the limitations of big-box bookstores

By Stuart Woods

Margaret Atwood talks to Salon about her well-timed meditation on debt, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Are Canadian authors' festivals the greatest? More gripes about those nasty chain bookstores Reed Elsevier beginning ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Watching Watchmen

By Scott MacDonald

Earlier this week, in New York, filmmaker Zack Snyder presented the first lengthy sneak preview of Watchmen, his adaptation of Alan Moore's landmark graphic novel. The preview was organized for a select group of media ... Read More »

October 8, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Phil Marchand lands at the National Post

By Nathan Whitlock

Longtime Toronto Star book critic Phil Marchand, who switched jobs with former Star film critic Geoff Pevere at the beginning of this year, has now begun what is being promised as a weekly books column ... Read More »

September 29, 2008

Paul Quarrington’s new venture: cinÃ©aste

By Steven W. Beattie

Here's a slug this Quillblogger didn't expect to see: "A short film by writer/director Paul Quarrington." But, according to Open Book Toronto, (and as reported by Quill & Quire Omni this past summer) the acclaimed ... Read More »

September 22, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Books are every bit as exciting as movies, say scientists

By Scott MacDonald

The next time someone tries to tell you that movies are a more visceral, exciting medium than literature, you can counter their arguments by pointing to a new scientific study that has just been released ... Read More »

August 13, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Teacher suspended over Freedom Writers

By Scott MacDonald

A teacher in Indiana has been suspended without pay for 18 months for using The Freedom Writers Diary, a widely lauded collection of biographical stories written by inner-city teenagers, as part of her curriculum. For ... Read More »

July 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Borders launches Borders.com (again)

By Scott MacDonald

Back in 2001, when the dot-com boom went bust, the U.S. bookstore chain Borders decided to get out of the online bookselling biz and scrapped Borders.com. Now, however, they seem to have thought better of ... Read More »

May 28, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

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Search Results by tag: film

Canadian director tackles Midnight’s Children

Michael Crichton dies

Twilight filmmakers have a stake in sticking closely to the book

Bookmarks: More on IFOA, Payback, and the limitations of big-box bookstores

Watching Watchmen

Phil Marchand lands at the National Post

Paul Quarrington’s new venture: cinÃ©aste

Books are every bit as exciting as movies, say scientists

Teacher suspended over Freedom Writers

Borders launches Borders.com (again)

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