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Engel’s Benny Cooperman gets a new look

Author Howard Engel's novels starring private investigator Benny Cooperman have been given an updated look and will be revisiting bookstore shelves, Robert Fulford reports in the National Post. Penguin has re-launched the first 11 Cooperman ... Read More »

May 13, 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

Tales of two bookstores

By Scott MacDonald

Independent bookstores seem to be getting a lot of lovin' from the media this week, with two different stores receiving full-on profile treatment. First up is Halifax's Frog Hollow Books, profiled in The Globe and ... Read More »

May 2, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Bookmarks: publisher goes paperless, Eminem to tell all, and Holocaust memoir debunked

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: The Hachette Book Group starts using e-books internally (New York) Eminem to "write" memoir (USA Today) Author admits Holocaust memoir was made up (The Boston Globe) Timothy Findley's Pilgrim as an opera ... Read More »

March 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Russell Smith, the not-so-reluctant pornographer

By Nathan Whitlock

Just in time for Valentine's Day comes a new book from author, Globe and Mail columnist, and self-appointed fashion pundit Russell Smith. Diana, published by Biblioasis Press, is an erotic novella in diary form. Actually, ... Read More »

February 14, 2008

Bookmarks: a new Alice Munro story, a fake Robert Fisk biography of Saddam Hussein, and a complaint about pokey publishing

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: "Free Radicals," a new short story by Alice Munro (The New Yorker) Robert Fisk's bio of Saddam Hussein is selling well “ except he didn't write it (The Independent) Why does it ... Read More »

February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

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

The Internet, and other modern horrors

By Stuart Woods

Perhaps in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of blogging, Guy Gavriel Kay has a piece in this past weekend's Globe and Mail Books section about the perils facing authors in the digital age. Gavriel Kay ... Read More »

December 18, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Chummy mummies Eckler and Ehm to collaborate on kids’ book

By Nathan Whitlock

Q&Q's Deals page is on a holiday break, but we would be remiss if we didn't mention this deal, from The Globe and Mail's "The Biz" column: Rebecca Eckler has signed a deal for two ... Read More »

December 17, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Deals

Fiction vs. non-, round 2

By Leigh Anne Williams

Not too long ago, author Ken McGoogan argued in The Globe and Mail that non-fiction books get short shrift in our culture, fiction soaking up the glam and all. Now, Globe columnist and novelist Russell ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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Search Results by tag: Globe and Mail

Engel’s Benny Cooperman gets a new look

Critics stony towards Angel

Tales of two bookstores

Bookmarks: publisher goes paperless, Eminem to tell all, and Holocaust memoir debunked

Russell Smith, the not-so-reluctant pornographer

Bookmarks: a new Alice Munro story, a fake Robert Fisk biography of Saddam Hussein, and a complaint about pokey publishing

Robert Weaver remembered

The Internet, and other modern horrors

Chummy mummies Eckler and Ehm to collaborate on kids’ book

Fiction vs. non-, round 2

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