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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 »

Globe and Mail columnist Leah McLaren is the latest public figure to opine on the state of Can Lit. Prompted by this year's awards season, McLaren takes the discussion one step further (or, perhaps backward) by ... Read More »

After nearly two weeks of silence surrounding negotiations between the Toronto Public Library and the Toronto Public Library Workers Union (TPLWU), it was announced today that the Ontario Ministry of Labour has granted the TPLWU ... Read More »
October 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Libraries

Sundry links from around the Web: In honour of Leonard Cohen's 75th birthday yesterday, 1 Heck of a Guy comes up with an incomplete list of Cohen's many nicknames. Quillblog favourites: #22: Master of the ... Read More »

Canadian mystery writer Lyn Hamilton passed away last Thursday at the age of 65. The Toronto-based writer, who was known for Chinese Alchemist, The Xibalba Murders and her globe-trotting heroine Lara McClintoch, died of cancer. According ... Read More »

Sundry links from around the Web: Is this the end of the Free Library of Philadelphia?: all free libraries in the city of brotherly love could close on Oct. 2 Dan Brown's latest literary endeavour hits shelves ... Read More »

Some book-related links: Where the Brooklyn Public Library hides the offensive books William Golding was not the lord of his own fly Travels in Alice Munro country How John Grisham helped free the Norfolk Four ... Read More »

Some book related links: Some Calgarians are still angry at McNally Robinson for leaving. Slate's Fred Kaplan explains why he wrote a whole book about the year 1959. A sneak peek at Edith Wharton's lost ... Read More »

Jet-setting author Richard Poplak travelled to 17 different countries to research his latest book, which looks at the influence of American pop culture in the Muslim world, and he's Q&Q's cover subject in the May ... Read More »

HarperCollins in the U.S. has laid off two executives and announced the scuttling of its four-year-old Collins division. In more bad news, the company revealed today that it's also closing the shortlived Bowen Press. BookExpo ... Read More »