Search Results by tag: memoir

Bookmarks: Orwell blogs, Chabon wins big, China’s publishing industry goes quiet

Some book-related links: Orwell, the blogger (Time) Hugo Awards awarded “ Chabon wins the big one (The Hugo Awards) China's publishing industry shuts down during Olympics (The New York Times) A pair of Canadians (including ... Read More »

August 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: Solzhenitsyn, Kafka, Rushdie, Meyer, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Russians conflicted over Solzhenitsyn's legacy (The New York Times) Apparently, Kafka liked the hot stuff (Times Online) Salman Rushdie threatens to sue over bodyguard's memoir (CNN.com) Stephenie Meyer's newest breaks sales records ... Read More »

August 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: Forgery memoir was true, libraries need money, and past editors protest LATBR folding

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: A true memoir about a fraudulent life (The New York Times) Alberta libraries push for cash (Calgary Herald) Past editors of the Los Angeles Times Book Review protest folding (Editor & Publisher) ... Read More »

July 24, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries

Bookmarks: learning to read at the Bush Library, borrowing people instead of books, and picking the right beer for the book

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Bush Library to be base for literacy and education, says Laura Bush* (The Dallas Morning News) A library where you can borrow people instead of books (InfoSpeak.org) We've picked the right wine ... Read More »

April 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

The coming year in memoir fraud

By Nathan Whitlock

We here at Quillblog remember a day “ back when we were young and having remarkable and poignant experiences we reserve the right to one day lay out in book form “ when memoirs were ... Read More »

March 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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

Bookmarks: Ishmael Beah’s “poetic licence,” sci-fi’s exhaustion, and the Bard goes manga

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: The flaws in Ishmael Beah's memoir called "poetic licence" (The Australian) Is sci-fi out of ideas? (Entertainment Weekly) The Bard goes manga (The Star - Malaysia) Tales of romance, in Polish (The ... Read More »

January 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Knighton heading to Sundance

By Scott MacDonald

The Hollywood Reporter has announced the 13 projects chosen for the Sundance Film Festival's highly competitive January Screenwriters Lab, and among the lucky winners is Vancouver author Ryan Knighton. Knighton has fashioned his 2006 memoir ... Read More »

December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Shocker: Bush lied

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's probably one of the more effective advance publicity efforts in recent memory: former White House press secretary Scott McClellan now says Bush, Cheney, and other high-ranking White House officials knowingly had him lie about ... Read More »

November 21, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Ghetto lit goes mainstream

By Stuart Woods

Possibly the most vital – and certainly the most gratuitous – debate in American letters is occurring almost entirely under the radar. The controversy surrounds a body of work referred to variously as ghetto, urban, ... Read More »

October 16, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: memoir

Bookmarks: Orwell blogs, Chabon wins big, China’s publishing industry goes quiet

Bookmarks: Solzhenitsyn, Kafka, Rushdie, Meyer, and more

Bookmarks: Forgery memoir was true, libraries need money, and past editors protest LATBR folding

Bookmarks: learning to read at the Bush Library, borrowing people instead of books, and picking the right beer for the book

The coming year in memoir fraud

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

Bookmarks: Ishmael Beah’s “poetic licence,” sci-fi’s exhaustion, and the Bard goes manga

Knighton heading to Sundance

Shocker: Bush lied

Ghetto lit goes mainstream

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