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 »
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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 »
Sponsored Blog Post: Audrey Niffenegger resides in Chicago, where she is a visual artist and professor in the MFA program at the Columbia College Chicago Centre for Book and Paper Arts. At the end of ... Read More »
July 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Publishers Weekly announced this morning that it's being put up for sale. Reed Business Information, which publishes over 400 trade publications including PW, Library Journal, and School Library Journal, intends to sell most of its ... Read More »
July 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news
The Google book search settlement (for background, see here and here) faces yet another hurdle. The New York Times is reporting today that the U.S. Justice Department has confirmed its intention to investigate whether or ... Read More »
July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Organizations like PEN and Amnesty International battle tirelessly to free writers who have been silenced, often through quasi-judicial means. But what happens when it goes the other way “ when someone is forced to write ... Read More »
June 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
New York Times columnist Ross Douhat (who does not look at all like David Brent ... well, maybe just a little) believes that Dan Brown's novels are successful not just because the books are cheesy ... Read More »
May 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book culture, Opinion
Sundry links from around the Web: The New York Times looks at established authors who write well into old age. The co-author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies announces his next book: Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter. ... Read More »
April 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
For those who thought the old adage was a joke: William S. Burroughs's shopping list showed up on eBay (and was purchased for $400). Do female novelists write about sex less skillfully than men? Author ... Read More »
March 4, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
According to The New York Times, the widow of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick has reworked his last, unfinished novel, The Owl in Daylight, and is self-releasing it through a print-on-demand publishing service. Tessa Dick, ... Read More »
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