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Douglas Coupland wins monumental commission

Douglas Coupland is having a banner year. Not only did he use the occasion of this year's Massey Lectures to deliver the manuscript of a new novel, he has also designed a clothing line for ... Read More »

September 9, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Michael Geist’s covert ties to Amazon

By Stuart Woods

[This post has been updated] The debate surrounding Amazon's planned Canadian expansion has produced many arguments both for (the editorial boards at The Globe and Mail and National Post) and against (the Canadian Booksellers Association, ... Read More »

March 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Daily book biz round-up, March 15

By Scott MacDonald

What you missed over the weekend: Yet more op-ed pieces about Amazon setting up shop in Canada. Michael Geist argues for. Morley Walker argues against. (Oh, and some writer from the Calgary Herald rips the ... Read More »

March 15, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

(Some) Alberta writers ineligible for Alberta award

By Steven W. Beattie

The Alberta Readers' Choice Award, a new prize jointly sponsored by the Edmonton Public Library and the Book Publishers Association of Alberta, is worth a cool $10,000 for the winner. But there's a catch: Alberta-based ... Read More »

November 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: The Tao of Wu, zombie hunter S. Thompson, and St. Anne of Green Gables

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: Following in the footsteps of Kanye West and 50 Cent, NPR reports that The Wu-Tang Clan's Robert F. Diggs (aka The RZA) is the latest rap artist to pen ... Read More »

October 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Twilight sequel script found in trash

By Steven W. Beattie

It was a blunder worthy of CSIS. In 1999, Canada's spy agency had egg on its face after top-secret documents were stolen off the back seat of a parked car while the car's owner attended ... Read More »

May 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Author makes Christmas trek to Ottawa to deliver book

By Steven W. Beattie

How far should an author go in response to a negative review? When Dan Fleisch, an author from Springfield, Ohio, read an Amazon review of his book, A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equation, which gave ... Read More »

February 9, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Tom King ain’t goin’ to Ottawa

By Scott MacDonald

Though the NDP made significant inroads in last night's election, it wasn't enough to propel Thomas King into a seat in Parliament. The renowned author and budding politico lost badly in his hometown riding of ... Read More »

October 15, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Canadian kids’ authors on long longlist for rich Swedish prize

By Stuart Woods

Two Canadian storytellers and one Nova Scotia literacy group are in the running for the world's richest children's literary prize. Ottawa kids' novelist Brian Doyle, Quebec author and illustrator Marie-Louise Gay, and Read to Me!, ... Read More »

September 19, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Bookmarks: Shakespeare, Waugh, Sedaris, Seinfeld, Bush

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Stolen Shakespeare folio recovered in U.S. (Dallas Morning News) The battle over Brideshead Revisited (Times Online) David Sedaris in Ottawa (The Ottawa Citizen) Latest round in the Seinfeld cookbook fight (The New ... Read More »

July 14, 2008 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

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Search Results by tag: ottawa

Douglas Coupland wins monumental commission

Michael Geist’s covert ties to Amazon

Daily book biz round-up, March 15

(Some) Alberta writers ineligible for Alberta award

Bookmarks: The Tao of Wu, zombie hunter S. Thompson, and St. Anne of Green Gables

Twilight sequel script found in trash

Author makes Christmas trek to Ottawa to deliver book

Tom King ain’t goin’ to Ottawa

Canadian kids’ authors on long longlist for rich Swedish prize

Bookmarks: Shakespeare, Waugh, Sedaris, Seinfeld, Bush

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