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David Sedaris and a million little chuckles

There's a minor scandal brewing for American funnyman David Sedaris. Last month in a New Republic piece, Alex Heard called out Sedaris on embellishments and fabrications in several of his non-fiction humour pieces. Most of ... Read More »

April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Amazon's race to sell everything

By Leigh Anne Williams

Amazon.com released its first-quarter results last week (which contained no specific mention of Canada), to the disappointment of most investors. It appears that Amazon's aggressive investment in the toy and grocery categories is dampening profits.While ... Read More »

August 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Norton busts out Uncle Tom

By Cassandra Drudi

Uncle Tom's Cabin: key historic text or racist claptrap? PW Daily's Three Answers column put this question to Norton executive editor Robert Weil, whose company is publishing September's The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin. They grill ... Read More »

August 1, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Selling out for a bestseller

By Cassandra Drudi

The L.A. Times has a cute op/ed piece by Jane Smiley, pondering the pros and cons of auctioning off a novel cameo to the highest bidder. While she is no stranger to selling a spot ... Read More »

June 21, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Reed sneaks past Frankfurt in London book event race

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a surprise move, Reed Exhibitons has announced that next year's London Book Fair will move to a new location (west-end Earl's Court) and a new time (April 16 to 18). That follows widespread dissatisfaction ... Read More »

May 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

In Other Media gets emotional about climate change

By Scott MacDonald

Still riding high on a stellar talk delivered last night in Toronto by David Suzuki in which he both predicted imminent environmental collapse unless people change their ways right now and condemned the mainstream media's ... Read More »

February 10, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Seeking the next J.K. Rowling

By Scott MacDonald

In the middle of the holiday book-buying season, it seems that just about everyone is weighing in on kidlit. On the CBC website, Rachel Giese traces its trajectory from the 1970s and '80s, when realist ... Read More »

December 7, 2005 | Filed under: Authors

What an award means (if anything)

By Leigh Anne Williams

How reliable are literary awards as an index of quality? Not very, suggests one Toronto blogger, who argues that Kazuo Ishiguro was robbed in the recent Man Booker race (his Never Let Me Go lost ... Read More »

October 20, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Two parts sugar, three parts flour…

By Scott MacDonald

On the CBC website, Rachel Giese tells us what everyone in the Canadian book biz should already know: how to spot award-winning Canadian works of fiction. Taking a tally of 31 past winners of the ... Read More »

October 18, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Opinion

Just not that into this genre

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the CBC Arts site, Katrina Onstad surveys the chick-lit scene, focusing on non-fiction titles like He's Just Not That Into You as well as Canadian dating-themed books like Playing With Matches: Misadventures in Dating ... Read More »

April 4, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: race

David Sedaris and a million little chuckles

Amazon's race to sell everything

Norton busts out Uncle Tom

Selling out for a bestseller

Reed sneaks past Frankfurt in London book event race

In Other Media gets emotional about climate change

Seeking the next J.K. Rowling

What an award means (if anything)

Two parts sugar, three parts flour…

Just not that into this genre

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