Search Results by tag: Scandal

Author sentenced to three years in jail for insulting Thai royalty

Australian author Harry Nicolaides has been sentenced to three years in prison for violating the Lese Majeste (a crime or offense against the dignity majesty) law in Thailand. Harry Nicolaides was arrested last August over ... Read More »

January 20, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

GG poetry dust-up continues

By Scott MacDonald

The controversy surrounding this year's Governor General's Award for poetry continues apace. Yesterday, the Toronto Star devoted some ink to the story. And today, on his blog, poet (and frequent Q&Q reviewer) Zachariah Wells has ... Read More »

November 26, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Bookmarks: a blog relaunches, a novel is rediscovered, and a nobel laureate gets skewered

By Stuart Woods

Some book-related links: Noble laureate Jean-Marie Le Clézio faces the inevitable backlash Five poets write The New York Times op-ed page A scandalous novel by Kerouac and Burroughs sees the light of day (excerpted here) ... Read More »

November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: Adiga’s agent, Small Beer for Obama, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Booker winner Aravind Adiga clarifies when and why he dumped his agent, and it wasn't about money. Phew! Small Beer Press, a small press in North Carolina Massachusetts, is donating 20% of this month's sales ... Read More »

October 28, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book links

Legendary U.K. agent Pat Kavanagh dies

By Steven W. Beattie

The Bookseller is reporting that Pat Kavanagh, the British agent and wife of novelist Julian Barnes, has died. Kavanagh represented some heavy hitters in the literary world, including Joanna Trollope, John Irving, and William Trevor ... Read More »

October 20, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Banned books

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

It's the American Library Association's Banned Books Week, and their website features lists of frequently challenged books covering various eras on their website. Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale is 37th on the ALA's list of the ... Read More »

September 30, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Montgomery’s “suicide” questioned

By Scott MacDonald

Last Saturday, a descendant of Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery revealed, for the first time, that her grandmother committed suicide. In the wake of this revelation, however, Montgomery's biographer is publicly questioning ... Read More »

September 24, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Sask. librarian hits the slammer

By Stuart Woods

Contemplating a life in crime? Well, in terms of graft, the prim world of library management is wide open “ or is it? On Wednesday, a Saskatoon judge sentenced Bruce David Cameron to two years ... Read More »

August 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

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

Helter Skelter author accuses Bush of murder