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15 TIFF films for the literary-minded

You're not going to get close to Brad Pitt, in town this weekend for the premiere of Moneyball, the adaptation of Michael Lewis's baseball book of the same name, but if you're attending the Toronto ... Read More »

September 9, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

In the July/August issue of Q&Q: 2011 fall preview

By Sue Carter

The busy season for publishers has no shortage of big new releases, with novels from Ondaatje, Vanderhaeghe, and Endicott, the Massey Lectures from Adam Gopnik, and kids' books from Kenneth Oppel and Kit Pearson. In ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Preview

Artist Amy Switzer creates birds from books

By Sue Carter

Barrie, Ontario, artist Amy Switzer's latest exhibition, Bird Call, investigates our endless fascination with, and apparent need to anthropomorphize, animals (Lolcats, anyone?). For her lifelike paper-bird sculptures, which she contains under glass domes, Switzer layers ... Read More »

June 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up: Russian book seized; Moleskine meets Kindle; and more

By Scott MacDonald

Not a lot going on out there today, but here's a few things: Russian police seize 100,000 anti-Putin books Today in book theft: man in tweed systematically loots U.K. library; rare book dealer heads to ... Read More »

June 17, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Daily book biz round-up, March 16

By Scott MacDonald

Another day, another news round-up: British Airways doesn't care about book people A sneak preview of the new titles publishers are taking to the London Book Fair Colin Thatcher ordered to hand over book profits ... Read More »

March 16, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Yann Martel finally hears from the PMO

By Suzanne Gardner

For over two years, Life of Pi author Yann Martel has been sending books that have "been known to expand stillness" to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Beginning with Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich ... Read More »

June 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The IMDB of publishing?

By Eric Emin Wood

The Los Angeles Times reports on a beta website, filedbyauthor.com, which aims to create Web pages (1.8 million so far) for just about every author who's ever existed, including a bio, links, and a list ... Read More »

March 31, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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

Bookmarks: romance writer splits with publisher, English gets a body check during playoffs, and library gets its own beer

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Romance writer Cassie Edwards breaks with publisher over plagiarism allegations (CBC.ca) Mark Abley on playoff English (The Gazette) U.K. library's centenary marked with beer (The Citizen) At home with poet Raymond Souster ... Read More »

April 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Richler's film apprenticeship

By Stuart Woods

Charles Foran, writing in The Walrus (subscription required), previews the TV adaptation of Mordecai Richler's St. Urbain's Horseman, which airs Sept. 19 and 20 on CBC. Foran also describes Richler's involvement with the film industry, ... Read More »

September 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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