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Robert “Jackpot” Sawyer on tonight’s FlashForward premiere

It's been a decade in the making, but tonight will see the premiere of the new ABC television series FlashForward, based on the novel by Robert J. Sawyer. The show, which is being billed as ... Read More »

September 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Douglas Coupland video clips available on iTunes

By Alison Potstra

Fans of quirky writer, visual artist, and Canadian cultural icon Douglas Coupland can watch three free video clips inspired by his new novel Generation A via the iTunes Store. Set in the near future, Generation A ... Read More »

September 1, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Paul Quarrington diagnosed with lung cancer

By Steven W. Beattie

Paul Quarrington, the Governor General's Award-winning author of Whale Music, has been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. In today's Globe and Mail, Quarrington is quoted as saying that the diagnosis is "surreal." From the ... Read More »

June 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: literature on television and updating guides

By Eric Emin Wood

Sundry links from around the web: The L.A. Times shines a light on author Conn Iggulden's historical fiction, which pretty much sounds like the sort of material you'd expect the co-author of The Dangerous Book For ... Read More »

March 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Doing the Harper shuffle

By Steven W. Beattie

Ordinary working people in the arts community who were miffed by the Conservative government's $45-million cuts to a broad array of arts programs may have reason to breathe a bit easier today. Josée Verner, the ... Read More »

October 30, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Stephen Harper vs. the Gillers

By Stuart Woods

Globe and Mail television critic John Doyle used his column yesterday to go after Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his quip about ordinary Canadians and the excesses of fatcat artists. While the issue is only ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

James Wolcott’s 1991 Oedipal woes over Mailer

By Nathan Whitlock

Vanity Fair has unearthed a 1991 television special made by American Psycho director Mary Harron and starring VF culture columnist James Wolcott, in which Wolcott gives his take on both Norman Mailer and his then-current ... Read More »

November 28, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Da Vinci Code on trial — again

By Scott MacDonald

Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown took to the stand yesterday as the star defence witness in a copyright infringement lawsuit being launched against his publisher, Random House. The claimants this time around are Richard ... Read More »

March 14, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Like daytime television (on PBS)

By Scott MacDonald

Often, the stories behind books are almost as interesting as the books themselves. In the case of lost manuscripts, speculation abounds concerning the contents of books – in the words of Stuart Kelly, "The lost ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Authors

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