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HarperCollins cancels Ballard memoir

In 1996, Harold Brodkey published This Wild Darkness, a slim volume describing, in often painful detail, his physical deterioration from AIDS. Portions of his journal from this period remain online, and provide starkly honest insights ... Read More »

April 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Those bloody, author-thievin’ Irish

By Scott MacDonald

In response to the recent spat between Ukrainians and Russians over the true citizenship of Nikolai Gogol, The Guardian books blogger John Mullan questions the whole notion of countries laying claims of ownership on writers. ... Read More »

April 1, 2009

Bookmarks: 1,000 novels everyone must read, toilet poems, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

The Guardian has created a list of 1000 novels everyone must read, broken down into categories like comedy, crime, family and self, and state of the nation. In considering the list, Stuart Walton wonders whether ... Read More »

January 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: J.K. Rowling’s latest tome

By Stuart Woods

Beedlemania: J.K. Rowling's first post-Potter title hits stores. (The Guardian's Alison Flood live blogs it here) Sam Leith, the venerable literary editor at The Telegraph, is informed of his redundancy Just add water? Viking unleashes ... Read More »

December 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Public consulted about U.K. poet laureate

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

The search for the next U.K. poet laureate -- Andrew Motion's successor -- began today, with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport inviting the public to make suggestions for who the next versifier should ... Read More »

November 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

EU digital library off to a shaky start

By Stuart Woods

It was supposed to be a new library for a new millennium, but within 24 hours of the launch of Europeana, an EU initiative to store millions of documents in a searchable online repository, the ... Read More »

November 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Bookmarks: Giller madness, remembering the fallen, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

The 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize will be awarded tonight in Toronto. Who will win, and why? A rundown of the literary award (The Globe and Mail) Other awards can learn from the Gillers (The Vancouver ... Read More »

November 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: DFW, BHL, and a librarian in NYC

By Stuart Woods

Was David Foster Wallace the greatest writer of his generation? David Lipsky makes the case in his Rolling Stone profile, excerpted here An appreciation of legendary U.K. agent Pat Kavanagh, also recently deceased French provocateur ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Man Booker also-ran Sebastian Barry “entitled to be disappointed” … says Booker juror

By Steven W. Beattie

Horse-trading, you say? Compromise? The acceptable third choice? This would appear to be what adjudicating a major literary prize comes down to. Little more than a month after the Guardian published its exposé covering 40 ... Read More »

October 23, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Nobel jury head slams U.S. authors

By Scott MacDonald

According to The Guardian, Nobel jury head Horace Engdahl has got a bit of a hate-on for U.S. authors, describing U.S. writing as "insular and ignorant": Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl told ... Read More »

October 1, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Opinion

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Search Results by tag: the Guardian

HarperCollins cancels Ballard memoir

Those bloody, author-thievin’ Irish

Bookmarks: 1,000 novels everyone must read, toilet poems, and more

Bookmarks: J.K. Rowling’s latest tome

Public consulted about U.K. poet laureate

EU digital library off to a shaky start

Bookmarks: Giller madness, remembering the fallen, and more

Bookmarks: DFW, BHL, and a librarian in NYC

Man Booker also-ran Sebastian Barry “entitled to be disappointed” … says Booker juror

Nobel jury head slams U.S. authors

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