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 »
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Responding to complaints by a Muslim creationist that its contents were defamatory and blasphemous, a Turkish court has banned Internet users from viewing Richard Dawkins' website. Meanwhile, here in North America, Scholastic has pulled all ... Read More »
September 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Some book-related links: Winnipeg women's group sends more than 5,000 books to Nunavut (Winnipeg Free Press) Is sci-fi too nostalgic? (i09.com) Robotic librarian wreaks havoc dispenses books in rural California (The Sacramento Bee) Library patron ... Read More »
August 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
The winner of the 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the worst opening line of an imaginary novel was announced last week (the winner wrote something about passion in a New York City taxi). However, ... Read More »
Some book-related links: Q&Q contributor Steven W. Beattie and author/bookseller Matt Sturrock have it out over Martin Amis's new book (That Shakespeherian Rag) Christopher Shulgan stalks Don McKellar (Shulgan) Kiwi men offered free beer to ... Read More »
August 1, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
Some book-related links: A true memoir about a fraudulent life (The New York Times) Alberta libraries push for cash (Calgary Herald) Past editors of the Los Angeles Times Book Review protest folding (Editor & Publisher) ... Read More »
July 24, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries
Today, Guardian blogger Nicholas Clee muses on the implications of selling the Harry Potter series at bargain basement prices. This is in light of British supermarket chain Asda's decision to sell Harry Potter and the ... Read More »
July 22, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
Some book-related links: Indiana bookstore won't have to register to sell dirty books (Courier-Journal) Speaking of which, shy and retiring Gene Simmons to launch new book on prostitution (Blabbermouth.net) New Halifax library should go big ... Read More »
July 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
Some book-related links: Maine owner of POD company sues Amazon (Bangor News) Writers and booze “ like peanut butter and jam? (Amherst Bulletin) Library employee accused of embezzling (Chicago Tribune) Methodist ministers attempt to block ... Read More »
May 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries
Some book-related links: Did a Slate critic help save Nabokov's last novel from the flames? (Slate) Ontario senator helps save Joy Kogawa's childhood home (CBC.ca) Duddy Kravitz: The Musical was doomed from the start “ ... Read More »
April 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
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