A few bookish links from across the Web: Book-loving travellers, breathe a sigh of relief: Transport Canada explains that the whole airplane book ban was just a misunderstanding Hundreds of readers offer words of support ... Read More »
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When Oprah announced last November that she is calling it quits in 2011, publishers blessed by the mojo of the daytime television doyenne's eponymous book club started biting their collective nails, wondering where they would ... Read More »
January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Harlequin Enterprises, best known as a publisher of romance novels in the traditional "dead tree" format, has just launched an online publishing house, Carina Press. According to the Carina home page, the new venture will ... Read More »
November 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Anyone who was champing at the bit for an awards-season showdown between the two reigning CanLit deities “ Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood “ must be feeling a bit disappointed following the news that Munro ... Read More »
August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
An interesting article on Tomorrow Museum has started debate on the reasons behind the popularity of young adult fiction. In the original post, blogger Joanne McNeil argues that YA book sales are skyrocketing because teenagers ... Read More »
June 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
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
It may not be the equivalent of the sans-coulottes rising en masse during the French Revolution or a student facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square, but there appears to be a grassroots uprising of ... Read More »
April 6, 2009 | Filed under: Bookselling
If former President Bush's verbal gaffes were gettin' old last year, they must be pretty much fossilized by now. (Woe be to any publisher with a title like Putting Food On Your Family: The Accidental ... Read More »
March 18, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
The Toronto-based Luminato arts festival has announced its 2009 lineup, and fanboys the city over will be pleased to know that the theme for the literary programming is "fantasy, horror, and Gothic." They'll likely be ... Read More »
March 18, 2009 | Filed under: Events
The winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, which is partially funded by the Booker foundation, has been announced. The majority of titles on the shortlist “ Hunger, The Unfaithful Translator, The American Granddaughter, Time of White Horses, The ... Read More »
March 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
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