Perhaps in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of blogging, Guy Gavriel Kay has a piece in this past weekend's Globe and Mail Books section about the perils facing authors in the digital age. Gavriel Kay ... Read More »
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The Hollywood Reporter has announced the 13 projects chosen for the Sundance Film Festival's highly competitive January Screenwriters Lab, and among the lucky winners is Vancouver author Ryan Knighton. Knighton has fashioned his 2006 memoir ... Read More »
December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
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
Dan Blacharski, a columnist for ITworld.com, has weighed in on the Microsoft vs. Google book search debate, pointing out that while it is fashionable to bash Microsoft as a corporate bully, the Microsoft Live Book ... Read More »
March 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion
In a special report, The Guardian takes a look at authors' writing rooms. The article includes photos of the rooms (which don't look like the authors prepared them to be photographed). The accompanying text is ... Read More »
February 13, 2007 | Filed under: Authors
Elvis Costello once said his work was mainly driven by "guilt and revenge." That apparently goes for Michael Crichton, too, if you replace "guilt" with "environmental catastrophe denial." As The New York Times reports, Crichton ... Read More »
December 14, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Please note, that's on Jeopardy! not in jeopardy. (Newfoundland author Michael Winter's recent fall into an incinerator is enough death-defying danger for one week's headlines.) YA author Gillian Chan's appearance on the popular game show ... Read More »
October 27, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
The most talked-about book launch of the season has apparently left a rather sour taste in the mouth of Craig Davidson. The Penguin Canada author, you'll remember, stepped into the boxing ring early this month, ... Read More »
October 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
William Morrow announced this week that a book that it had been keeping under wraps is The Way We Were, the second book about Diana, Princess of Wales, by her former butler Paul Burrell. His ... Read More »
September 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
Yahoo! News is carrying a Reuters story today reporting that Günter Grass is getting a pat on the back from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem for his decision "to waive restrictions on his Nazi ... Read More »
August 29, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
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