Search Results by tag: Yann Martel

Daily book biz round-up, April 8

News for a quiet Thursday: Tom Clancy's first novel in seven years sounds kinda like The A-Team E-book sales beat audiobook sales in 2009 Simon & Schuster to publish George Carlin's letters in 2011 Yann ... Read More »

April 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Yann Martel takes a break from Stephen Harper book project

By Laura Godfrey

With his next novel coming out in April, Yann Martel has informed Stephen Harper, his unresponsive book club partner, that he will be taking a break from his biweekly book-sharing project. Since 2007, Martel has ... Read More »

March 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Eye Weekly launches new book club

By Steven W. Beattie

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

New Yann Martel novel to drop in April

By Stuart Woods

Yann Martel's highly anticipated follow-up to the Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi will drop in April, well ahead of the original release date in June. According to a press release from Martel's Canadian publisher, ... Read More »

November 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Yann Martel’s “shocking” new novel

By Alison Potstra

Yann Martel's follow-up to Life of Pi, titled Beatrice and Virgil and due in June 2010, is already generating controversy in the U.K., where Martel's publisher, Canongate, has described the novel, an allegory about the ... Read More »

November 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Ang Lee to adapt Life of Pi

By Scott MacDonald

According to The Bookseller, Yann Martel's crazy popular Man Booker-winning Life of Pi is finally going before the cameras, courtesy of Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee. Filmmakers such as M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), ... Read More »

October 29, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

Yann Martel sends Yann Martel to Stephen Harper

By Nathan Whitlock

The first rule one learns in today's publishing climate is that an opportunity to promote one's own book should never, ever be passed up. Crank letter writer Renowned author Yann Martel demonstrates this truth with ... Read More »

October 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Yann Martel in orbit

By Stuart Woods

It's been a good year for Canadian authors when it comes to outer space. This summer, when astronauts Julie Payette and Robert Thirsk visited the International Space Station, they took with them copies of space-themed books ... Read More »

September 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Memo to Yann Martel: Now THAT’s how it’s done

By Steven W. Beattie

Dedicated readers of Quillblog (among others) are no doubt aware of Yann Martel's painfully earnest campaign to get Prime Minister Stephen Harper to inject a little stillness into his life. Every two weeks for the ... Read More »

August 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Frank McCourt, Yann Martel, Tom Wolfe, Harry Potter, and more