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Canadian authors' playlists

Speaking of books and music, another Canadian author has provided a playlist for the American music blog Largehearted Boy. That blog's "Book Notes" feature invites authors to list songs that were meaningful during the writing ... Read More »

June 28, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The not-so-great rock and roll novel

By Leigh Anne Williams

Fiction about rock music is an ever-reliable subject for bookchat (see past Quillblog entries such as this one). Latest up is Tom Cox in The Times, who wonders why rock never seems to translate well ... Read More »

June 28, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Harrison and Ondaatje hit Hamilton

By Q&Q Staff

Booksellers Richard Bachmann and Bryan Prince hosted an event in Hamilton on June 25 featuring CanLit star Michael Ondaatje and American author Jim Harrison. Each of them read from their latest books (Divisadero and Return ... Read More »

June 27, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Brown's Diana book slammed as "over-blown and over-hyped"

By Nathan Whitlock

The Guardian is running an abridged version of a review by Sarah Bradford of Tina Brown's Diana Chronicles, a piece that was originally written for The Spectator but rejected for unspecified reasons. Bradford wrote her ... Read More »

June 27, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

Court rules that authorial persona was fraud

By Nathan Whitlock

A jury has decided that author Laura Albert's use of the alter ego/pseudonym JT LeRoy constitutes fraud, The New York Times reports. Albert published her novel Sarah in 2000 under the assumed name of JT ... Read More »

June 27, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Waterstone's display fees revealed!

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sometimes it's fun to be reminded that what's considered business as usual within the book industry is shocking and distasteful to civilians hearing about it for the first time. In the U.K., the Times Online ... Read More »

June 20, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Amis and the Americans

By Leigh Anne Williams

Why isn't Kingsley Amis better known in the U.S.? Critic Michael Dirda asks that question in an essay for The Chronicle of Higher Education. After briefly outlining Amis's career, and his strengths and peccadilloes as ... Read More »

June 20, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

New in Q&Q's July/August issue

By Leigh Anne Williams

The July/August 2007 issue of Quill & Quire is out now. It features: a cover profile of author Michael Winter; the Fall Preview, a look at the hottest titles of the upcoming season; a story ... Read More »

June 14, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

IMPAC goes to Norway

By Leigh Anne Williams

Norwegian author Per Petterson has won this year's IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the world's richest book prizes. Petterson won the €100,000 prize for his novel Out Stealing Horses; the book's translator, Anne Born, ... Read More »

June 14, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Authors playing DJ

By Leigh Anne Williams

As mentioned in yesterday's Quillblog, Paper Cuts, the new litblog launched by New York Times Book Review staffer Dwight Garner, has kicked off a regular feature in which authors are asked to come up with ... Read More »

June 14, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

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Canadian authors' playlists

The not-so-great rock and roll novel

Harrison and Ondaatje hit Hamilton

Brown's Diana book slammed as "over-blown and over-hyped"

Court rules that authorial persona was fraud

Waterstone's display fees revealed!

Amis and the Americans

New in Q&Q's July/August issue

IMPAC goes to Norway

Authors playing DJ

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