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Baio woof!

Scott Baio – who played Chachi on Happy Days, Charles on Charles in Charge, and ... um, that's pretty much it, actually – is currently shopping around a tell-all memoir, BaioWatch: How I Dated and ... Read More »

January 29, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

R U reading this novel?

By Nathan Whitlock

The Globe and Mail ran a story this week on a new novel published in Finland that is entirely composed of cell phone text messages. The Last Messages tells the story of a fictitious executive ... Read More »

January 26, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Please, sir, I want some more Charles Dickens

By Alison Jones

In what seems to be a push to get young readers interested in Charles Dickens (whose birthday is Feb. 7), the BBC website is featuring an interactive game and an animated version of the author's ... Read More »

January 26, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Friday photo: Doull Books

By Nathan Whitlock

This unique bit of book sculpture is one of the attractions of the used bookstore John W. Doull, Bookseller in Halifax, or JWD's, as it is fondly known by Haligonians. Although it may look like ... Read More »

January 26, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling

Message on a napkin

By Leigh Anne Williams

Esquire has commissioned a collection of very short stories – short enough to fit on a cocktail napkin, to be precise. For "The Esquire Napkin Project," the magazine mailed blank napkins to dozens of writers, ... Read More »

January 25, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Bad books for boys

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the Guardian site, Tom Kelly looks at the resurgence of adventure yarns for boys, and he doesn't like what he sees. "It has the hazy glow of nostalgia for a simpler world," he says ... Read More »

January 25, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Family Literacy Day

By Alison Jones

This Saturday, Jan. 27 is Family Literacy Day, a national event created by ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation in 1999 to promote the importance of families reading together. According to the official website, the program celebrates ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

Secrets of the Canadian literary cabal

By Alison Jones

Stephen Henighan, known for his biting, if occasionally conspiracy-minded, commentary on the Canadian literary scene, takes aim at the Scotiabank Giller Prize in this column for Geist. Henighan calls the prize a symptom of the ... Read More »

January 23, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Opinion

O.J.: Passive and aggressive

By Alison Jones

In an article from Vanity Fair, James Wolcott reviews O.J. Simpson’s If I Did It after obtaining a copy that avoided being pulped. Wolcott refers to the “confessional” as “a vanishing act in full view,” ... Read More »

January 23, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

He's back: Stevenson returns to Canada

By Leigh Anne Williams

Larry Stevenson is back in Toronto, and Globe and Mail business reporter Gordon Pitts has a Q&A with the Chapters founder. After losing Chapters to Indigo in a hostile takeover, Stevenson reportedly studied at the ... Read More »

January 22, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

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