by Alison Potstra

Barnes & Noble e-books are coming to town

B&N announced yesterday that beginning around Dec. 1, Canadian customers will have access to the U.S. retailer's e-book store and will be able to download titles to their iPhones, BlackBerrys, etc. However, B&N's own e-reader, ... Read More »

November 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

When life imitates art

By Alison Potstra

Alice Munro's short story, "Dimensions," which appears in her recent collection Too Much Happiness, is one that the author herself cannot reread. In the story, a blue-collar B.C. father suffocates his three young children with a pillow ... Read More »

November 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Suing the Nook, profitable poetry, and more

By Alison Potstra

Bookish links from around the Web: According to Amazon, Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin is the best book of 2009. Also on its list of the top 10 books of 2009: Strength in ... Read More »

November 3, 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

Michael Turner massages the medium

By Alison Potstra

In an interview this morning with Brian Joseph Davis at The Globe and Mail's In Other Words blog, innovative author Michael Turner offers a fresh, if not slightly perplexing, perspective on a writer's relationship with ... Read More »

October 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Generic Wizard Nights, a feline Humbert Humbert, and more

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: The Ontario Library Association has announced the nominees for the 2010 Forest of Reading Program. Votes can be cast for your favourite authors at the OLA's website. Participants have ... Read More »

October 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

IFOA news: Geoffrey Taylor to receive honorary degree, Urquhart to read Munro

By Alison Potstra

Geoffrey Taylor, director of Harbourfront's Reading Series, is to receive an honorary degree from the School of Creative & Performing Arts at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. Taylor, who has been with ... Read More »

October 27, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Events

“High in antioxidants, low on caffeine”: Leah McLaren weighs in on CanLit

By Alison Potstra

Globe and Mail columnist Leah McLaren is the latest public figure to opine on the state of Can Lit. Prompted by this year's awards season, McLaren takes the discussion one step further (or, perhaps backward) by ... Read More »

October 27, 2009 | Filed under: Awards, Libraries

Toronto Public Library Workers Union given legal strike deadline

By Alison Potstra

After nearly two weeks of silence surrounding negotiations between the Toronto Public Library and the Toronto Public Library Workers Union (TPLWU), it was announced today that the Ontario Ministry of Labour has granted the TPLWU ... Read More »

October 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Libraries

Bookmarks: The Tao of Wu, zombie hunter S. Thompson, and St. Anne of Green Gables

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: Following in the footsteps of Kanye West and 50 Cent, NPR reports that The Wu-Tang Clan's Robert F. Diggs (aka The RZA) is the latest rap artist to pen ... Read More »

October 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Barnes & Noble e-books are coming to town

When life imitates art

Yann Martel’s “shocking” new novel

Michael Turner massages the medium

Bookmarks: Generic Wizard Nights, a feline Humbert Humbert, and more

IFOA news: Geoffrey Taylor to receive honorary degree, Urquhart to read Munro

“High in antioxidants, low on caffeine”: Leah McLaren weighs in on CanLit

Toronto Public Library Workers Union given legal strike deadline

Bookmarks: The Tao of Wu, zombie hunter S. Thompson, and St. Anne of Green Gables

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