March 14, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
National Book Critics' Circle Award announces winners New Yorker donates $6 million to New York Public Library in will Russell Brand to write ... Read More »
Former North Korea dictators revealed as authors of "ultra" violent children's books Fodor'sTravel lists the 20 most beautiful libraries American retailers ... Read More »
March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
Keith Richards collaborating on kids' book with daughter What the speed-reading app says about our reading habits Douglas Coupland's Microserfs is the most popular ebook in New Hampshire Salacious letter from Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich to ... Read More »
March 12, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
George Saunders' Tenth of December takes inaugural U.K. Folio Prize Five new books reflect on the Boston Marathon bombing Nixon campaign journalist Joe McGinniss dies at 71 U.K. study shows class divide affects reading habits The Paris Review features five vignettes from ... Read More »
March 11, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
After winning two major literary prizes in less than a month and seeing Joseph Boyden's The Orenda win CBC's Canada Reads, author Thomas King is calling 2014 "the year of the native." The Inconvenient Indian: ... Read More »
March 10, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
Hunger Games producers sign on for film adaptation of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch Boston's central public library renovating for public space and digital technology Climate fiction or "cli-fi" an emergent genre? Augmented reality redefines books and video games ... Read More »
March 10, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
Harlequin struggles with digital publishing sales Touchstone cancels publication of Goldman Sachs elevator gossip book Joseph Boyden discusses plans for companion novel to The Orenda Let Books Be Books campaign calls publishers on to end gendered packaging ... Read More »
March 7, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
Joseph Boyden's The Orenda takes top spot in Canada Reads 2014 Jonathan Lethem tells NYC mayor to protect city's libraries Marketing company buys books onto bestseller lists Watch: New music video from David O'Meara and ... Read More »
March 6, 2014 | Filed under: Book links
World Read Aloud Day has come to Canada for the first time, by way of the Children's Writers & Illustrators of British Columbia Society. The group has partnered with LitWorld, a New York"“based non-profit literacy ... Read More »
March 5, 2014 | Filed under: Children's publishing
CBC Canada Reads contenders down to Cockroach, The Orenda Local booksellers upset by L.A. Times Festival of Books' partnership with Amazon Anne Rice signs petition protesting "anti-author" Amazon bullies Women writers to watch in 2014 Vasilly Aksyonov's 1979 novel predicted ... Read More »
March 5, 2014 | Filed under: Book links