by Leigh Anne Williams

Tattoo you

There's been more ink spilled in the mainstream press on Doug Pepper's plans to reshape McClelland & Stewart since taking over as president earlier this year. Judy Stoffman writes in the Toronto Star that Pepper ... Read More »

September 7, 2004 | Filed under: Events

We all begin in a little magazine

By Leigh Anne Williams

Traditionally, literary journals have been the place where young fiction writers hone their chops, and with the decline of the first-novel market, especially in Canada, the litmags' importance may rise again. Sven Birkets writes about ... Read More »

August 30, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Non-fiction and fiction, back to your corners

By Leigh Anne Williams

The decline of the fiction market continues to be felt internationally -- at least, according to author Philip Hensher, who writes in The Observer about British publishing's increasing emphasis on non-fiction. To support this claim, ... Read More »

August 30, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

From blurbese to reviewerese and back again

By Leigh Anne Williams

The book world has a language all of its own, writes Tom Payne in this very amusing Telegraph piece about the words and phrases unique to that language. Payne even compiles a long list of ... Read More »

August 23, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The trouble with kids' books

By Leigh Anne Williams

Is there an adult conspiracy to jolt kids from their peaceful childhoods by foisting depressing books on them? Laura Miller suggests there is in this New York Times piece, which decries the rise of afterschool ... Read More »

August 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

The school of rocklit

By Leigh Anne Williams

It may be true, as Michael Hearst claims, that "all writers want to be rock stars." But do they truly have rock within them? That's one question posed by this Carl Wilson feature in the ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

On reading Dick

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a piece for the Maisonneuve website, Toronto novelist Michel Basilières considers the legacy of science fiction legend Philip K. Dick. For mainstream audiences, Dick is best known as the writer whose work inspired films ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The perils of writing about writers, part 2: when relatives attack

By Leigh Anne Williams

Bel Canto author Ann Patchett has recently published Truth & Beauty, a non-fiction book about her friendship with poet and memoirist Lucy Grealy, who died of a heroin overdose in 2002. Now Grealy's sister is ... Read More »

August 12, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Young man Winter and his travels

By Leigh Anne Williams

At a BookExpo America panel discussion last June, Publishers Lunch proprietor Michael Cader wondered aloud why publishers don't set all of their authors up with in-house blogs. Now a Canadian house has taken at least ... Read More »

August 12, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The perils of writing about writers

By Leigh Anne Williams

For many readers, the value of an "authorized biography" is dubious. The suspicion is that the work will be a servile and selective record of the subject's life, minus even the bonus of close access ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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