by Leigh Anne Williams

The Thatcher years: the golden age of publishing

In The Observer, literary editor Robert McCrum turns in a long reminiscence of the publishing biz in Britain in the 1980s. In 1979, when McCrum begins his career, "there is virtually no money, especially for ... Read More »

May 31, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

It's Griffin week in the media

By Leigh Anne Williams

Griffin glory is the subject of media coverage this week, with the winners of the annual poetry prize set to be named on Thursday.Globe and Mail reporter Rebecca Caldwell interviewed this year's jury on the ... Read More »

May 31, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Remembering Roger Straus

By Leigh Anne Williams

Legendary American publisher Roger Straus died this week at the age of 87. The New York Times has a thorough recap of his career as co-founder of the influential house Farrar, Straus & Giroux, which ... Read More »

May 27, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Three cheers for McSweeney's

By Leigh Anne Williams

Andy Lamey, the onetime books editor of The National Post, writes about the wonderful world of Dave Eggers' McSweeney's in the Post's most recent books section. The rah-rah piece is most useful to readers who ... Read More »

May 25, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Dershowitz gets a do-over

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a move that some will applaud and some will see as chilling, Publishers Weekly has commissioned a second review of Alan Dershowitz's new book, after the author complained in an e-mail that the first ... Read More »

May 25, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Combatting declining unit sales with higher prices?

By Leigh Anne Williams

The used-book trade draws much of the blame for declining book sales, which were highlighted in a Book Industry Study Group report released last week. According to the report, sales of new American books came ... Read More »

May 17, 2004 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Singing the praises of The Pornographer's Poem

By Leigh Anne Williams

It didn't exactly set Canada on fire back in 1999, but Michael Turner's novel The Pornographer's Poem is getting a new lease on life in the U.S. The book was originally published by Doubleday Canada; ... Read More »

May 17, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Sweeping up broken Glass

By Leigh Anne Williams

Aida Edemariam was a fact-checker at Harper's magazine in the spring of 1998 when it came out that journalist Stephen Glass had a habit of making up his stories. Glass worked at The New Republic, ... Read More »

May 13, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Funnyman speaks

By Leigh Anne Williams

Poet Stuart Ross is interviewed on the online litmag The Danforth Review. Ross, who published Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected last year, talks about selling leaflets and chapbooks on the streets of Toronto, ... Read More »

May 10, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Responsible fiction

By Leigh Anne Williams

Annabel Lyon, author of the short-story collection Oxygen and the new three-novella collection The Best Thing for You, ponders the relationship between literature and ethics in a recent column for Geist magazine. On one side ... Read More »

May 10, 2004 | Filed under: Events

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