by Leigh Anne Williams

IMPAC goes to Norway

Norwegian author Per Petterson has won this year's IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the world's richest book prizes. Petterson won the €100,000 prize for his novel Out Stealing Horses; the book's translator, Anne Born, ... Read More »

June 14, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Authors playing DJ

By Leigh Anne Williams

As mentioned in yesterday's Quillblog, Paper Cuts, the new litblog launched by New York Times Book Review staffer Dwight Garner, has kicked off a regular feature in which authors are asked to come up with ... Read More »

June 14, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Eckler vs. Hollywood

By Leigh Anne Williams

The hit Hollywood comedy Knocked Up opened this past weekend to rave reviews and big box office. The movie is about a couple dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, and whatever the film's strengths, no one ... Read More »

June 4, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Show fever becomes Web fever

By Leigh Anne Williams

As BookExpo America kicks off in New York City, the L.A. Times has a brief writeup on the U.S.'s annual convention and trade show. And it seems that publishers are going in with Web 2.0 ... Read More »

May 31, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Robertson Davies gets own park

By Leigh Anne Williams

CanLit superstar Robertson Davies, who died in 1995, had a Toronto park officially named after him this week, The Globe and Mail reports. Robertson Davies Park is located on Avenue Road, not far from the ... Read More »

May 31, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Sex etiquette for publishers

By Leigh Anne Williams

Author David Eddie, who wrote an advice column for the now-defunct Toro magazine, is doing something similar for The Globe and Mail's ... Read More »

May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Cover to Cover online: John Metcalf edition

By Leigh Anne Williams

Talk about reader interactivity. Biblioasis will publish John Metcalf's latest memoir, Shut Up He Explained, this fall. And a reader of the Windsor publisher's blog has designed the book's cover. It all began when Biblioasis ... Read More »

May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Bringing Popeye back

By Leigh Anne Williams

Comic-book publishers have always been archivally minded, but they're getting more and more so lately. Capitalizing on the buzz around graphic novels and cartooning, some houses are putting together lovingly packaged multi-volume collections of yesteryear's ... Read More »

May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Zach Wells and others take on Survival

By Leigh Anne Williams

Two years ago in Vancouver, five Canadian poets got together for a panel discussion on the state of the art, and tried to hash out whether Margaret Atwood's seminal CanLit study Survival has energized or ... Read More »

May 17, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Keep on working (and writing)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The publication of a couple of office-set novels, Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End and Jenny Turner's The Brainstorm, has writer DJ Taylor wondering (in The Independent) why there aren't more novels about ... Read More »

May 10, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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