by Nathan Whitlock

Anne Giardini is the boss

Though novelists who are also doctors (Chekhov, Maugham, Vincent Lam) get the most attention, there have been a few creative writers who have occupied lofty positions in the business world, too. Criminally underrated novelist Henry ... Read More »

May 20, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

The gospel according to Dan Brown

By Nathan Whitlock

New York Times columnist Ross Douhat (who does not look at all like David Brent ... well, maybe just a little) believes that Dan Brown's novels are successful not just because the books are cheesy ... Read More »

May 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book culture, Opinion

You betcha: Sarah Palin to pen memoir

By Nathan Whitlock

Late-night comedy writers must be ecstatic over the news that Alaska governor and former vice-presidential no-hopeful Sarah Palin has signed with HarperCollins U.S. to write a memoir. The size of the advance “ really, is there ... Read More »

May 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Tom Tomorrow and The Very Silly Mayor

By Nathan Whitlock

Political cartoonist and blogger Tom Tomorrow (né Dan Perkins) has decided to branch out into kidlit with a picture book entitled The Very Silly Mayor, due out in September. On his site, This Modern World, ... Read More »

May 13, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

The next of Kindle

By Nathan Whitlock

After much fevered expectation on the part of tech-heads, nerds, and people with money to burn, the new Star Trek movie big-ass version of the Kindle has finally arrived. From the Financial Times: Amazon, the ... Read More »

May 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Robert J. Sawyer launches Wake, signs a leg

By Nathan Whitlock

Last week, Robert J. Sawyer “ a.k.a. the Canadian author most likely to have his brain kept alive in a jar for centuries to come (Christian BÃ¶k being a close second) “ launched his newest ... Read More »

May 6, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Peter C. Newman does Ignatieff

By Nathan Whitlock

Peter C. Newman, known for chronicling the lives of Canada's biggest, richest, and vainest, has been tapped by Random House Canada to write a biography of Michael Ignatieff, the noted author and academic recently coronated ... Read More »

May 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bush talks up memoir in Calgary

By Nathan Whitlock

If former President Bush's verbal gaffes were gettin' old last year, they must be pretty much fossilized by now. (Woe be to any publisher with a title like Putting Food On Your Family: The Accidental ... Read More »

March 18, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Event photos: Stripmalling, Old City Hall, and Bradley McGogg

By Nathan Whitlock

Some recent book-world doings, captured photographically: Jon Paul Fiorentino (above, signing book in natty black hat) launched his illustrated novel Stripmalling (ECW Press) at a This is Not a Reading Series event at Toronto's Gladstone ... Read More »

March 9, 2009 | Filed under: Events

Atwood goes to Scotland “ and you can, too!

By Nathan Whitlock

Adventure Canada is currently offering a week-long cruise of the Scottish Isles in the company of Margaret Atwood and her husband, Graeme Gibson. There is no information given on Adventure Canada's website as to what ... Read More »

March 9, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

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