by Nathan Whitlock

A sad day in Gotham

A bit of New York literary history ended yesterday, the New York Times reports, as the inventory of Gotham Book Mart in midtown Manhattan was sold off to the highest bidder. The bookstore had served ... Read More »

May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Plan to honour Silent Spring author blocked in U.S. senate

By Nathan Whitlock

Raw Story reports that two bills are in the works in the U.S. to honour Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring – one to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth and one to name ... Read More »

May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

James Patterson to close Toronto readers' festival

By Nathan Whitlock

BOOKED!, the readers' festival created to accompany BookExpo Canada, has confirmed (as previously reported by Q&Q Omni) that bestselling thriller author James Patterson will be the star of a finale event to close the festival ... Read More »

May 16, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Telling the Canada Council where to go … next

By Nathan Whitlock

Turning 50 is often the catalyst for reflection, re-examination, and the occasional mid-life crisis. Quillblog hopes the Canada Council for the Arts is nowhere near its mid-life point, but in its 50th anniversary year, the ... Read More »

May 16, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Reviewers as endangered polliwogs

By Nathan Whitlock

David Kipen, a former book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has joined the battle to save newspaper book review sections from cutbacks and possible extinction with an essay on Salon.com. Kipen argues that the ... Read More »

May 9, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Too many books?

By Nathan Whitlock

Design Observer has an interesting essay by Alice Twemlow of the School of Visual Arts in New York contemplating the sheer abundance of books now being produced. According to the Mexican critic Gabriel Zaid, writing ... Read More »

May 9, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Garden labyrinth to honour Carol Shields

By Nathan Whitlock

CBC.ca reports that Carol Shields’ family and friends gathered in a Winnipeg park on Monday for an official sod-turning ceremony, kicking off the creation of a garden labyrinth in the author’s honour. When it is ... Read More »

May 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

McQuaig takes Ignatieff and others to task

By Nathan Whitlock

The Tyee has posted excerpts from an interview with author and journalist Linda McQuaig, whose new book, Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire, has recently hit the shelves. Charles Demers introduces the ... Read More »

May 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Atwood vs. Harper

By Nathan Whitlock

Margaret Atwood says the Harper Tories are out to "squash the arts into the dust," CBC reports. "They basically just hate us," she says in an interview with CBC Radio. Criticizing the government’s cuts to ... Read More »

April 25, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Raw Shark in Toronto

By Nathan Whitlock

The New York Times has published an excerpt of British author Steven Hall's debut novel The Raw Shark Texts. Hall was in Toronto yesterday for the launch of the Canadian edition, which has been marketed ... Read More »

April 25, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

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