by Nathan Whitlock

About those fairy tales…

Will Davis writes in The Guardian's book blog about the latest round of controversy over the appearance of gay characters in children's lit in Britain. Davis was not surprised to hear of condemnations from Christian ... Read More »

March 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Children's publishing, Industry news, Opinion

Etiquette advice for Google Book Search

By Nathan Whitlock

Dan Blacharski, a columnist for ITworld.com, has weighed in on the Microsoft vs. Google book search debate, pointing out that while it is fashionable to bash Microsoft as a corporate bully, the Microsoft Live Book ... Read More »

March 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

Information management

By Nathan Whitlock

Though there is hardly a lack of books about what's gone wrong with the Bush administration and its invasion of Iraq, access to information about the president became much more difficult for authors and historians ... Read More »

March 9, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

The text, the whole text, and nothing but the text?

By Nathan Whitlock

Readers who have, in the course of literature studies or even inadvertently in a conversation over too much coffee or red wine in a café, stumbled into the thorny question of "literary criticism – what ... Read More »

March 9, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Jane Austen more popular than Jesus in Britain

By Nathan Whitlock

The BBC reports that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice topped a survey of more than 2,000 British book lovers as the book they just couldn't live without, besting The Bible, which was sixth from the ... Read More »

March 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Black's legal and linguistic battles

By Nathan Whitlock

Conrad Black has followed through on a promise to file "the mother of all libel statements of claim" against Tom Bower, author of Conrad & Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge, The Globe and Mail ... Read More »

February 23, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Event photos: The Book Lover's Ball

By Nathan Whitlock

CanLiterati and friends came to the Book Lover's Ball in black-tie elegance or costumes inspired by their favorite books on Feb. 15. ... Read More »

February 20, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Battling bureaucracy

By Nathan Whitlock

The New York Times has more details of the recently discovered letters from Anne Frank's father, Otto, written as he desperately tried to find a way to get his family out of Amsterdam and into ... Read More »

February 16, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

What I meant to say…

By Nathan Whitlock

Richard Warnica has posted an interview with author Edeet Ravel on The Tyee site discussing her reasons for significantly rewriting her second novel, Look for Me, after it was published. Ravel initially posted her revised ... Read More »

February 16, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

What’s Left?

By Nathan Whitlock

Terry Glavin has written a feature on Nick Cohen, “one of Britain’s most consistently caustic and passionate left-wing writers,” on The Tyee observing that Cohen’s new book, What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way, points ... Read More »

February 9, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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