A few years ago, a book with my name on it took a beating from a reviewer, and it made me furious. Not the review; you live with that. The name on the book. For ... Read More »
October 29, 2003
Last November, the chair of the Texas Board of Education proposed to spend the state’s annual textbook budget on the purchase of laptop computers. Texas spends about $5-million (U.S.) on textbooks each year, and like ... Read More »
October 29, 2003
If you thought pulp fiction romance was built on generic formulas, you’re right. But even formulas evolve. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Harlequin’s The Art of Romance, a postcard booklet featuring 30 romance covers from ... Read More »
October 29, 2003
Toronto’s upscale, uptown, five-star North 44 restaurant was the venue for a lavish dinner held in honour of The Second Fiddle author Yves Beauchemin and translator David Homel, jetted in from Montreal for the occasion. ... Read More »
October 29, 2003
An underdeveloped critiqueThe most dangerous reviewers are those with an agenda. And I haven’t run into a more classic case than the review by Carol Berger of Linda Spalding’s The Follow (Apr. 1998), in which ... Read More »
October 29, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
• ER heartthrob George Clooney teams up with Danny DeVito and Jennifer Lopez for Out of Sight, based on Elmore Leonard’s book of the same name, this July. Bantam Doubleday Dell releases its tie-in on ... Read More »
October 29, 2003
• Jack McClelland’s agent, Beverley Slopen, recently sent out copies of Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland to 30 of Canada’s young upwardly mobile publishing professionals, in the hope his book will ... Read More »
October 29, 2003
In preparation for its recent Summit on Reading and Books, Quebec’s provincial government released Le temps de lire, un art de vivre: Etat de situation de la lecture et du livre au Quebec (The Time ... Read More »
October 29, 2003
Among the findings of the Canadian Publishers’ Council’s 1997 survey of book buyers:• 40% of all purchases were fiction, 10% children’s, and 50% non-fiction.• 27% of all purchases were defined as “popular fiction,” of which ... Read More »
October 29, 2003
When Ramesh Lalwani sold the retail half of Laurier Books, the small bookstore that he and his wife Marthe operated in downtown Ottawa from 1975 to 1991, he stocked close to 50 language dictionaries, from ... Read More »
October 29, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
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