by Sara Forsyth

Danish publisher wants controversial U.S. novel

Earlier this month, Random House U.S. decided to pull Sherry Jones's novel The Jewel of Medina, for fear its content (about the child bride of the prophet Mohammed) would "incite acts of violence by a ... Read More »

August 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Vote for your favourite East Coast author

By Sara Forsyth

Colleagues (and buddies) Stephen Clare and Trevor Adams of Halifax Magazine are looking to find the top 100 Atlantic Canadian books ever written. They plan to compile their findings in a book called Spindrift, but ... Read More »

August 26, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Rycroft in her own words

By Sara Forsyth

As Quillblog recently reported, Nicole Rycroft, the executive director of Markets Initiative, took part in a pro-Tibetan demonstration late last week wherein she and four others spread a banner that read "Free Tibet" over an ... Read More »

August 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Lytton’s had enough!

By Sara Forsyth

The winner of the 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the worst opening line of an imaginary novel was announced last week (the winner wrote something about passion in a New York City taxi). However, ... Read More »

August 19, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

Twelve must-haves for booksellers

By Sara Forsyth

Market research firm Nielsen just released a list of the top 12 books that booksellers "cannot afford not to stock." The U.K.'s Telegraph notes that the works of Jane Austen, The Lord of the Rings ... Read More »

August 12, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

The author and the book designer “ BFF?

By Sara Forsyth

New York Times columnist Steven Heller recently profiled three author/designer teams who've had the rare opportunity to work with each other for over a decade. Heller's examples of "enduring chemistry" are Philip Roth and Milton ... Read More »

August 12, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid: smart dumplings

By Sara Forsyth

Those pesky Olympics begin tomorrow, and Slate has reviewed a plethora of books about China in the spirit of the games (though many of them are about Mao), including Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and ... Read More »

August 7, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Lessons from Jeff Bezos

By Sara Forsyth

The McSweeney's blog recently posted a "short imagined monologue" from the mind of Jeff Bezos (as imagined by contributor Evan Johnston). We meet Bezos in the waiting room at his doctor's office, where he's waiting ... Read More »

August 6, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Rare book thieves in India

By Sara Forsyth

The National Library of India has created a five-person committee to investigate charges that rare books and manuscripts are missing from their collection. The Hindu, India's national newspaper, reports that the Ministry of Cultural Affairs ... Read More »

August 6, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Begging for blurbs

By Sara Forsyth

Vogue contributing editor Rebecca Johnson chronicles the agony of seeking out "blurbs" for her first novel, And Sometimes Why, on Salon.com. Johnson, obviously a well-connected woman, falls short when her editor presses her to find ... Read More »

August 5, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

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