The 13 longlisted titles for this year's Man Booker Prize were announced today: The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt Summertime by J.M. Coetzee The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds How to Paint a Dead Man ... Read More »
Author and Q&Q contibutor Shaun Smith points out what he's calling a "very Canadian problem" with a new cookbook coming from Phaidon Press this fall. Called COCO, the book will feature recipes from 100 emerging ... Read More »
July 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
While it may be standard practice to see book covers with blurbs that read "In the tradition of [insert best-selling author's name here]," the Internet is abuzz today about one of the most blatant abuses ... Read More »
July 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Alberta writer and environmentalist Andrew Nikiforuk has been awarded the 8th annual Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the U.S.-based Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ). Nikiforuk, who was honoured for his book Tar Sands: Dirty ... Read More »
Canadian authors Margaret Atwood and Anne Michaels, along with Britain's Monica Ali and Ireland's Joseph O'Neill, have contributed their thoughts on the idea of a national literature to The Atlantic's Fiction 2009 special issue, created ... Read More »
July 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
U.S. mega-chain Barnes & Noble announced in a press release yesterday the creation of the world's biggest e-book store comprising "more than 700,000 titles, including hundreds of new releases and bestsellers at only $9.99." Unlike ... Read More »
July 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
The Independent in the U.K. is reporting that Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt may be near death. It was publicly announced in May that McCourt, who turns 79 next month, had been battling melanoma and ... Read More »
July 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Australia's Productivity Commission has recommended to the federal government that it lift all restrictions on parallel importation of books, according to an article in The Sydney Morning Herald. Quillblog linked to this story back in ... Read More »
July 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
With the latest film adaptation of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, set to hit theatres at midnight tonight, a review in L'Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, has given the ... Read More »
July 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
After almost three years, Julie Wilson, creator of the blog Seen Reading, has decided to end the popular literary voyeur project. For those unfamiliar with Seen Reading, Wilson spots people reading in public, notes the ... Read More »
July 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
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