by Suzanne Gardner

Ruth Padel resigns, but the “gender war” rages on

Book blogs all across the interwebs are abuzz with news of Ruth Padel's resignation from the post of Oxford professor of poetry only nine days after she was elected. Her resignation came yesterday after claims ... Read More »

May 26, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Fearing the death of print? Dave Eggers will cheer you up!

By Suzanne Gardner

If you're in the publishing industry, surely you've had nightmares about the death of print. Dave Eggers, author and editor of McSweeney's, wants to calm your troubled mind and has promised to do so by ... Read More »

May 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Books and buildings

By Suzanne Gardner

The City of Toronto's Lit City initiative comes to a close this weekend, culminating with the 10th annual Doors Open Toronto city-wide open house, featuring close to 175 sites of architectural, historical, cultural, or social ... Read More »

May 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Can a commercial printer invoke religion in order to refuse services?

By Suzanne Gardner

A blog post on Torontoist yesterday looked at Toronto printer Harmony Printing, and its refusal to produce author Adam Bourret's autobiographical graphic novel I'm Crazy, a story that deals with "histories, secrets, obsessive compulsive disorder, ... Read More »

May 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Deals

Print-on-demand titles outnumbered traditional books in 2008

By Suzanne Gardner

Publishers Weekly is reporting that U.S. book production both rose and fell in 2008, according to statistics just released from Bowker's Books in Print database. While the number of new and revised titles released by ... Read More »

May 19, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Oddest book titles, evocriticism, and more

By Suzanne Gardner

A few links from around the Web to ease you back into work after the long weekend: As Britain's Diagram Prize launches its search for the oddest book title of the last 30 years, the ... Read More »

May 19, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Event photos: Attack of the Winnipeg Hockey Moms

By Suzanne Gardner

Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin launched his new book, My Winnipeg (Coach House Books), as part of Pages' This Is Not A Reading Series this past Tuesday at an event called Attack of the Winnipeg Hockey ... Read More »

May 14, 2009 | Filed under: Events

And you thought you’d heard the last from Holden Caulfield…

By Suzanne Gardner

Sequels are always difficult to pull off. Everyone pits your new effort against your old one, and rarely will your latest come out ahead (The Empire Strikes Back excluded). It's even harder to succeed when ... Read More »

May 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Author tweets his way back into the limelight

By Suzanne Gardner

Author and former New Yorker staff writer Dan Baum is attracting attention with an essay about his tenure at the prestigious magazine in that he's posting on Twitter. Baum began his story this past Friday ... Read More »

May 11, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Widget allows book clubs to occur anywhere on the Web

By Suzanne Gardner

The Book Oven blog has brought to our attention a unique social networking site called BookGlutton that seeks to provide users with a new way to read online. According to the website, the application allows ... Read More »

May 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Ruth Padel resigns, but the “gender war” rages on

Fearing the death of print? Dave Eggers will cheer you up!

Books and buildings

Can a commercial printer invoke religion in order to refuse services?

Print-on-demand titles outnumbered traditional books in 2008

Bookmarks: Oddest book titles, evocriticism, and more

Event photos: Attack of the Winnipeg Hockey Moms

And you thought you’d heard the last from Holden Caulfield…

Author tweets his way back into the limelight

Widget allows book clubs to occur anywhere on the Web

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