by Steven W. Beattie

Influential scholar dies just before new Malcolm X bio publishes

Manning Marable, one of the most significant scholars devoted to post-war African-American life, spent 15 years working on an exhaustive biography of the great Civil Rights activist Malcolm X. The result, a 600-page tome called ... Read More »

April 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Judge rejects Google Book Settlement

By Steven W. Beattie

Adding another chapter to the ongoing (not to say epic) saga of Google's attempt to build the world's largest digital library, Judge Denny Chin has rejected the settlement that would have granted the company the ... Read More »

March 22, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

J.D. Salinger slept here

By Steven W. Beattie

The New York Times has an article about a creative writing scholarship given out to students at Ursinus College, just outside of Philadelphia. The school is the alma mater of J.D. Salinger, and the initial ... Read More »

March 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Could the Kindle killer be an actual book?

By Steven W. Beattie

Amazon's Kindle e-reader is touted for its advantages as a reading device: it is lightweight, portable, and employs easy-to-read, low glare e-ink. Almost from its first appearance, critics and competitors have been predicting the advent ... Read More »

March 21, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Stephen King takes on the Kennedy assassination

By Steven W. Beattie

For over 40 years, Stephen King has been chronicling America's fears and collective nightmares. In his new book, he is set to take on one of the most nightmarish incidents in 20th-century American history. According ... Read More »

March 7, 2011 | Filed under: Authors

Free books help spark sales

By Steven W. Beattie

This past Saturday saw the inaugural World Book Night in the U.K., an event that featured 20,000 readers each giving away 48 copies of their favourite book. In total, one million books by authors such ... Read More »

March 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Unpublished Patrick White novel to not be unpublished

By Steven W. Beattie

First a cache of Dashiell Hammett stories is uncovered among the late author's papers in Texas. Then a novel by the late Chilean writer Roberto BolaÃ±o gets serialized in the pages of the Paris Review. ... Read More »

February 28, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Former Palin aide accuses rival author of sabotage, jealousy

By Steven W. Beattie

Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and self-described "Mama grizzly," is at the centre of a dispute between two authors of competing books about her. Frank Bailey, a former Palin aide, is accusing Joe McGinniss, ... Read More »

February 28, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Childrens’ authors lash out at Amis’s “brain injury” remark

By Steven W. Beattie

Last week, the notoriously reticent and withdrawn British author, Martin Amis, appeared on a BBC book program called Faulks on Fiction, during which he mulled the possibility of writing for children: "I say, 'If I ... Read More »

February 14, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Unpublished Roberto BolaÃ±o novel to be serialized

By Steven W. Beattie

It's been a good couple of weeks for posthumous manuscripts seeing publication. Last week, word broke about a magazine editor who had discovered a cache of unpublished Dashiell Hammett stories. This week, there is news ... Read More »

February 14, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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Influential scholar dies just before new Malcolm X bio publishes

Judge rejects Google Book Settlement

J.D. Salinger slept here

Could the Kindle killer be an actual book?

Stephen King takes on the Kennedy assassination

Free books help spark sales

Unpublished Patrick White novel to not be unpublished

Former Palin aide accuses rival author of sabotage, jealousy

Childrens’ authors lash out at Amis’s “brain injury” remark

Unpublished Roberto BolaÃ±o novel to be serialized

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