When Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. died in 2007, American literature lost one of its most idiosyncratic and beloved voices. That voice is now being honoured with a new library in the author's hometown of Indianapolis. The ... Read More »
"This is the light of the mind / Cold and planetary." Those lines, from Sylvia Plath's poem "The Moon and the Yew Tree," testify to the heartbreaking isolation and loneliness the American poet seemed to ... Read More »
November 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Although the book does not land on store shelves until tomorrow, details have already started to leak out about Decision Points, George W. Bush's new memoir, largely as a result of media sources that received ... Read More »
November 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
It will be 50 years ago tomorrow that a British court declared that D.H. Lawrence's previously banned novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, did not constitute obscenity. In Saturday's Globe and Mail, Ian Brown commemorates the anniversary ... Read More »
November 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize“winning author of The God of Small Things, has been in the news recently for her outspoken comments about Kashmiri secession from India. Last week, rumours began circulating that the author ... Read More »
November 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Each year at Harbourfront's International Festival of Authors, the literary festival currently underway (until Saturday) in Toronto, PEN Canada sponsors an empty chair to bring attention to writers around the world who have been imprisoned ... Read More »
October 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Book trailers are becoming more pervasive and sophisticated all the time; they're also becoming more effective as tools for selling books. (HarperCollins's creepy trailer for Emma Donoghue's Room was a hit on the Internet even ... Read More »
October 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
A group of volunteers is currently working to save iconic Canadian poet Al Purdy's A-frame cottage, with the intention of turning it into a home for a writer-in-residence program. In a similar vein, well-known figures ... Read More »
October 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
In news that is likely to send shivers of anticipation up the spines of publishers worldwide, J.K. Rowling has told Oprah Winfrey she would consider another instalment of her mega-selling Harry Potter series. The Sydney ... Read More »
October 4, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Every week, it seems, brings more news about the perils facing the publishing industry: the death of the book, office closures, and mass layoffs. However, according to the Guardian, publishers (from the U.K. at least) ... Read More »
October 4, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
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