by Steven W. Beattie

Dionne Brand to unveil 1,000 square foot mural dedicated to human rights

Following closely upon the Poetry is Public is Poetry initiative that debuted in Toronto at the end of August, the city's poet laureate is set to unveil another piece of urban poetry, this time in ... Read More »

September 30, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Wheaton and Scalzi battle lupus and each other

By Steven W. Beattie

John Scalzi is an American science-fiction writer whose books have twice been nominated for the Hugo Award. He currently serves as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Wil Wheaton is best ... Read More »

September 20, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Burroughs gets graphic

By Steven W. Beattie

Junkie, beat novelist, counterculture icon, occasional lyricist for Tom Waits and Warren Zevon. Now William S. Burroughs gets another posthumous line on his resumé: graphic novelist. According to the Guardian, U.S.-based Fantagraphics Books is set ... Read More »

September 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

The year of the feud

By Steven W. Beattie

Yesterday, Quillblog pointed to the controversy sparked by Margaret Atwood when she added her name to a petition protesting the potential appearance of a right-wing news channel (sarcastically dubbed "Fox News North") here in Canada. ... Read More »

September 3, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

U.K. authors petition to keep Public Lending Right intact

By Steven W. Beattie

Authors in the U.K. are upset that the government may make cuts to the national Public Lending Right, which provides authors with a payment of six pence each time one of their books is checked ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

New Toronto project injects poetry into public spaces

By Steven W. Beattie

Dionne Brand, Toronto's poet laureate, has launched a new project in cooperation with the City of Toronto and the Toronto Public Library aimed at bringing poetry into the public sphere. The endeavour, called Poetry is ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

The gender(ed) politics of literary stardom

By Steven W. Beattie

It's the beginning of book award season, and everyone knows what that means: debates about gender politics. An article by Vit Wagner in Saturday's Toronto Star mused about whether women would dominate this season's Canadian ... Read More »

August 23, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Tony Blair to donate proceeds from memoir to charity

By Steven W. Beattie

This may be as close as we ever come to getting an admission that joining the war in Iraq was a mistake from one of its prime instigators. The Globe and Mail is reporting that ... Read More »

August 16, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Christos Tsiolkas dumps on “dry … shitey” European literature

By Steven W. Beattie

Sticking pins in the balloons of established literary reputations seems to have become de rigueur in recent weeks. First there was Gabriel Josipivici complaining that stalwarts of English literature “ including Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, ... Read More »

August 16, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Anis Shivani does the B.R. Myers two-step

By Steven W. Beattie

Has it been 10 years already? In the July/August 2001 issue of The Atlantic, B.R. Myers published a now-infamous essay titled "A Reader's Manifesto," in which he complained about the tyranny of pretentiousness that dominated ... Read More »

August 9, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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Dionne Brand to unveil 1,000 square foot mural dedicated to human rights

Wheaton and Scalzi battle lupus and each other

Burroughs gets graphic

The year of the feud

U.K. authors petition to keep Public Lending Right intact

New Toronto project injects poetry into public spaces

The gender(ed) politics of literary stardom

Tony Blair to donate proceeds from memoir to charity

Christos Tsiolkas dumps on “dry … shitey” European literature

Anis Shivani does the B.R. Myers two-step

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