by Steven W. Beattie

Gargantuan Stephen King novel emerges after 25-year incubation

It took him 25 years from conception to completion, but Stephen King is finally ready to publish his hulking unwieldy boulder-like epic novel Under the Dome, described as an allegorical tale about a town in ... Read More »

April 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon kindles a price war

By Steven W. Beattie

It may not be the equivalent of the sans-coulottes rising en masse during the French Revolution or a student facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square, but there appears to be a grassroots uprising of ... Read More »

April 6, 2009 | Filed under: Bookselling

Arrr! J.K. Rowling and John Grisham fall victim to pirates

By Steven W. Beattie

Two of the planet's bestselling authors, J.K. "I'll kick Stephenie Meyer's ass" Rowling and John Grisham, are among several authors whose books have apparently been illegally uploaded to a San Francisco-based website that promotes itself ... Read More »

March 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Jacob McArthur Mooney wins Harbourfront’s Poetry Idol

By Steven W. Beattie

Last Wednesday, Authors at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto sponsored an open stage poetry smackdown at which 20 poets under the age of 35 were invited to read their poetry in front of an audience and ... Read More »

March 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Shining the spotlight on reviewing

By Steven W. Beattie

For as long as there have been books there have (presumably) been book reviews. For as long as there has been an Internet, there have been amateur book reviewers. How does the practice of reviewing ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Debut novel paints unflattering familial portrait: novelist’s family upset

By Steven W. Beattie

Apologize, Apologize! is not just the title of Elizabeth Kelly's debut novel, it's also what her estranged brother is demanding she do on account of the way their family is represented in the book. According ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Sylvia Plath’s son commits suicide

By Steven W. Beattie

Forty-six years after poet Sylvia Plath took her own life, her son Nicholas has hanged himself. Like his mother, Nicholas “ the son of Plath and poet Ted Hughes “ had struggled for much of ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Tweet your way to literary stardom

By Steven W. Beattie

In the latest race-to-the-bottom trend of cultural idiocy, books composed of Tweets by users of the popular website Twitter seem to be catching on. HarperCollins' new imprint, IT Books, is publishing one, called Twitter Wit, ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

2009 Scotiabank Giller jury announced

By Steven W. Beattie

In what is always an early harbinger of how Canada's richest literary prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, will eventually shake out, the three-person jury for the 2009 edition has been named. This year's jury is ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Watchmen and Canadian zombies at the box office

By Steven W. Beattie

To no one's surprise, Watchmen, Zack Snyder's noisy, bloated, and obnoxious adaptation of the graphic novel co-written by Dave Gibbons (according to the film's credits; writer Alan Moore's name doesn't appear anywhere in relation to ... Read More »

March 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Gargantuan Stephen King novel emerges after 25-year incubation

Amazon kindles a price war

Arrr! J.K. Rowling and John Grisham fall victim to pirates

Jacob McArthur Mooney wins Harbourfront’s Poetry Idol

Shining the spotlight on reviewing

Debut novel paints unflattering familial portrait: novelist’s family upset

Sylvia Plath’s son commits suicide

Tweet your way to literary stardom

2009 Scotiabank Giller jury announced

Watchmen and Canadian zombies at the box office

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