by Stuart Woods

U.S. award honours Christopher Paul Curtis

The Washington Post is reporting that Windsor, Ontario, resident Christopher Paul Curtis has scooped up his third Coretta Scott King Award for Elijah of Buxton, his YA novel about a free-born child in an Ontario ... Read More »

January 15, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Ursula K. Le Guin on the “crass stupidity” of corporations

By Stuart Woods

Noted sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin weighs in on what she calls the "alleged decline of reading" in a feature essay in the February issue of Harper's. The article begins with a predictable litany ... Read More »

January 15, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

America’s top bachelor: Spider-Man

By Stuart Woods

Spider-Man fans are scratching their heads in disbelief after a plot twist in a recent installment reversed one of the series' longstanding narrative pillars: Peter Parker's 21-year marriage with Mary Jane Watson. According to the ... Read More »

January 15, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Book prices for pundits

By Stuart Woods

As New York Times critic Dwight Garner highlights on his blog, Abebooks is reporting on its website that collectible editions of Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, the Democrat hopeful's 1995 autobiography, have sold through ... Read More »

January 8, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

jPod’s mixed blessings

By Stuart Woods

Preliminary reviews of CBC TV's jPod are in, and so far critical reception of the new hour-long comedy-drama series “ based on the novel by Douglas Coupland “ is decidedly mixed. The only wholeheartedly favourable ... Read More »

January 8, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Canadian authors get inked

By Stuart Woods

What do George Orwell, Dorothy Parker, and John Irving all have in common? A penchant for tattoos, according to an article posted on the website of Abebooks, the Victoria-based online book retailer. The piece opens ... Read More »

January 8, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Don’t fear the Reaper

By Stuart Woods

A fitting coda to the media's handwringing this year over all things literary is Caleb Crain's piece in The New Yorker, ominously titled "Twilight of the Books," which looks at how declining literacy is affecting ... Read More »

December 19, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

The Internet, and other modern horrors

By Stuart Woods

Perhaps in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of blogging, Guy Gavriel Kay has a piece in this past weekend's Globe and Mail Books section about the perils facing authors in the digital age. Gavriel Kay ... Read More »

December 18, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Toronto library cuts add up to next to no savings

By Stuart Woods

The National Post is reporting that a settlement between the Toronto Public Library and its labour union is essentially reversing the savings from the Sunday closure of 16 of the city's libraries, announced earlier this ... Read More »

December 18, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Hearst magazines go with Canada-only prices

By Stuart Woods

In a story that's near and dear to our hearts here at Quillblog, The Toronto Star is reporting that Hearst Magazines “ which publishes Cosmopolitan, Oprah Magazine, Seventeen, Good Housekeeping, Popular Mechanics and Esquire “ ... Read More »

December 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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