by Stuart Woods

Literacy agency fights AIDS

The Toronto Star reports on two Canadian philanthropists who have traveled to Africa to see how their donations to an Ottawa-based literacy agency are being used in the fight against AIDS. Bill Burt and Judy ... Read More »

November 13, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Spider-Man, Superman conquer the Internet

By Stuart Woods

Ever notice that kids these days just aren't into ol' fashioned, ink-and-paper comic books? Well, apparently comics publishers have, and they're worried that new fangled technologies like the Web and video games are diverting kids ... Read More »

November 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Yann Martel's new book courts controversy

By Stuart Woods

Yann Martel, currently on tour in the U.S. to promote the illustrated edition of Life of Pi, shared details about his new book, A 20th-Century Shirt, which he says should be due in fall 2008. ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Death of God good for books, bad for Hollywood

By Stuart Woods

New York magazine's culture blog points out how Phillip Pullman is distancing himself from his image as a God-despising, atheism-peddling iconoclast in the run-up to the release of Hollywood's mega-budget adaptation of The Golden Compass, ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Giller speculation

By Stuart Woods

It's safe to say that last year's Giller Prize-winner, Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, caught some pundits off-guard. (Ahem.) This year, the peanut gallery has kept curiously mum on who will take home the ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Harry Potter for snobs

By Stuart Woods

Weighing in on the controversy over whether or not you-know-who is you-know-what, The New York Times cultural critic Edward Rothstein makes the reasonable assertion that "it is possible Ms. Rowling may be mistaken about her ... Read More »

October 30, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Coupland goes viral, Staples tags along

By Stuart Woods

The final three YouTube video trailers for Douglas Coupland's new novel, The Gum Thief, were released last week. The series has been attracting steady traffic since the campaign started a month ago. CBC.ca reports: [Coupland's ... Read More »

October 30, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Cormac McCarthy: so in your face these days

By Stuart Woods

Cormac McCarthy is that rare thing in American letters: a writer who manages to balance literary acclaim with a large popular readership. (All of his books since 1992's All the Pretty Horses, for which he ... Read More »

October 23, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Rowling "pretty and nice" at Toronto reading

By Stuart Woods

A for-kids-only reading by J.K. Rowling at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre went off without a hitch, according to Quillblog's two exclusive sources, both of whom are nine years old. Rowling reportedly read her favourite passage ... Read More »

October 23, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Maureen Jennings' brush with death

By Stuart Woods

The Associated Press is reporting that a U.S. man, Fred Hunt of Burwick, Maine, died on Monday rescuing Canadian mystery writer Maureen Jennings, who was swimming off the Florida coast with her husband. "I'm very ... Read More »

October 23, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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