Book news

CBC Canada Reads announces Top 40

As many of you are doubtless aware, the next CBC Canada Reads competition will be slightly different from past ones, in that the public is being asked to narrow the field of candidates by voting ... Read More »

October 28, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

CTV launches Giller reading initiative

By Scott MacDonald

As part of its efforts to promote the upcoming Scotiabank Giller Prize broadcast, CTV has launched an online reading initiative that encourages the public to pledge to read one or more of the Giller nominees ... Read More »

October 27, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

A.J. Somerset on “Jonathan friggin’ Franzen”

By Alina Seagal

A.J. Somerset launched his debut novel, Combat Camera, this September. On Tuesday, his publisher, Biblioasis, posted a ... Read More »

October 26, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

The Final Call launch

By Alina Seagal

Retired NHL referee Kerry Fraser launched his book, The Final Call: Hockey Stories from a Legend in Stripes (Fenn Publishing), at Toronto's ... Read More »

October 26, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Canada-Japan Literary Award winners announced

By Alina Seagal

The Canada Council for the Arts announced the winners of the 21st Canada-Japan Literary Awards on Monday. Burnaby, B.C., authors Masako and Stanley Fukawa won $10,000 for Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet, a historical account ... Read More »

October 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

A day in the life of Ifran Sanci: on trial for obscenity, honoured by International Publishers Association

By Steven W. Beattie

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

Tony Burgess’s bloody new book trailer

By Steven W. Beattie

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

Daily book biz round-up: Winterset Award doubles; Dave Bidini dances; and more

By Alina Seagal

Today's book news: Amazon to let users loan Kindle books Winterset Award pot to double to $10,000 Anis Shivani compares creative writing programs to medieval guild systems Dave Bidini catches "dancing writer's fatigue" at Calgary ... Read More »

October 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up: McPherson & Co. confused; Amazon barcode app criticized; and more

By Alina Seagal

Today's book news: Portland bookstore's 17-foot Mockingjay display scores a visit from Suzanne Collins Amazon's new barcode scanner app revisited The Miami Herald requests a poem to celebrate basketball star LeBron James National Book Award ... Read More »

October 22, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Michael Kenyon, Stuart Ross, and Gillian Jerome take home ReLit Awards

By Stuart Woods

The ReLit Awards, Canada's prize for small press“published literature, were handed out last night at the Ottawa International Writers Festival. The winning authors are: Michael Kenyon, for his novel The Beautiful Children (Thistledown Press); Stuart ... Read More »

October 21, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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