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R.B. Fleming responds to Gzowski family’s criticisms

Last week, Quillblog noted that the family of Peter Gzowski was speaking out against some of the claims made in an unauthorized biography of the CBC Radio broadcaster. In a comment posted to the blog, ... Read More »

September 13, 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

Canadian iBookstore under federal review

By Stuart Woods

University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist is reporting that the Canadian iBookstore is being reviewed by the federal government under the country's cultural investment policy. According to Privy Council Office documents, an order authorizing the ... Read More »

September 9, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Wall Street Journal starts book review section

By Stuart Woods

Bucking the trend of ever-declining books coverage, The Wall Street Journal will launch its first-ever book review section in the coming weeks. According to The New York Observer, which broke the news, the standalone section ... Read More »

September 9, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Douglas Coupland wins monumental commission

By Stuart Woods

Douglas Coupland is having a banner year. Not only did he use the occasion of this year's Massey Lectures to deliver the manuscript of a new novel, he has also designed a clothing line for ... Read More »

September 9, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Gzowski family responds to controversial bio

By Stuart Woods

The revelations contained in the first full-length biography of journalist and broadcaster Peter Gzowski are beginning to provoke a backlash. R.B. Fleming's Peter Gzowski: A Biography (Dundurn Press) contains many uncomfortable truths about the host ... Read More »

September 9, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

The Grand Design gets angry reviews

By Alina Seagal

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow's The Grand Design (Bantam Books) was Amazon's top seller upon its release on Tuesday. It has since fallen to the fourth spot, raking in less than Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy ... Read More »

September 8, 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

Atwood-bashing begins over “Fox News North”

By Stuart Woods

Margaret Atwood is once again lending her name to a worthy cause, and like her support for the environment, brown-bag lunches, and stay-at-home book tours, the celebrated novelist's actions have generated some mild controversy in ... Read More »

September 2, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Thomas Trofimuk’s Waiting for Columbus part of Richard and Judy’s Book Club 2.0

By Nathan Whitlock

Since ending their long-running British TV chat show, Richard and Judy have mostly ruled out a return to the small screen. Luckily for publishers and booksellers (and, depending how you look at it, readers), they ... Read More »

September 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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