Book news

American Book Review goes negative

The American Book Review has released a list of the "Top 40 Bad Books" of all time. Selected largely by academics, the list contains some surprises. D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love is described as what ... Read More »

March 15, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: feminist or blatantly misogynistic?

By Steven W. Beattie

Back in October 2009, Quillblog pointed to an article in the Guardian about novelist Jessica Mann, who had decided to cease reviewing certain violent crime novels because of what she saw as their "sadistic misogyny." ... Read More »

March 15, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up, March 11

By Scott MacDonald

News, news, and more news: Graphic novel glitch just keeps getting worse as Amazon removes Diamond's buy buttons Stephenie Meyer floats Hachette's boat Italy falls in Google's big game of Axis & Allies How many ... Read More »

March 11, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Event photos: Ann Towell gets Grease-y, Chantal Simmons gets Love Struck, and Stuart Ross goes Rogue

By Nathan Whitlock

Ann Towell launched her YA novel Grease Town (Tundra Books) on March 6, at the Oil Museum of Canada in Oil Springs, Ontario. Furthermore, oil. (Photo by Larry Towell/Magnum/Courtesy of Tundra Books) Chantal Simmons launched ... Read More »

March 10, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Ian Weir doles out writing advice at the Afterword Reading Society wrap-up

By Laura Godfrey

Last night, book lovers gathered at Ben McNally Books in Toronto for the National Post's inaugural Afterword Reading Society wrap-up. Brad Frenette, Afterword co-editor, hosted a Q&A with Ian Weir, whose novel Daniel O'Thunder (Douglas ... Read More »

March 10, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

New book re-examines JFK’s death via letters to Jackie

By Laura Godfrey

When U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, the nation - and the world - expressed its grief by sending over one million letters to his wife, Jackie “ some even came from ... Read More »

March 9, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Can a literary Toronto exist?

By Steven W. Beattie

The city of Toronto has been called many things “ the centre of the universe (but only by Torontonians), "New York run by the Swiss" (Peter Ustinov), a place where "[t]hose from other countries look ... Read More »

March 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Pulling a Roth

By Steven W. Beattie

Anyone who has read Portnoy's Complaint might raise an eyebrow at the idea of "pulling a Roth," but Stuart Evers, writing on the Guardian's book blog, means something altogether different. Evers notes that unlike many ... Read More »

March 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Salty Ink’s Judge a Book By Its Cover Contest winner announced

By Laura Godfrey

After weeks of waiting and a thousand votes, Salty Ink's Chad Pelley has announced the winner of the Judge a Book By Its Cover contest, out of a shortlist of three Atlantic Canadian books released ... Read More »

March 5, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Event photos: Rod McQueen launches BlackBerry in Toronto

By Stuart Woods

Last night, journalist Rod McQueen celebrated the launch of his latest book at Books for Business in downtown Toronto. The book, entitled BlackBerry: The Inside Story of Research In Motion (Key Porter Books), is about ... Read More »

March 3, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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