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Lost Man Booker Prize honours books that fell through the cracks

Forty years after they were published, 22 books are now eligible for the Lost Man Booker Prize. This one-time literary award has been created to honour books published in 1970, the year when a change ... Read More »

February 2, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Amazon fails, flanimals escape, and more

By Laura Godfrey

Here are some literary links for your perusal: Amazon continues to fail: After removing all Macmillan titles from its site, the company's own stock fell nearly 6% yesterday Salty Ink is throwing caution to the ... Read More »

February 2, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Readers salivate over Salinger’s unpublished manuscripts

By Steven W. Beattie

J.D. Salinger has been dead a scant five days, but already people are clamouring for his unpublished work to be made available. In a 1974 interview (one of the few the famously reclusive author ever ... Read More »

February 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Terry Pratchett calls for assisted suicide “tribunals”

By Steven W. Beattie

Terry Pratchett, U.K. author of the wildly popular Discworld series, says that special "tribunals" should be set up to allow people suffering serious medical conditions to seek help in terminating their own lives. Assisted suicide ... Read More »

February 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

J.D. Salinger dies at 91

By Laura Godfrey

J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey, has died at age 91 in his New Hampshire home. According to The New York Times, the author died of natural causes: ... Read More »

January 28, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Atwood gets kudos in Davos

By Nathan Whitlock

Margaret Atwood has been given the Crystal Award by the government and business muckety-mucks attending this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. From the Winnipeg Free Press: "I am very honoured to have been ... Read More »

January 28, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

New political tell-all casts John Edwards in unflattering limelight

By Laura Godfrey

Move aside, Game Change. A new political tell-all is set to hit shelves on Jan. 30: the aptly titled The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That ... Read More »

January 27, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

McGraw-Hill CEO blows Apple’s cover

By Laura Godfrey

To add to last-minute Apple Tablet fever, ebooknewser caught this clip on CNBC last night, when Terry McGraw, CEO of McGraw-Hill, revealed on-air that the Tablet will, in fact, be announced today, that McGraw-Hill has ... Read More »

January 27, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Librarian songs, Apple-themed poetry, and more

By Laura Godfrey

From today's Web, some literary links for your perusal: Galleycat reveals that the book Deep River, by Japanese author Shusaku Endo, will play a role in an upcoming episode of Lost's final season Flavorwire compiles ... Read More »

January 26, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, on the blacklist?

By Laura Godfrey

If you thought dictionaries were offensive to children, you should also be wary of Bill Martin, Jr.'s beloved picture book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? According to the Dallas Morning News, Texas' ... Read More »

January 26, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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