Book news

Super Thursday in Britain, and what U.S., U.K. publishers will be taking to Frankfurt

Americans have "Black Friday," the Friday after Thanksgiving, which is the start of the Christmas shopping fiasco season, and which can, on occasion, lead to actual loss of life. It's hard to imagine book buyers ... Read More »

September 28, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Douglas Coupland reminisces about writing Generation X

By Steven W. Beattie

This month, acclaimed author and zeitgeist-hound Douglas Coupland publishes his 11th novel, Generation A. In advance of the occasion, he took the opportunity in yesterday's Guardian to jump into the Wayback Machine and talk about ... Read More »

September 28, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

It’s witchcraft! Bush White House said no to J.K. Rowling

By Nathan Whitlock

ThinkProgress has been excerpting juicy bits from Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor, a memoir by former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer. The most recent concerns the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which, though always political ... Read More »

September 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Robert “Jackpot” Sawyer on tonight’s FlashForward premiere

By Stuart Woods

It's been a decade in the making, but tonight will see the premiere of the new ABC television series FlashForward, based on the novel by Robert J. Sawyer. The show, which is being billed as ... Read More »

September 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Joan Thomas takes Amazon first novel award

By Stuart Woods

The winner of this year's Amazon First Novel Award is Winnipeg author Joan Thomas, who won for Reading by Lightning (Goose Lane Editions). A coming-of-age tale set in rural Manitoba around the time of the ... Read More »

September 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Superhero Bill Cosby, scary Margaret Atwood, and the Poet of Swinging Suicides

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: In honour of Leonard Cohen's 75th birthday yesterday, 1 Heck of a Guy comes up with an incomplete list of Cohen's many nicknames. Quillblog favourites: #22: Master of the ... Read More »

September 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

“Brooding on Muskoka chairs”: Brit Giller judge on Canadian literature

By Alison Potstra

In the Sept. 12 edition of the Financial Times, British critic and novelist Victoria Glendinning, who sits on this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize jury (which announced its longlist yesterday), generously shared her thoughts on Canadian literature. Following ... Read More »

September 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Oprah, Dan Brown, Google, and more “ it’s a big news day in the book biz

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Did Ingram accidentally leak the next Oprah book club pick? (By the way, it's Uwem Akpan's short story collection Say You're One of Them) Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol ... Read More »

September 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Steven Galloway to Barbara Kay: I’m a Canadian novelist and proud of it

By Stuart Woods

Last week, National Post columnist Barbara Kay stirred up some controversy when she trashed Lisa Moore's novel February for being both unmanly and unreadable “ a symptom of what Kay describes as an overly feminized, ... Read More »

September 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Whither fiction? Swedish spitball edition

By Nathan Whitlock

A couple of weeks ago, we linked to Lev Grossman's Wall Street Journal op-ed heralding a new era of plottiness in literary fiction and an end to modernist obscurantism. Readers want story, Grossman declared, and ... Read More »

September 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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