Just because the greatest books rely on imagination and abstract images doesn't mean the stores that sell them have to. Thankfully, some ... Read More »
March 18, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
The winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, which is partially funded by the Booker foundation, has been announced. The majority of titles on the shortlist “ Hunger, The Unfaithful Translator, The American Granddaughter, Time of White Horses, The ... Read More »
March 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
The author as drunken lout is hardly groundbreaking, but it's rare to unearth the sort of apology Edgar Allen Poe offered his publishers J. and H.G. Langley for his mint julep-fuelled behaviour in 1842: Will you be so ... Read More »
March 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
In the latest race-to-the-bottom trend of cultural idiocy, books composed of Tweets by users of the popular website Twitter seem to be catching on. HarperCollins' new imprint, IT Books, is publishing one, called Twitter Wit, ... Read More »
March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
In what is always an early harbinger of how Canada's richest literary prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, will eventually shake out, the three-person jury for the 2009 edition has been named. This year's jury is ... Read More »
March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Sundry links from around the Web: Star literary agent Eric Simonoff, the man who landed Andrew Davidson $1.25-million for The Gargoyle, has jumped ship to a new agency, joining global talent agency William Morris. Back ... Read More »
March 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
About 225 industry people crowded into a Toronto conference room on Thursday for BookNet Canada's annual technology forum. The theme of this year's conference was evolution or revolution, though most of the speakers seemed to ... Read More »
March 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Three years after its launch, New York City's the Big Read (itself a spawn of "What If All of Seattle Read the Same Book," launched 10 years ago) has spawned smaller, community-based undertakings, with thousands ... Read More »
March 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
While many American houses are shuttering their specialty divisions and laying off employees, HarperCollins is bucking its own trend by creating a new division. It Books will focus on "pop culture, sports, style and content derived ... Read More »
March 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
To no one's surprise, Watchmen, Zack Snyder's noisy, bloated, and obnoxious adaptation of the graphic novel co-written by Dave Gibbons (according to the film's credits; writer Alan Moore's name doesn't appear anywhere in relation to ... Read More »
March 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
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