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Fiction vs. non-, round 2

Not too long ago, author Ken McGoogan argued in The Globe and Mail that non-fiction books get short shrift in our culture, fiction soaking up the glam and all. Now, Globe columnist and novelist Russell ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Kindersley school reverses ban on book

By Nathan Whitlock

According to a release from Sono Nis Press, author Nikki Tate was relieved to learn that Elizabeth School in Kindersley, Saskatchewan, which had previously banned her children's book Trouble on Tarragon Island, has reversed its ... Read More »

November 14, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Have your say: day jobs for authors

By Nathan Whitlock

Q&Q is doing some informal research on the best day jobs for authors. What jobs provide the most flexible schedules to accommodate creative writing? What jobs provide the best raw material or inspiration for fiction? ... Read More »

November 13, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

How much is that author in the window?

By Nathan Whitlock

One advantage of being a musician-turned-author is that when you launch your book, you can turn back into a musician to gather and entertain a crowd. That's what Dave Bidini will be doing in the ... Read More »

November 9, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Hello, Newman *

By Leigh Anne Williams

Peter C. Newman has had a long and storied career, but he continues to rack up new achievements. His latest? Getting Robert Fulford and Conrad Black on Jean Chretien's side. It all stems from Newman's ... Read More »

November 8, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Heard & Overheard: BookFest Windsor 2007 edition

By Leigh Anne Williams

Windsor, Ontario, held its sixth BookFest from Nov. 2-4, bringing together more than 40 authors and speakers, including Lawrence Hill, the University of Windsor's own Alistair MacLeod, Emma Donoghue, Gil Adamson, and more (including this ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Some hard looks at Plimpton

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's been two and a half years since journalist and author Philip Gourevitch took over as editor of The Paris Review, and now The New York Observer's Doree Shafrir sits down with Gourevitch in the ... Read More »

November 1, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Sins of omission

By Nathan Whitlock

One of Slate's features for its fall fiction week is a reprise of a "gravest literary omissions" survey it conducted a few years ago – critics' confessions of the most important books they had never ... Read More »

October 31, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

The Pull of Pullman

By Nathan Whitlock

English writer Philip Pullman kicked off the Particles of Narrative children's literature symposium on Friday by speaking to an audience of about 400 in the University of Toronto's Earth Sciences auditorium. The audience was a ... Read More »

October 29, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Cormac McCarthy: so in your face these days

By Stuart Woods

Cormac McCarthy is that rare thing in American letters: a writer who manages to balance literary acclaim with a large popular readership. (All of his books since 1992's All the Pretty Horses, for which he ... Read More »

October 23, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

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