Authors

In Rowan Oak

Litblogger Maud Newton recently visited Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's old house in Oxford, Mississippi, and has put together a photo tour showing, among other things, the outline for A Fable that Faulkner wrote on the ... Read More »

July 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Dion promises to restore public diplomacy funding

By Nathan Whitlock

Liberal party leader Stephane Dion met with a few Canadian writers last week at the Drake Hotel in Toronto and promised that a Liberal government would restore the $11.8-million in public diplomacy funding cut from ... Read More »

July 11, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

CanLit featured in Indian bookzine

By Nathan Whitlock

Canadian writing is spotlighted in the second issue of Atlas, a new literary journal being published in New Delhi, India. In a letter accompanying a copy sent to Q&Q, B.C. contributor Peggy Herring points out ... Read More »

July 11, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Goldman family acquires the rights to O.J. Simpson book

By Nathan Whitlock

The family of Ron Goldman has acquired the rights to the controversial O.J . Simpson book about the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown-Simpson and Goldman, The Guardian reports. The book, which was titled If ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Bush and Gore daughters' books both political

By Nathan Whitlock

Jenna Bush, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush, and Kristin Gore, daughter of former U.S. vice-president Al Gore, have both published books this season. Ana's Story, from Bush, is a non-fiction story of a ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Canadian authors' playlists

By Leigh Anne Williams

Speaking of books and music, another Canadian author has provided a playlist for the American music blog Largehearted Boy. That blog's "Book Notes" feature invites authors to list songs that were meaningful during the writing ... Read More »

June 28, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Court rules that authorial persona was fraud

By Nathan Whitlock

A jury has decided that author Laura Albert's use of the alter ego/pseudonym JT LeRoy constitutes fraud, The New York Times reports. Albert published her novel Sarah in 2000 under the assumed name of JT ... Read More »

June 27, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Amis and the Americans

By Leigh Anne Williams

Why isn't Kingsley Amis better known in the U.S.? Critic Michael Dirda asks that question in an essay for The Chronicle of Higher Education. After briefly outlining Amis's career, and his strengths and peccadilloes as ... Read More »

June 20, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Authors playing DJ

By Leigh Anne Williams

As mentioned in yesterday's Quillblog, Paper Cuts, the new litblog launched by New York Times Book Review staffer Dwight Garner, has kicked off a regular feature in which authors are asked to come up with ... Read More »

June 14, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Chinua Achebe wins the international Man Booker

By Nathan Whitlock

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author best known for his 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, has won the Man Booker International Prize. The £60,000 prize, secondary to the main Man Booker prize, was recently established and ... Read More »

June 13, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Industry news

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