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Surf's up for Susan Casey (and her collaborator)

Toronto-raised author Susan Casey, who now lives in New York City, has signed a million-dollar deal for a new book about the science of surfing and the quest of top surfers to master ever-bigger waves. ... Read More »

May 10, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

When Levitin met Byrne

By Leigh Anne Williams

Daniel Levitin, the McGill University professor of neuroscience and music and author of the 2006 book This Is Your Brain on Music (Dutton/Penguin), converses with former Talking Head and rock renaissance man David Byrne for ... Read More »

May 3, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Garden labyrinth to honour Carol Shields

By Nathan Whitlock

CBC.ca reports that Carol Shields’ family and friends gathered in a Winnipeg park on Monday for an official sod-turning ceremony, kicking off the creation of a garden labyrinth in the author’s honour. When it is ... Read More »

May 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

McQuaig takes Ignatieff and others to task

By Nathan Whitlock

The Tyee has posted excerpts from an interview with author and journalist Linda McQuaig, whose new book, Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire, has recently hit the shelves. Charles Demers introduces the ... Read More »

May 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Atwood vs. Harper

By Nathan Whitlock

Margaret Atwood says the Harper Tories are out to "squash the arts into the dust," CBC reports. "They basically just hate us," she says in an interview with CBC Radio. Criticizing the government’s cuts to ... Read More »

April 25, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Raw Shark in Toronto

By Nathan Whitlock

The New York Times has published an excerpt of British author Steven Hall's debut novel The Raw Shark Texts. Hall was in Toronto yesterday for the launch of the Canadian edition, which has been marketed ... Read More »

April 25, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Amazon recommends and offends

By Alison Jones

Margaret Atwood finds items that are "quite offensive" when she browses online, at least on Amazon.com. According to an article from The Times, Atwood spoke out against online book browsing at the London Book Fair ... Read More »

April 24, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Bookselling

Shakespeare's trash a literary treasure

By Alison Jones

As reported by the CBC, William Shakespeare is making a posthumous contribution to his poetry collection. Thirty years after its discovery, To the Queen by the Players, an 18-line poem, will be published for the ... Read More »

April 24, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Celebrating Katherine Mansfield

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the occasion of a new Penguin Classics edition of The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, novelist Ali Smith looks back at the life and career of the New Zealand-born fiction writer, who died in ... Read More »

April 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Suppressing Hanif Kureishi

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sensitivity or political squeamishness? BBC Radio has decided not to air a reading of a Hanif Kureishi short story . The story is in the running for the National Short Story prize, and the BBC ... Read More »

April 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

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