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The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency on TV

Fans of Alexander McCall Smith's bestseller The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency are either rejoicing or wailing “ it's being made into a television series. The good news is that it's being co-produced by the ... Read More »

March 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Happy World Book Day, dummy!

By Stuart Woods

Coinciding with World Book Day, celebrated yesterday in the U.K., Faber and Faber publisher Steven Page added his voice to the chorus of supporters of new technology, in an op-ed piece in The Guardian. But ... Read More »

March 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Stephen Marche on Robbe-Grillet

By Scott MacDonald

Experimental French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet has been dead for only a few weeks, but it looks as if the touching eulogy phase is already over. Salon has just posted an essay by Canadian author Stephen ... Read More »

March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

The coming year in memoir fraud

By Nathan Whitlock

We here at Quillblog remember a day “ back when we were young and having remarkable and poignant experiences we reserve the right to one day lay out in book form “ when memoirs were ... Read More »

March 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Lemony Snicket and the perils of stock photography

By Jacob Sheen

Here's a cautionary tale about using stock photography. Grove Press loved the cover of the German edition of Sasa Stanisic's first novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, so they used it for the U.S. ... Read More »

March 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Douglas Coupland talks bees and librarians

By Nathan Whitlock

A dapper-looking Douglas Coupland is interviewed on The New York Times' book blog about his next book (“a new novel set in the near future when bees are extinct"), his thoughts on the web and ... Read More »

March 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Superman needs tights, says Michael Chabon

By Nathan Whitlock

Michael Chabon has a long essay in The New Yorker on the meaning of superhero costumes. He writes: In theory, the costume forms part of the strategy of concealment. But in fact the superhero's costume ... Read More »

March 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Free Bock book

By Jacob Sheen

Random House in the U.S. is offering a free download of Charles Bock's much-hyped debut novel, Beautiful Children, but only until Friday. In a statement released by Random House, Bock said, "I want people to ... Read More »

February 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

How to build a modern library

By Jacob Sheen

Slate has a regular slideshow column, and it's always interesting. This week it tackles the architecture of libraries, and how library design has had to change since computers defeated books by a score of 6 ... Read More »

February 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Nebraska library adopts CC

By Stuart Woods

Mark one small victory for supporters of Creative Commons, the alternative licensing protocol that gives authors more freedom to dictate restrictions on their work. As reported on the Nebraska Library Commission blog, several CC titles ... Read More »

February 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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