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On reading Dick

In a piece for the Maisonneuve website, Toronto novelist Michel Basilières considers the legacy of science fiction legend Philip K. Dick. For mainstream audiences, Dick is best known as the writer whose work inspired films ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The perils of writing about writers, part 2: when relatives attack

By Leigh Anne Williams

Bel Canto author Ann Patchett has recently published Truth & Beauty, a non-fiction book about her friendship with poet and memoirist Lucy Grealy, who died of a heroin overdose in 2002. Now Grealy's sister is ... Read More »

August 12, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Young man Winter and his travels

By Leigh Anne Williams

At a BookExpo America panel discussion last June, Publishers Lunch proprietor Michael Cader wondered aloud why publishers don't set all of their authors up with in-house blogs. Now a Canadian house has taken at least ... Read More »

August 12, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The perils of writing about writers

By Leigh Anne Williams

For many readers, the value of an "authorized biography" is dubious. The suspicion is that the work will be a servile and selective record of the subject's life, minus even the bonus of close access ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Work it

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a New York Times Book Review column, Laura Miller ponders the way the world of work is under-represented in literary fiction, concluding that "if the office (or factory or restaurant) is where people find ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Marchand returns to take on Clinton

By Leigh Anne Williams

Toronto Star columnist Philip Marchand has apparently finished his leave of absence. He returns to the paper in Thursday's edition to address what's certainly the hottest Toronto book story of the week -- former President ... Read More »

August 5, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Deconstructing the lobster

By Leigh Anne Williams

A postmodern novelist known for his linguistic contortions, a glossy foodie magazine, and the Maine Lobster festival. Sounds like the perfect recipe for a 6,000-word article. The article in question is by noted fiction writer ... Read More »

August 5, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The fruits of kindness

By Leigh Anne Williams

After charming Canadian readers and reviewers with her latest novel, A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews is starting to get some international attention. In Britain's The Guardian, Zoe Williams has turned in a long profile of ... Read More »

August 2, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Someone's in the kitchen

By Leigh Anne Williams

If there's not already a PhD thesis on record somewhere about the bourgeois fetishization of gourmet food in contemporary Canadian fiction, there ought to be. It's long been a pet peeve of some of us ... Read More »

July 26, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Canada needs more of the world

By Leigh Anne Williams

Maisonneuve columnist Zach Wells has weighed in further on the absence of foreign voices on our domestic poetry lists. "In a previous column, I lamented Canada's piss-poor record of publishing foreign poetry written in English," ... Read More »

July 26, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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