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Andrew Nikiforuk becomes first Canadian to win prestigious environment book award

Alberta writer and environmentalist Andrew Nikiforuk has been awarded the 8th annual Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the U.S.-based Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ). Nikiforuk, who was honoured for his book Tar Sands: Dirty ... Read More »

July 22, 2009 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Canadian government hosts online copyright forum

By Steven W. Beattie

With very little fanfare, and smack in the middle of the summer vacation season, the government of Canada has set up a website to solicit Canadians' opinions about "the important issue of copyright." Spearheaded by ... Read More »

July 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The undead of CanLit

By Steven W. Beattie

In the footsteps of Quirk Books' Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and its just-announced follow up, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, Coach House Books publicist Evan Munday wants to know which Canadian book would ... Read More »

July 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Authors challenge the idea of a national literature

By Suzanne Gardner

Canadian authors Margaret Atwood and Anne Michaels, along with Britain's Monica Ali and Ireland's Joseph O'Neill, have contributed their thoughts on the idea of a national literature to The Atlantic's Fiction 2009 special issue, created ... Read More »

July 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Barnes & Noble launches world’s biggest e-book store

By Suzanne Gardner

U.S. mega-chain Barnes & Noble announced in a press release yesterday the creation of the world's biggest e-book store comprising "more than 700,000 titles, including hundreds of new releases and bestsellers at only $9.99." Unlike ... Read More »

July 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Gil Adamson’s The Outlander lands film deal

By Stuart Woods

Gil Adamson's first novel, The Outlander (published by House of Anansi Press in 2007), has been optioned for the big screen by a trio of production companies from Canada and the U.K. The production companies ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Kenneth Oppel in outer space

By Stuart Woods

The 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing may be grabbing all the headlines today, so it's easy to overlook a bookish footnote to the historic milestone. According to a press release from the Canada ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Cheap irony alert: Orwell removed from Kindle

By Nathan Whitlock

From the Associated Press: A pirated e-book of 1984 led to an Orwellian moment for Kindle customers. Users of Amazon.com's e-reader device were surprised and unsettled over the past day to receive notice that George ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Frank McCourt, Yann Martel, Tom Wolfe, Harry Potter, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Frank McCourt dies at 78. Yann Martel's new novel gets a U.S. deal. Tom Wolfe says, "To the moon, America, to the moon..." Harry Potter books "very Talmudic." What's wrong with the ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Jane Austen, sea monsters, and Twilight comix: Enough already!!!

By Steven W. Beattie

This Quillblogger will confess to finding the premise behind Pride and Prejudice and Zombies irresistible: take Jane Austen's most famous novel (and one of the least likely books ever to be associated with zombies), and ... Read More »

July 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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