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It must be in the air

Men robbing banks with pitchforks; pythons eating cats, turkeys, and alligators; and police handcuffing kindergarten-aged kids: according to three recent books, all this and more goes down in Florida."I'm already putting together a file for ... Read More »

January 4, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Awards, immigrant lit, and Vanity Fair: Marchand's year in review

By Scott MacDonald

On the Toronto Star website, books columnist Philip Marchand begins a CanLit-year-in-review piece, somewhat surprisingly, with a lengthy discussion of British novelist Ian McEwan's Saturday. Set in the present, McEwan's issue-driven novel is used as ... Read More »

January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Booker Prize-winning novels rejected

By Scott MacDonald

An informal investigation conducted by British newspaper The Sunday Times has an amusing and surprising result. Disguising them as manuscripts for new books, the paper sent typewritten copies of the first chapters of two novels ... Read More »

January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

On the figurative qualities of tattoos

By Scott MacDonald

An article by Margot Mifflin in the December/January issue of The Believer describes an intriguing writing project. American author Shelley Jackson announced in 2003 her plan to publish "Skin," a 2,095-word short story, as a ... Read More »

December 15, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Literary multi-tasking

By Scott MacDonald

Yahoo! News peers into the short-term future of American book offerings and sees that at least four mystery/thriller titles with conflicts revolving around the Catholic Church will be released in the early months of 2006. ... Read More »

December 15, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Whitbread could be toast

By Scott MacDonald

Big news on the book-award front: sponsorship of the Whitbread Awards, the second-most prestigious book awards in Britain after the Man Booker, is up for grabs. A sponsor for the honours since their inception in ... Read More »

December 14, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Philip Roth: charming killjoy

By Scott MacDonald

In The Guardian today, Philip Roth grants a rare and delightful interview to Danish journalist Martin Krasnik. In it, Roth talks of his fear of death, his disgust for religion, and his new novel Everyman; ... Read More »

December 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

HarperCollins to offer digital content online

By Scott MacDonald

In a landmark move in the controversy over digitizing books for online use, HarperCollins announced yesterday that it would create a digital library of all its book and audio content that will be both available ... Read More »

December 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Nobel-nominated author, Crips founder, Tookie Williams executed

By Scott MacDonald

At 12:35 a.m. PST this morning, Stanley "Tookie" Williams, convicted murderer, gang founder, and Nobel Prize-nominated children's and YA author, was executed by lethal injection at the San Quentin State Prison just outside of San ... Read More »

December 13, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Vanity Fair comes to town

By Leigh Anne Williams

Vanity Fair's promised survey of the Toronto literary scene has materialized on the magazine's website. VF writer Anderson Tepper hit the International Festival of Authors at Toronto's Harbourfront in October, inspired by an earlier visit ... Read More »

December 12, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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