On the CBC website, Rachel Giese tells us what everyone in the Canadian book biz should already know: how to spot award-winning Canadian works of fiction. Taking a tally of 31 past winners of the ... Read More »
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American author Lauren Mechling has a first-person piece on the CBC Arts site about her struggle for literary respectability. "When I tell people I write teen fiction," she writes, "they tend to chuckle condescendingly, or ... Read More »
CBC Arts writer Andre Mayer looks at the phenomenon of the ultra-prolific writer, with Alexander McCall Scott -- he of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, among many other books -- as the poster ... Read More »
April 18, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
On the CBC Arts site, Katrina Onstad surveys the chick-lit scene, focusing on non-fiction titles like He's Just Not That Into You as well as Canadian dating-themed books like Playing With Matches: Misadventures in Dating ... Read More »
April 4, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
The release of Sheila Heti's debut novel, Ticknor -- following a highly visible short-story collection, The Middle Stories, in 2000 -- has kicked off a round of profiles. CBC Arts plays up House of Anansi ... Read More »
March 28, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
CBC Arts looks back at the University of British Columbia's creative writing program on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. There is, of course, a strong emphasis on the commercial glory days of the late ... Read More »
March 17, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
Sex in Canadian fiction is the angle of Peter Darbyshire's review of Stephen Marche's Raymond and Hannah on the CBC Arts website. In CanLit, Darbyshire laments, "sex is rarely a pleasurable event. Instead, it is ... Read More »
February 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
With all the talk about graphic novels and comics-for-grownups now reaching the mainstream media, few people have looked at the problem of comics for kids: the problem being that there aren't any, or at least ... Read More »
February 7, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
The CBC's recently relaunched arts website includes a screed by writer Li Robbins on the many evils of book clubs. Her point seems to be that they destroy the individual freedom and essentially solitary pleasure ... Read More »
January 31, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
With the CBC's fourth annual Canada Reads program set to kick off on Feb. 21, a recent editorial on the Canada Reads phenomenon in the scholarly journal Canadian Literature is well timed. And writer Laura ... Read More »
January 31, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
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