Search Results by tag: CLA

This just in: people like being happy

As part of the festivities surrounding the U.K. and Ireland's World Book Day, which took place this year on Thursday, March 2, results of a survey on the topic of happy endings was released. The ... Read More »

March 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Toronto Star apologizes for Bigge

By Scott MacDonald

The most fun In Other Media has had in about two weeks should end with a posting by Toronto Star books editor Dan Smith that went up on the newspaper's website yesterday. In the posting, ... Read More »

February 21, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The view from Canada on classic short stories

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's a parade of Chekhov, Carver, Joyce, and, of course, Alice Munro over at The Danforth Review. The literary website has asked 27 Canadian writers to craft a "Short Story 101" syllabus: "TDR asked 27 ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

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

Vice's vice for plagiarism

By Leigh Anne Williams

A few weeks back, news broke that the University of Georgia Press was pulping a short-story collection by Brad Vice called The Bear Bryant Funeral Train after it came out that one of the stories, ... Read More »

December 1, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Win an award. Sell some books?

By Scott MacDonald

We all know that Gillers and Governor General's Awards are boons for book sales in Canada. A book gets shortlisted, and its sales go up. A book wins, and its sales go up even further. ... Read More »

November 8, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Bookselling

Salon serializes Doctorow novella

By Scott MacDonald

Today, Salon.com unveiled the first of 10 installments of Cory Doctorow's new novella, Themepunks. Born and raised in Toronto, Doctorow, an acclaimed science fiction writer, has made all of his books available for free download, ... Read More »

September 12, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Creative writing at UBC: an appreciation

By Leigh Anne Williams

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

New York state of mind

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Toronto Star checks in on McNally Robinson New York, and finds that manager Sarah McNally is displaying such books as Annabel Lyon's The Best Thing for You and Richard B. Wright's Clara Callan, and ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Bookselling, 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

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