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May the lampooning begin

On Tom Bartlett's blog, Minor Tweaks, nestled among delightful non-sequitur features that include letters to consumer products (they, or rather their representatives, answer), dead celebrity iTunes playlists, and cheese reviews, is a send-up of James ... Read More »

January 10, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

The other poetry jury

By Leigh Anne Williams

For the second year in a row, the Ontario literary website Good Reports has put together a "runaway jury" to pick a winner from the Governor General's Award shortlist in the poetry category. Good Reports ... Read More »

November 24, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Some attention please, say fiction fetishists

By Leigh Anne Williams

The website The Literary Saloon has done some stats-gathering on titles covered in recent issues of The New York Times Book Review, and the data may not be encouraging for fiction authors and publishers. From ... Read More »

November 24, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Speculation begins over Lapham's replacement at Harper's

By Scott MacDonald

Last week, Lewis Lapham announced his decision to step down from his 24-year-long post as editor-in-chief of Harper's, saying to The New York Times, "I have a certain number of years left and a number ... Read More »

November 23, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Marchand v. Marchand

By Scott MacDonald

Talking to oneself is something a lot of us do, but most of us don't publish the results. Toronto Star books columnist Phil Marchand does just this in a recent feature on the newspaper's website.Reading ... Read More »

November 1, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Rumours fly as announcement of Nobel Prize for Literature is delayed

By Scott MacDonald

The clock continues to tick for the Nobel Academy, the body responsible for the nomination of Nobel Prize winners. For the first time in over 10 years, the Nobel Prize for Literature "was announced neither ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Bodice-ripping for the charitable

By Scott MacDonald

Presented each year by Harlequin Enterprises to five lucky ladies, the More Than Words Award celebrates community spirit in conventional and not-so-conventional ways. Now in its second year, More Than Words is awarded to founders ... Read More »

September 26, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Sound familiar?

By Scott MacDonald

In England, where bookstore chain Waterstone's was bought out by WH Smith, which was then bought out by music store giant HMV, one of the most powerful men in English publishing is now the head ... Read More »

September 23, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Dude, where's my Vasily?

By Scott MacDonald

Vanessa Thorpe of The Observer reports on another potentially troubling trend: the modification and modernization of long and otherwise difficult books. Reworked titles include a serialized but otherwise unmodified version of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Greasing the hype machine

By Scott MacDonald

A hot topic of conversation in the online literary community is the commercial success of The Traveler, an ambiguously fictional first novel written by the strangely pseudonymed John Twelve Hawks. Climbing the New York Times ... Read More »

September 12, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

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