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Random House of Canada files statement of defence in Conrad Black lawsuit

Random House of Canada today filed a statement of defence with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in a legal suit filed by Conrad Black. The former media mogul is suing the publisher for defamation ... Read More »

February 19, 2013 | Filed under: Industry news

Conrad Black sues Random House of Canada, Bruce Livesey for defamation

By Sue Carter

A little more than a month after announcing he was planning to keep a low public profile, the National Post reports that Conrad Black is suing Random House of Canada for defamation. According to the ... Read More »

June 22, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Conrad Black to appear at Toronto’s Bram & Bluma Appel Salon

By Sue Carter

Although he's vowed to maintain a low profile since his return to Canada, Conrad Black is keeping book events on his personal calendar, including a June 26 appearance at the Toronto Reference Library's Bram & ... Read More »

May 29, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary Payback owes its existence to Margaret Atwood

By Sue Carter

(Photo: National Film Board of Canada) While it may be inaccurate to call Jennifer Baichwal's documentary Payback a direct adaptation of Margaret Atwood's best-selling book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (House of ... Read More »

March 15, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Bookmark this: Conrad Black Book Club

By Sue Carter

According to Q&Q reviewer Dan Rowe, "Only devout Black completists will find anything of value" in Conrad Black's second memoir, A Matter of Principle (McClelland & Stewart). Unless, of course, you're a Ron Burgundy or ... Read More »

November 22, 2011 | Filed under: Authors

Conrad Black memoir due this fall

By Stuart Woods

After several years of delays, the newly re-sentenced Conrad Black is ready to publish his memoir chronicling (among other things) his prison years. And if you take Lord Black at his hyperbolic word, readers should ... Read More »

June 29, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Take that, Stephenie Meyer!

By Steven W. Beattie

It may not star the young wizard from Hogwarts, but J.K. Rowling's latest book, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, has become the fastest-selling title of 2008. According to Reuters (by way of the National ... Read More »

December 17, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Publishers fail to snap up book on Sarah Palin

By Steven W. Beattie

In a vivid example of the dangers of writing history while it's being made, the New York Observer reports that right-wing broadcaster Hugh Hewitt's proposed book, How Sarah Palin Won the Election... And Saved America, ... Read More »

October 10, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

The New York Sun shuts down

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

After a six-year run, the New York Sun is shutting down. From the New York Times: The Sun's president and editor, Seth Lipsky, said a three-week search for new financial backers had failed. Mr. Lipsky ... Read More »

September 30, 2008

Shinan Govani takes on Bennett’s blue bloods

By Steven W. Beattie

Gadfly and gossip-hound Shinan Govani takes novelist Jonathan Bennett to task in the pages of today's National Post, suggesting that Bennett's portrayal of the well-heeled, monied classes in his new book, Entitlement, misses the mark. ... Read More »

September 25, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

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