Barbara Gowdy awarded 2012 John Simon Guggenheim fellowship for fiction Nigella Lawson offloads her friend Sophia Waugh's book on eBay The Guardian ... Read More »
April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
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Canada Reads author Dave Bidini performs with the BidiniBand at the Toronto Reference Library (Photo: Tanja-Tiziana Burdi) Dave Bidini's rock memoir, On a Cold Road, is the latest title to be voted off CBC's Canada ... Read More »
February 8, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Organizers of the Alberta Readers' Choice Award, now in its third year, have taken steps to quiet a muted strain of controversy that has attached itself to the prize since its inception. The $10,000 award, ... Read More »
November 9, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Libraries
This week, the controversy dogging Chinese-Canadian author Ling Zhang's second novel, Gold Mountain Blues, flared up again as prominent Chinese-Canadian authors Wayson Choy, Sky Lee, and Paul Yee signed a letter asking Penguin Canada to ... Read More »
October 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Industry news
Sundry links from around the Web: Robert Fulford on the "long service in the trench warfare of editing" of Oxford University Press's William Toye The Association of American Publishers reports a staggering 116 per cent ... Read More »
The "Great Chinese Canadian Literary Feud" is now underway, according to a Toronto Star story by Bill Schiller. The author at the centre of the supposed controversy is Toronto's Zhang Ling, whose previous novel, Aftershock, ... Read More »
February 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The U.K.'s Daily Mail (via MobyLives) reports authors and publishers who are accusing each other of skewing Amazon star ratings by creating fake reader reviews: [PR firms] provide favourable reviews of new books, at a ... Read More »
November 30, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Governor General's Literary Award“winning poet Jacob Scheier has weighed in on the Ali Smith/Giller Prize controversy on Now Magazine's website. As you may recall, Scheier himself was at the centre of an awards scandal after ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Awards
Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize“winning author of The God of Small Things, has been in the news recently for her outspoken comments about Kashmiri secession from India. Last week, rumours began circulating that the author ... Read More »
November 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Today's book news: Rohinton Mistry title sparks controversy in Mumbai Newly published Twain memoir hits #1 on Amazon R.I.P.: Belva Plain Harlequin ... Read More »
October 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book links
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