October 16, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
Search Results by tag: controversy
Possibly the most vital – and certainly the most gratuitous – debate in American letters is occurring almost entirely under the radar. The controversy surrounds a body of work referred to variously as ghetto, urban, ... Read More »
Just in time for Banned Books Week, which runs until Oct. 6, The New York Times reports how a loophole in English law, combined with the globalized booktrade, may have a deleterious effect on freedom ... Read More »
October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
Maclean's books columnist Brian Bethune has posted a blog entry on the Paul William Roberts plagiarism controversy. (Quick recap: a few passages in Roberts' book A War Against Truth were found to have been lifted ... Read More »
February 8, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
Although the famous have come to his defence in the question of plagiarism or fair borrowing as historical research, will anyone defend Ian McEwan from Ziauddin Sardar's charge in New Statesman that he, Martin Amis, ... Read More »
December 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
In case anyone missed it, James Frey has spoken in-depth to a reporter – Laura Barton, writing for The Guardian – for the first time since the massive controversy over his Oprah-anointed but exaggerated "memoir," ... Read More »
September 21, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
What's the best way to sell a book? Recent events surrounding Mark Tushingham's book, Hotter Than Hell, suggest that a little controversy can't hurt. In Other Media linked last week to coverage of the Harper ... Read More »
April 25, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
Here at In Other Media, controversy makes us as giddy as the recipients of brand new puppies on Valentine's Day morning. In the last month or so, we linked to as many stories on James ... Read More »
February 14, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Globe and Mail books editor Martin Levin weighs in on the controversy about the Washington Post review of John Irving's new novel. (To recap: reviewer Marianne Wiggins savaged the book in the Post, but the ... Read More »
August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
There was a lot of attention paid to author André Alexis's decision to step down from the Governor General's fiction jury over a personal conflict (assumed to involve Catherine Bush's novel Claire's Head), but he ... Read More »
November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news