Search Results by tag: crime

Bookmarks: 1,000 novels everyone must read, toilet poems, and more

The Guardian has created a list of 1000 novels everyone must read, broken down into categories like comedy, crime, family and self, and state of the nation. In considering the list, Stuart Walton wonders whether ... Read More »

January 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: More layoffs at Random House U.S., the credit crunch, and Richard Price’s behind

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from the Web: More wreckage at Random House U.S.: Pantheon Books publisher Janice Goldklang is laid off after 25 years with the company. How well do you know crime fiction? Take the Ceeb's ... Read More »

January 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book links

CTV adapts Spalding’s Who Named the Knife?

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

On Jan. 7, CTV will air Of Murder and Memory, a fictionalized adaptation of Linda Spalding's 2006 true crime memoir Who Named the Knife? Spalding's book centres on the trial of Maryann Acker, who was ... Read More »

January 6, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Doing the Harper shuffle

By Steven W. Beattie

Ordinary working people in the arts community who were miffed by the Conservative government's $45-million cuts to a broad array of arts programs may have reason to breathe a bit easier today. Josée Verner, the ... Read More »

October 30, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Ghetto lit goes mainstream

By Stuart Woods

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 »

October 16, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

David Sedaris and a million little chuckles

By Leigh Anne Williams

There's a minor scandal brewing for American funnyman David Sedaris. Last month in a New Republic piece, Alex Heard called out Sedaris on embellishments and fabrications in several of his non-fiction humour pieces. Most of ... Read More »

April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Beach reads

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's one of our culture's most cherished beliefs that since people don't want to think too hard or get too bummed out in the sunshine, mass-market commercial fiction will hold sway in the summertime. So ... Read More »

May 24, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

TO bookstore goes world-class

By Leigh Anne Williams

Author Jeremy Mercer, who's written a book called about his stint living in the Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Co., has put together a list of his favourite bookstores from around the world for The Guardian.Coming ... Read More »

December 8, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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