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Surviving the MFA

On the Dooney's Cafe site, John Harris offers a survey of the career of Canadian author Robert Harlow, who was also the head of UBC's creative writing program. The piece argues that too much exposure ... Read More »

September 6, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Craig Davidson: still fighting

By Leigh Anne Williams

You might remember a certain boxing match last fall between Craig Davidson, author of The Fighter, and poet Michael Knox. Well, Davidson's book was just published in the U.S., and this week he fought again ... Read More »

July 26, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

We Scream for CanLit

By Leigh Anne Williams

This year's Scream Literary Festival kicks off in Toronto tonight with a launch at the Gladstone Hotel, featuring poets Dennis Lee, Souvankham Thammavongsa, George Elliott Clarke, and Shapour Shahidi. Now in its 15th year, the ... Read More »

July 3, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Laying out the welcome mat for author Stephen Harper

By Alison Jones

In an article posted on workopolis.com, author Susan Swan welcomes Stephen Harper to the world of publishing by offering him a few tips for his upcoming book on the history of hockey. Swan uses Harper's ... Read More »

April 17, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

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

Canadian books communicate real good

By Alison Jones

In an entry on his Macleans blog from earlier this month, Brian Bethune laments the lapses of grammar in a number of recent Canadian books, using the multiple mistakes found in the Giller-nominated DeNiro’s Game ... Read More »

January 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

James Joyce's grandson sounds like a bit of a jerk

By Cassandra Drudi

Just in time for Bloomsday, Bookninja links to an amusing New Yorker story that documents the grade-A ridiculosity of Stephen James Joyce, James Joyce's grandson and only living descendant. The man who "since the mid-nineteen-eighties...has ... Read More »

June 13, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Peck does it again

By Leigh Anne Williams

Bad-boy book reviewer and author Dale Peck has taken his literary-criticism-as-theatre approach (or perhaps literary criticism as pro wrestling) to its logical conclusion with a new look-at-me stunt. The U.S. website The Morning News asked ... Read More »

April 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Toronto Star apologizes for Bigge

By Scott MacDonald

The most fun In Other Media has had in about two weeks should end with a posting by Toronto Star books editor Dan Smith that went up on the newspaper's website yesterday. In the posting, ... Read More »

February 21, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Booker Prize-winning novels rejected

By Scott MacDonald

An informal investigation conducted by British newspaper The Sunday Times has an amusing and surprising result. Disguising them as manuscripts for new books, the paper sent typewritten copies of the first chapters of two novels ... Read More »

January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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