Search Results by tag: David Sedaris

Davidar tells his side of the story

Former Penguin Canada president David Davidar has hit back at claims by ex-employee Lisa Rundle that he had sexually harassed her over a three-year period. Via his lawyer, Peter Downard, Davidar released a lengthy statement ... Read More »

June 21, 2010 | Filed under: Industry news

Bookmarks: Shakespeare, Waugh, Sedaris, Seinfeld, Bush

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Stolen Shakespeare folio recovered in U.S. (Dallas Morning News) The battle over Brideshead Revisited (Times Online) David Sedaris in Ottawa (The Ottawa Citizen) Latest round in the Seinfeld cookbook fight (The New ... Read More »

July 14, 2008 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Bookmarks: David Sedaris, Gotti’s daughter, and Baghdad’s National Library

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Rick Mercer interviews David Sedaris (The Globe and Mail) HarperCollins to sue Victoria Gotti over unwritten memoir (NY Daily News) Meet the director of Baghdad's National Library (The Guardian) Antique book hunt ... Read More »

June 9, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

David Sedaris: survivor

By Scott MacDonald

A new collection of David Sedaris essays “ entitled When You Are Engulfed in Flames “ comes out next week, and Entertainment Weekly has used the opportunity to check in with the humorist and to ... Read More »

May 30, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

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

Mean people suck

By Leigh Anne Williams

Newsflash: sometimes bloggers say mean things. Seems Canadian author Hal Niedzviecki has been Googling himself and finding some unflattering comments floating around the blogosphere, and he’s worked out how he feels about this in a ... Read More »

January 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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