Search Results by tag: fiction

15 TIFF films for the literary-minded

You're not going to get close to Brad Pitt, in town this weekend for the premiere of Moneyball, the adaptation of Michael Lewis's baseball book of the same name, but if you're attending the Toronto ... Read More »

September 9, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book links round-up: hidden meanings, rhetorical devices, and more

By Jason Spencer

A psychologist says pronoun usage speaks volumes about one's psyche NASA forms partnership with Tor-Forge Books to assist science fiction writers A New York Times columnist argues about how David Foster Wallace argued Review of ... Read More »

August 23, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book sales down “dramatically” in Q1 of 2011

By Steven W. Beattie

The bad news for booksellers just seems to keep coming. Today, Publishers Weekly reports that Canadian book sales "dropped dramatically" in the first quarter of 2011 according to figures released by BookNet Canada. The market ... Read More »

July 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Edmonton literary magazine launches in Toronto

By Natalie Samson

Eighteen Bridges, the cultural magazine of "narrative journalism and first-person essays" that sprang onto Edmonton's literary scene in October 2010, will make its Toronto debut tonight. A labour of love co-founded by Curtis Gillespie and ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book biz round-up: Anna Porter on the “shaky state” of Canadian publishing, and more

By Sue Carter

Anna Porter on the shaky state of Canadian book publishing Just in time for Lent: James Frey's self-published The Final Testament of the Holy Bible Books you must read, compiled into a neat consensus cloud ... Read More »

March 15, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up: ads in e-books; gay titles vandalized; and more

By Scott MacDonald

Today's book news: Washington Post book critic liked only two fiction titles this year It had to happen: advertisements in e-books ... Read More »

December 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

New literary festival launches pan-Caribbean prize

By Stuart Woods

Authors of Caribbean descent, and fans of world literature, take note: there is a new literary festival taking place next year in Trinidad and Tobago that will celebrate writing from the region. The centrepiece of ... Read More »

November 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Sci-fi in the buff

By Steven W. Beattie

Literary readings range from entertaining to unbearably dull, but in most cases the readers remain clothed. Not so with Naked Girls Reading, an event that goes tonight at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel. NGR kicks off the ... Read More »

July 21, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Barry Hannah, Dr. Seuss, Wayson Choy, Lynn Coady, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links for hump day: Barry Hannah, R.I.P. Want the Dr. Seuss app? (Okay, but do you need it?) Wayson Choy thinks we need to take better care of ourselves Lynn Coady's advice for ... Read More »

March 3, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Blackberry-hating, Harry Potterland, and flying a kite with Khaled Hosseini