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Court rules that authorial persona was fraud

A jury has decided that author Laura Albert's use of the alter ego/pseudonym JT LeRoy constitutes fraud, The New York Times reports. Albert published her novel Sarah in 2000 under the assumed name of JT ... Read More »

June 27, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Gadget watch

By Q&Q Staff

At a Friday seminar, Kris Abel, CTV's resident tech expert, looked at some of the electronic-reading platforms currently on the market and forthcoming. He pointed to: Manybooks.net, which offers e-books in almost any format for ... Read More »

June 9, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Better than Ondaatje?

By Alison Jones

The Independent posted an excerpt of an article originally published in the UK-based Mslexia magazine, in which Danuta Kean discusses the process of bringing great books to the big screen. The article references recent films ... Read More »

April 17, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Reading not quite dead yet

By Leigh Anne Williams

That's the message of a report from the Hamilton, Ontario arts research firm Hill Strategies, based on StatsCan data from 2005. As The Globe and Mail reports, 66% of Canadians reported having read at least ... Read More »

March 29, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Put down the scissors

By Alison Jones

In a post on The Guardian's book blogs, Kathryn Hughes discusses the publication of compact versions of classic novels. Hughes supports the idea of cutting out the “ambling byways, baffling dead-ends and sudden jumps of ... Read More »

February 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

The curse of Confederacy?

By Leigh Anne Williams

Slate's Peter Hyman looks at more than two decades' worth of attempts to bring John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces to the silver screen. The legendary comic novel was published in 1980, 11 years ... Read More »

December 15, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

Reissue! Repackage! Re-evaluate the words!

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the Book Standard website, Bookslut's Jessa Crispin looks at one of the fond traditions of the holiday season -- publishers trying to sell us things we already have. She's referring to new deluxe editions ... Read More »

December 7, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling

The 3-Day Novel Contest on BookTelevision

By Nathan Whitlock

It's reality TV, but it's fiction. Many would argue that all reality television is fiction, but in this case, the digital channel BookTelevision plans to film and broadcast the writing of fiction. The typical writer ... Read More »

September 1, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

HarperCollins continues with Londonstani blitz

By Cassandra Drudi

The Londonstani promotional juggernaut thunders onward and, according to a Globe and Mail story, has now rolled into a couple of GTA theatres. The appearance of Londonstani's book trailer at "the Albion in Etobicoke and ... Read More »

August 16, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling

The most awesome book-to-movie adaptations ever

By Cassandra Drudi

In this week's edition, The Onion A.V. Club laid down 15 book-to-film adaptations that live up to their source material. Some of them are even better than the source material, such as The Godfather, Jaws, ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

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