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Daily links round-up: Google deal aftermath, Lindle lives, and more

The rejected Google deal settlement: what does the rejection really mean? One day after Amazon cut off Lindle's access to its e-book databases, the e-book lender is back up and running Nino Ricci's concern for ... Read More »

March 23, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Mark Twain: dead and kicking

By Alina Seagal

As willed by the author, the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography was released for the first time on Monday, 100 years after his death. Yet even before its release, the Autobiography of Mark Twain, ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Atwood-bashing begins over “Fox News North”

By Stuart Woods

Margaret Atwood is once again lending her name to a worthy cause, and like her support for the environment, brown-bag lunches, and stay-at-home book tours, the celebrated novelist's actions have generated some mild controversy in ... Read More »

September 2, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Tony Blair to donate proceeds from memoir to charity

By Steven W. Beattie

This may be as close as we ever come to getting an admission that joining the war in Iraq was a mistake from one of its prime instigators. The Globe and Mail is reporting that ... Read More »

August 16, 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

Martel’s musical flight of fancy

By Stuart Woods

Yann Martel is no doubt a busy man: not only is the Man Booker Prize“winning author of Life of Pi a new father, he's also promoting his latest novel, Beatrice & Virgil, and fending off ... Read More »

May 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Orlando Figes admits writing anonymous Amazon reviews

By Steven W. Beattie

Earlier this week, Quillblog reported on a British contretemps about an academic's wife who apparently posted a series of vitriolic reviews of her husband's rivals on Amazon using the moniker "Historian." As we noted this ... Read More »

April 23, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Michael Geist’s covert ties to Amazon

By Stuart Woods

[This post has been updated] The debate surrounding Amazon's planned Canadian expansion has produced many arguments both for (the editorial boards at The Globe and Mail and National Post) and against (the Canadian Booksellers Association, ... Read More »

March 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Fear of poetry waning, and the Globe opens the BÃ¶k on lipograms

By Steven W. Beattie

The Huffington Post has taught Quillblog a new word. "Metrophobia" is not an aversion to riding the Paris subway or to well-coiffed men; it refers to a fear of poetry. And apparently, this affliction is ... Read More »

January 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

New Yorker cans short fiction issue

By Steven W. Beattie

On December 4, Douglas Hunter published an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail suggesting that the annual CBC literary smackdown known as Canada Reads is biased against non-fiction: I think it's super that Canadian ... Read More »

December 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

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Search Results by tag: Globe and Mail

Daily links round-up: Google deal aftermath, Lindle lives, and more

Mark Twain: dead and kicking

Atwood-bashing begins over “Fox News North”

Tony Blair to donate proceeds from memoir to charity

Sci-fi in the buff

Martel’s musical flight of fancy

Orlando Figes admits writing anonymous Amazon reviews

Michael Geist’s covert ties to Amazon

Fear of poetry waning, and the Globe opens the BÃ¶k on lipograms

New Yorker cans short fiction issue

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