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Memories of World’s Biggest Bookstore

Eye Weekly has a brief history of the World's Biggest Bookstore in downtown Toronto. Apparently, it used to be a bowling alley. (Bring your own tenpins and a bowling ball and it still could be.) ... Read More »

February 27, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Foot in mouth disease

By Alison Jones

A post from The American Prospect reports on a verbal blunder made by one of the New York Times Book Review’s editors, Barry Gewen, at a lecture he gave recently. Gewen, who was introduced by ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Extra-curricular activities

By Nathan Whitlock

Just in case you missed it over the Christmas break, Toronto Star columnist Joey Slinger points out that Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrote an article for the Star on Dec. 23 about the 100th anniversary ... Read More »

January 5, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

The problem with Blitcons

By Nathan Whitlock

Although the famous have come to his defence in the question of plagiarism or fair borrowing as historical research, will anyone defend Ian McEwan from Ziauddin Sardar's charge in New Statesman that he, Martin Amis, ... Read More »

December 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Around the world in a few minutes

By Leigh Anne Williams

Salon has launched "The Literary Guide to the World," a series of writeups about books about specific places, organized in map format. (And it's all a promotional tie-in with the Travel Channel, it seems.)Writes Salon's ... Read More »

June 16, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Beach reads

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's one of our culture's most cherished beliefs that since people don't want to think too hard or get too bummed out in the sunshine, mass-market commercial fiction will hold sway in the summertime. So ... Read More »

May 24, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Pornhounds can recommend books, too

By Cassandra Drudi

Everyone knows who to consult when it comes to good literature: The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Q&Q… But where does one find sexy book recommendations? Why, Playboy, of course!The venerable ... Read More »

May 18, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Fairytales of New York

By Leigh Anne Williams

The CBC Arts website has a strong profile of Jay McInerney, whose post-9/11 novel, The Good Life, has been getting much press. The piece is notable for its discussion of the changing character of New ... Read More »

February 23, 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

Banville beats Booker odds

By Scott MacDonald

Last night, in a ceremony in London's Guildhall, Irish novelist John Banville beat seven-to-one odds and brought home his first Man Booker Prize for a melancholy study on old age, love, and grief, The Sea. ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: history

Memories of World’s Biggest Bookstore

Foot in mouth disease

Extra-curricular activities

The problem with Blitcons

Around the world in a few minutes

Beach reads

Pornhounds can recommend books, too

Fairytales of New York

Toronto Star apologizes for Bigge

Banville beats Booker odds

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