Less than 24 hours into a September business trip to New York City, three people had already asked Iris Tupholme the same question: how could they land an invitation to the International Visitors (IV) Programme? ... Read More »
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Last call for Encyclopaedia Britannica's print edition boosts sales Kindle Owners' Lending Library boasts 100,000 titles German Nobel laureate Günter Grass pens poem about Israel's threat to world peace Salty Ink interviews poet Kerri Cull about her new collection, ... Read More »
April 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
Your mid-week links party: Apple to face wild west shoot-out in Texas? Henning Mankell okay; calls for sanctions against Israel James Ellroy makes Montreal journalists cower before him Yet more petty behavior by authors in ... Read More »
June 2, 2010 | Filed under: Book links
Margaret Atwood has won the Dan David Prize for Literature: Rendition of the 20th Century. The Canadian author will share the $1 million (U.S.) prize with Indian author Amitav Ghosh, and each winner will share ... Read More »
March 23, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
It's not quite the biggest reward that can be given to a writer (that would be inclusion in Oprah's Book Club, or maybe Richard and Judy's), but the Nobel Prize for Literature is nothing to ... Read More »
In the Israel-Palestine conflict, symbolism is everything. And there is a small tussle going on right now that is so heavy with symbolism, it might as well be an Ingmar Bergman film. At issue is ... Read More »
July 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news