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Margaret Atwood receives Innovator’s Award

The Los Angeles Times has announced that Margaret Atwood will be presented with the fourth annual Innovator's Award for her efforts to push narrative form. From the press release: From her earliest works, in which ... Read More »

February 22, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Book links: Ondaatje nominated for L.A. Times Book Prize, DeLillo and Banks up for PEN/Faulkner, and more

By Sue Carter

Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table nominated for Los Angeles Times Book Prize Don DeLillo and Russell Banks among finalists for 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive becomes first book project on ... Read More »

February 21, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Book links roundup: David Foster Wallace, Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Doubleday Canada publishing director Lynn Henry on making the first English-language acquisition of Karen Thompson Walker's much-hyped debut novel, The Age of Miracles Booksellers outraged that posthumous David Foster ... Read More »

March 31, 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

Bookmarks: the best book title of the year, Kim Echlin’s favourite tunes, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: The Los Angeles Times calls Judy Wearing's Edison's Concrete Piano: Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors (published this month by ECW Press) the ... Read More »

November 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Jeremy Tankard in the L.A. Times

By Nathan Whitlock

Grumpy Bird author/illustrator Jeremy Tankard recently chatted with Sonja Bolle of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some highlights: SB: Is Grumpy Bird based on anyone in your life? JT: I'd probably be in trouble ... Read More »

June 17, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Tintin, The Hobbit and Goosebumps: coming soon to a theatre near you: UPDATED

By Steven W. Beattie

The imminent end of the Harry Potter film franchise “ the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II is scheduled for release in 2011 “ has Hollywood types scurrying to secure other ... Read More »

May 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Serialized novel 2.0?

By Eric Emin Wood

The return of the serialized novel has been trumpeted before (notably by this very blog), and James Patterson made headlines recently with his chain thriller, Airborne. But The Los Angeles Times has combined the two. Yesterday, the ... Read More »

April 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The IMDB of publishing?

By Eric Emin Wood

The Los Angeles Times reports on a beta website, filedbyauthor.com, which aims to create Web pages (1.8 million so far) for just about every author who's ever existed, including a bio, links, and a list ... Read More »

March 31, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: a blog relaunches, a novel is rediscovered, and a nobel laureate gets skewered

By Stuart Woods

Some book-related links: Noble laureate Jean-Marie Le Clézio faces the inevitable backlash Five poets write The New York Times op-ed page A scandalous novel by Kerouac and Burroughs sees the light of day (excerpted here) ... Read More »

November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

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Search Results by tag: Los Angeles Times

Margaret Atwood receives Innovator’s Award

Book links: Ondaatje nominated for L.A. Times Book Prize, DeLillo and Banks up for PEN/Faulkner, and more

Book links roundup: David Foster Wallace, Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker, and more

Mark Twain: dead and kicking

Bookmarks: the best book title of the year, Kim Echlin’s favourite tunes, and more

Jeremy Tankard in the L.A. Times

Tintin, The Hobbit and Goosebumps: coming soon to a theatre near you: UPDATED

Serialized novel 2.0?

The IMDB of publishing?

Bookmarks: a blog relaunches, a novel is rediscovered, and a nobel laureate gets skewered

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