Search Results by tag: Margaret Atwood

New York state of mind

The Toronto Star checks in on McNally Robinson New York, and finds that manager Sarah McNally is displaying such books as Annabel Lyon's The Best Thing for You and Richard B. Wright's Clara Callan, and ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

The unhappy lot of the successful author

By Leigh Anne Williams

Earlier this week we posted a link to a Robert McCrum column decrying the publicity demands that big-time authors must endure. Now, Canadian online commentator Alex Good has weighed in with some perspective, addressing both ... Read More »

January 20, 2005 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Unotchit? We no get it

By Leigh Anne Williams

Margaret Atwood's invention of a remote book-signing machine -- first reported in the January issue of Q&Q and later picked up by The Globe and Mail and The Guardian, among others -- is now starting ... Read More »

January 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The smell of our own

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Guardian reports that Laura Tonnato, an Italian perfume creator, has come up with five new scents designed to evoke specific moments in classic novels. The ones that get the olfactory treatment are Wilde's The ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The school of rocklit

By Leigh Anne Williams

It may be true, as Michael Hearst claims, that "all writers want to be rock stars." But do they truly have rock within them? That's one question posed by this Carl Wilson feature in the ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Work it

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a New York Times Book Review column, Laura Miller ponders the way the world of work is under-represented in literary fiction, concluding that "if the office (or factory or restaurant) is where people find ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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