Search Results by tag: McSweeney's

McSweeney’s publishing goes non-profit

Dave Eggers' San Francisco−based publishing house, McSweeney's, is slated to become a non-profit organization within the next year, joining the list of the author's other non-profit initiatives: 826, ScholarMatch, and Voice of Witness. Eggers told ... Read More »

October 16, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Book links roundup: Oprah’s book club is back, Amazon granted “electronic gifting” patent, and more

By Katie Gowrie

The return of Oprah's book club Amazon gets patent on "electronic gifting" Author and educator Earl Shorris dies at 75 Philippa Gregory's novels to be adapted for TV by BBC Rare Tintin cover sells for ... Read More »

June 4, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Book links roundup: Guerrilla libraries, Canadian Bookshelf rebrands, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Architecture student John Locke turns New York phone booths into mini guerrilla libraries Amazon.ca lead sponsor for rebranding of Canadian Bookshelf as the 49th Shelf Musician Kanye West listed in acknowledgements of V. S. Naipaul ... Read More »

February 23, 2012 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Book biz round-up: travelling literary journals, McSweeney’s cooks, and more

By Sue Carter

Travelling literary journals are hiding in Toronto coffee joints U.K. singer Kate Bush receives permission to use quotes from Joyce's Ulysses, and it only took 20 years Well before Williamsburg, Famous authors and their typewriters ... Read More »

April 5, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Obama, Rumsfeld books set for winter release

By Natalie Samson

Simon & Schuster unveiled the cover for O: A Presidential Novel, an anonymously authored novel about U.S. president Barack Obama. The cover features a gold "O" bookended by a pair of protruding ears against a ... Read More »

January 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up, April 16

By Scott MacDonald

Your end-of-the-week news fix: Brits stiffen upper lips and stand up to volcano for the glory and honour of England U.S. publishing folks rush to take credit for Pulitzer-winning Tinkers Amazon caves (somewhat) on royalty ... Read More »

April 16, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

McSweeney’s mysterious namesake dies at 67

By Laura Godfrey

McSweeney's Quarterly has announced on its website that Timothy McSweeney, the man for whom Dave Eggers named the literary journal, died on Jan. 24 at age 67. In a letter, the McSweeney family wrote that ... Read More »

February 9, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Four magazines die, a classic threatened (again), and the two-timing ways of Archie Andrews

By Alison Potstra

Bookish links from around the Web: The foodie bride's lament: Condé Nast-owned magazines Gourmet, Cookie, Elegant Bride, and Modern Bride all cease publication More book banning madness: Toronto parent wants Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird ... Read More »

October 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book links, Book news

Bookmarks: 1,000 novels everyone must read, toilet poems, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

The Guardian has created a list of 1000 novels everyone must read, broken down into categories like comedy, crime, family and self, and state of the nation. In considering the list, Stuart Walton wonders whether ... Read More »

January 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: critic saves Nabokov novel, senator saves writer’s home, but nothing could save Duddy Kravitz musical

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Did a Slate critic help save Nabokov's last novel from the flames? (Slate) Ontario senator helps save Joy Kogawa's childhood home (CBC.ca) Duddy Kravitz: The Musical was doomed from the start “ ... Read More »

April 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

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