Search Results by tag: New York Times

Canadian Jennifer Szalai named New York Times’s new non-fiction critic

Canadian-born Jennifer Ildiko Szalai, a New York Times Book Review editor, has been hired as the paper's new non-fiction critic. A former senior editor at Harper's, Szalai is a graduate of the University of Toronto, ... Read More »

December 11, 2017 | Filed under: Book news

Canadian picture books make New York Times’s Best of 2017 list

By Becky Robertson

Toronto illustrator Sydney Smith makes an appearance on the New York Times’s list of best illustrated children's books of the year for the third year in a row. His 2017 picture book Town Is by the Sea (Groundwood Books), ... Read More »

November 3, 2017 | Filed under: Awards, Children's publishing

Q&A: talking swimming and the Olympics with author Leanne Shapton

By Sue Carter

As a youth, Toronto-born author and illustrator Leanne Shapton was a dedicated competitive swimmer, at one time ranking eighth in Canada. She competed in two Olympic trials (1988, 1992), but narrowly missed qualifying. In her ... Read More »

August 2, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, dies at age 83

By Katie Gowrie

Where the Wild Things Are, 1963 He is known for upending the traditions of American children's fiction - for taking it out of the safe confines of the home and plunging it into darker, more ... Read More »

May 8, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Book links roundup: New generation of Canadian poets, gender and literary fiction, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

The 49th Shelf spotlights a new generation of Canadian poets The New York Times examines the rules of literary fiction for men versus women Publishers Weekly explores concerns about the future of Canadian independent bookselling 10 best practical ... Read More »

April 2, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Amazon, the iPad, and the culture of reading in an age of distraction

By Steven W. Beattie

It's like trying to cook when there are little children around. That's the assessment of one David Myers, a 53-year-old system administrator in Atlanta, regarding the experience of reading a book on the Kindle Fire. ... Read More »

March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Book links roundup: Natalie Portman takes on Judith Krantz, beautiful bookstores, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Natalie Portman is behind a new TV miniseries based on Judith Krantz's steamy novel Scruples Take a peek at 20 of the most beautiful bookstores in the world The New York Times reports Barnes and Noble won't ... Read More »

February 1, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Book links round-up: hidden meanings, rhetorical devices, and more

By Jason Spencer

A psychologist says pronoun usage speaks volumes about one's psyche NASA forms partnership with Tor-Forge Books to assist science fiction writers A New York Times columnist argues about how David Foster Wallace argued Review of ... Read More »

August 23, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Timothy Leary’s papers find a home at the New York Public Library

By Steven W. Beattie

He was perhaps best known for invoking the peace and love generation of the 1960s to "turn on, tune in, drop out," but Timothy Leary, the guru who advocated the mind-enhancing positive effects of LSD, ... Read More »

June 20, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

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