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Douglas Coupland finds Terry Fox’s van

Seriously. The story is that Terry's brother Darrell asked Coupland “ who put together a book-length tribute, Terry, in 2005 “ to keep an eye out for the van, which most people had lost track ... Read More »

May 20, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Books on film

By Jacob Sheen

A quick roundup of newly announced book-to-film adaptations: A new adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is set to hit the screen after a long struggle with Huxley's estate. Leonardo DiCaprio will star and ... Read More »

March 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Alice Munro = Oscars gold

By Stuart Woods

Canadian talent fared well in this year's Oscar nominations, announced this morning. And in case you needed an excuse to catch the February 24 ceremony “ if it happens “ there's a publishing tie-in, too. ... Read More »

January 22, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

The Internet, and other modern horrors

By Stuart Woods

Perhaps in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of blogging, Guy Gavriel Kay has a piece in this past weekend's Globe and Mail Books section about the perils facing authors in the digital age. Gavriel Kay ... Read More »

December 18, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Toronto library cuts add up to next to no savings

By Stuart Woods

The National Post is reporting that a settlement between the Toronto Public Library and its labour union is essentially reversing the savings from the Sunday closure of 16 of the city's libraries, announced earlier this ... Read More »

December 18, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Kindlemania

By Leigh Anne Williams

By now you've no doubt seen the long press release – er, sorry, Newsweek cover story – that announced the launch of the Kindle, Amazon.com's new electronic reader. Elsewhere, though, bloggers and commentators have looked ... Read More »

November 21, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

More on GraSS

By Cassandra Drudi

The fallout from Gunther Grass's SS confessions continues to fly fast and furious, with everyone throwing their two cents at the man, hoping to gouge out an eye or at least chip a tooth. Bookninja ... Read More »

August 15, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

Peck does it again

By Leigh Anne Williams

Bad-boy book reviewer and author Dale Peck has taken his literary-criticism-as-theatre approach (or perhaps literary criticism as pro wrestling) to its logical conclusion with a new look-at-me stunt. The U.S. website The Morning News asked ... Read More »

April 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

McLaren vs. Bigge: Round 2

By Scott MacDonald

Here at In Other Media, controversy makes us as giddy as the recipients of brand new puppies on Valentine's Day morning. In the last month or so, we linked to as many stories on James ... Read More »

February 14, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Colour my bookshelf (absolutely not about James Frey)

By Leigh Anne Williams

Ever walked into a bookstore and noticed that one of the employees was getting cute with the endcaps -- devoting one of them entirely to yellow-covered titles, for instance? In the fall of 2004, San ... Read More »

January 19, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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