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The gospel according to Dan Brown

New York Times columnist Ross Douhat (who does not look at all like David Brent ... well, maybe just a little) believes that Dan Brown's novels are successful not just because the books are cheesy ... Read More »

May 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book culture, Opinion

More bad news for American book coverage

By Scott MacDonald

It looks like the rumors were true about The Washington Post's standalone book supplement. According to The New York Times, Book World will cease publication after Feb. 15. Book World was one of the last ... Read More »

January 28, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Anosh Irani in the NYT

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

An op-ed piece by Canadian novelist and playwright Anosh Irani appears online in The New York Times today. Irani, who was born in Mumbai, writes about the seige of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel during ... Read More »

December 2, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Opinion

Nobel jury head slams U.S. authors

By Scott MacDonald

According to The Guardian, Nobel jury head Horace Engdahl has got a bit of a hate-on for U.S. authors, describing U.S. writing as "insular and ignorant": Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl told ... Read More »

October 1, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Opinion

Dying is easy, launching a small press is hard

By Stuart Woods

Editor and author John Warner has a lengthy post on Maud Newton's blog about the non-success of his fledgling publishing enterprise, TOW Books, a humour imprint that was supposed to make him the Judd Apatow ... Read More »

September 10, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Opinion

Lytton’s had enough!

By Sara Forsyth

The winner of the 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the worst opening line of an imaginary novel was announced last week (the winner wrote something about passion in a New York City taxi). However, ... Read More »

August 19, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

A few favourite CanLit covers

By Q&Q Staff

Entertainment Weekly recently compiled a list of the 25 most memorable book covers from the past 25 years. Their list is slightly skewed toward ubiquitous mega-designer Chip Kidd, who scores six entries. The lone Canadian ... Read More »

July 9, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Teacher suspended over Freedom Writers

By Scott MacDonald

A teacher in Indiana has been suspended without pay for 18 months for using The Freedom Writers Diary, a widely lauded collection of biographical stories written by inner-city teenagers, as part of her curriculum. For ... Read More »

July 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Loading the canon

By Nathan Whitlock

There is nothing “ aside from the sight of paint drying, perhaps “ quite like the creation of fantasy CanLit canons. On Canada Day, The Globe and Mail had a number of people “ mostly ... Read More »

July 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

A call to blog

By Scott MacDonald

Every author with even an ounce of self-promotional instinct seems to have a blog these days, but how many editors and publishers do? According to Booksquare blogger Kassia Kroszer, the whole publishing industry needs to ... Read More »

June 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

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