Clicking through The New York Times online this morning, Quillblog happened upon this article about a "surprise best seller," The Shack. The novel, written by William P. Young, is a mosaic story of one man's ... Read More »
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Recent Commonwealth Prize winner Lawrence Hill has an essay/review on black writing in the latest issue of Bookforum. Writing about the books his daughters are required to read in school, he notes that "one and ... Read More »
Q&Q contributor Sarah Weinman outlines her troubles with the whole notion of getting books signed in a blog entry on the Guardian site: The last vestiges of excitement about inscriptions disappeared when I became a ... Read More »
Experimental French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet has been dead for only a few weeks, but it looks as if the touching eulogy phase is already over. Salon has just posted an essay by Canadian author Stephen ... Read More »
Defences of the old-skool paper-and-ink book against the nefarious Borg-like proponents of the e-book too often sound, for all their passion and sincerity, as if they should be read aloud by Wilfred Brimley, or even ... Read More »
"Few people who spend much time in the literary world emerge without at least one paranoid conspiracy theory," writes Mark Lawson in The Guardian. Hard to disagree with that. His own theory as to what ... Read More »
January 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries, Opinion
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 »
The answer is "yes," according to Bits, The New York Times's tech blog: For years it was impossible to even suggest that Amazon buy eBay because eBay's market value was three or four times that ... Read More »
December 17, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling, Opinion
Reactions to Amazon's new e-reader generally fall into two opposing camps: on the one hand, there are those who are shocked and appalled at the very notion, while others believe a wonderful new era has ... Read More »
From The Guardian: The inanities of the internet have seduced a generation, and we live in a fragmenting culture where people read nothing and know nothing of the world, the new Nobel laureate novelist Doris ... Read More »
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