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Marvelous memoirs ▶ Singer-songwriter, artist, and National Book Award–winning author Patti Smith follows 2010’s Just Kids with a second memoir, M Train (Knopf Canada), which takes a journey through 17 “stations” of the author’s life ... Read More »

July 20, 2015 | Filed under: Preview

U.K. and U.S. celebrate World Book Night; plans for a Canadian version in the works

By Steven W. Beattie

Just Kids by Patti Smith. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Q Is for Quarry by Sue Grafton. While these books may appear to have little in common, ... Read More »

April 9, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Book links round-up: the Nabokovia butterfly, literary bandits, and more

By Jason Spencer

Patti Smith to collaborate with playwright John Logan on screenplay of her memoir Just Kids Odd things named after writers After five decades, a book of lost Dr. Seuss stories to hit shelves this September Rare book ... Read More »

August 16, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book biz round-up: Ian McEwen gets political and more

By Sue Carter

Book news from around the Web: Ian McEwen gets political during award acceptance speech at Jerusalem's international book fair Barnes & Noble reports positive third quarter led by a rise in e-book sales, but still ... Read More »

February 22, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

An indie-spirited rocker and an indie press win the National Book Awards

By Stuart Woods

Musician Patti Smith has won the U.S. National Book Award for non-fiction for Just Kids, a memoir about her youthful relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and her experiences in bohemian New York. Smith, who ... Read More »

November 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Farewell to “punk rock poet” Jim Carroll and mystery writer Lyn Hamilton

By Alison Potstra

Canadian mystery writer Lyn Hamilton passed away last Thursday at the age of 65. The Toronto-based writer, who was known for Chinese Alchemist, The Xibalba Murders and her globe-trotting heroine Lara McClintoch, died of cancer. According ... Read More »

September 15, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Libraries

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