The title of the website Angry in the Great White North: News and Opinion is a pretty good hint of what readers are in for, but a recent post by Steve Janke of the “Blogging ... Read More »
January 12, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
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The Story of French (St. Martin's Press) by Canadian authors Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow is reviewed in The New York Times and praised as "a well-told, highly accessible history of the French language that ... Read More »
December 1, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
More good news for Democrats in the U.S. -- Barack Obama's new book, The Audacity of Hope, is a blockbuster #1 hit. The New York Times reports that the Illinois senator has so far sold ... Read More »
November 9, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez not only stirred things up this week with his address to the U.N., in which he referred to President George W. Bush as the devil, he also started an incorrect rumour ... Read More »
September 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Earlier this summer, Quillblog featured a few posts about California senator Sheila Kuehl's attempts to get bill SB 1437 -- which would make it mandatory to "to require that textbooks in California schools detail the ... Read More »
August 9, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
The east London borough of Tower Hamlets is up in arms again against Booker-nominated author Monica Ali and her novel Brick Lane. Now that a movie's in the making, they're really pissed. According to a ... Read More »
July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
With the film adpatation of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation set for release this fall, and Chew on This, an adaptation of the book aimed at kids, new in stores, the American food industry is ... Read More »
June 8, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Last week, In Other Media reported on gay Santa Monica Democrat senator Sheila Kuehl's Bill SB 1437 -- which would pump up the gay, lesbian, and transgender content of Californian textbooks -- passing the Senate ... Read More »
May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
In what appears to be an attempt to keep a lid on the pot of global warming, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has barred Mark Tushingham, a scientist for Environment Canada and the author of the ... Read More »
April 18, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
With Michael Ignatieff eyeing the Liberal Party leadership, we're now facing the possibility of a genuine novelist actually running the country at some point down the road. (Though better known for his non-fiction, Ignatieff has ... Read More »
April 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
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