Search Results by tag: Sexytimes

Fifty Shades of Grey continues sales domination

The public's appetite for vanilla BDSM/repurposed Twilight fan fiction appears to be insatiable. According to the Guardian, E.L. James is the first author to have three books sell more than 100,000 copies apiece in the ... Read More »

June 25, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Russell Smith on sex and Canadian publishing

By Stuart Woods

Globe and Mail columnist Russell Smith offers his thoughts on sex in Canadian publishing. His conclusion? Despite the fact that it is full of "totally unbelievable hotties," overall the industry is surprisingly chaste. The author ... Read More »

June 24, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Salman Rushdie: still banned, still a ladies’ man

By Nathan Whitlock

Given that the Man Booker shortlist has just been announced, and talk of the Bookers often brings to mind author Salman Rushdie, it'd be interesting to know what he's up to these days. Well, there's ... Read More »

September 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Borders U.K. targets bookish singles

By Steven W. Beattie

Quillblogger, with dark hair, eyes, age indeterminate, possessed of a vaguely Byronesque temperament, likes Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Flannery O'Connor, and long walks on the beach. Dislikes Dan Brown novels and anything Twilight-related. Enquiries welcome. Photo preferred. ... Read More »

June 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Can a commercial printer invoke religion in order to refuse services?

By Suzanne Gardner

A blog post on Torontoist yesterday looked at Toronto printer Harmony Printing, and its refusal to produce author Adam Bourret's autobiographical graphic novel I'm Crazy, a story that deals with "histories, secrets, obsessive compulsive disorder, ... Read More »

May 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Deals

Bookmarks: Shopping lists, the iPhone Kindle app, and the $1-million French novel

By Eric Emin Wood

For those who thought the old adage was a joke: William S. Burroughs's shopping list showed up on eBay (and was purchased for $400). Do female novelists write about sex less skillfully than men? Author ... Read More »

March 4, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

British women writers get down ‘n’ dirty

By Steven W. Beattie

What do Fay Weldon, Kathy Lette, and Louise Doughty have in common with the Marquis de Sade, AnaÃ¯s Nin, and Georges Bataille? Stumped? They've all dipped their ink in the well of pornography. The Times ... Read More »

January 12, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

The Twilight guide to battling teen pregnancy

By Nathan Whitlock

The blog Whiskey Fire has directed us to a nutty column by someone named Dr. Miriam Grossman, who feels that Stephenie Myers' Twilight series has a lot to say on the subject of teen sex ... Read More »

December 10, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Updike honoured for a lifetime of bad sex

By Steven W. Beattie

Last week, Quillblog pointed to the Literary Review's shortlist of nominees for the annual Bad Sex Award. Rachel Johnson ended up taking the award “ a bottle of champagne and a plaster foot, which is ... Read More »

December 1, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Bad Sex nominees cover everything from Adam and Eve to the smell of soup

By Steven W. Beattie

Paulo Coelho, John Updike, and Isabel Fonseca are on the shortlist for the one award no writer really wants to receive: the Literary Review's Bad Sex Award. The award “ a plaster foot “ was ... Read More »

November 24, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

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