Search Results by tag: Shakespeare

Gillian Flynn, Tracy Chevalier, and Jo Nesbo added to Hogarth Shakespeare series

Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), Tracy Chevalier (The Girl with the Pearl Earring), and Jo Nesbø (The Son) are the latest authors to be added to the Hogarth Shakespeare series. The series, which features contemporary interpretations ... Read More »

September 29, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Such stuff as dreams are made on: Atwood updates Shakespeare for modern readers

By Steven W. Beattie

Never let it be said that Margaret Atwood is one to shy away from a challenge. The author of The Handmaid's Tale and the just-released MaddAddam has already updated Homer in The Penelopiad, a feminist ... Read More »

September 9, 2013 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Alternative markets: why publishers are turning to zine fairs to woo new readers

By Jason Spencer

Canzine, the country's largest festival dedicated to zines and independent culture, happens this Sunday in Toronto (the Vancouver edition is scheduled for Nov. 17). Following the success of last year's event, writer Jason Spencer spoke ... Read More »

October 19, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Book links roundup: Beautiful Disaster film finds studio, Fifty Shades outsells Harry Potter, and more

By Katie Gowrie

Warner Bros. wins bidding war for film rights to Jamie McGuire's YA novel Beautiful Disaster Fifty Shades series outsells Harry Potter on Amazon U.K. Bodleian Library attempts to put first collected edition of Shakespearean plays ... Read More »

August 2, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

New app features Jean-Luc Picard, Dr. Who reading Shakespeare’s sonnets

By Natalie Samson

The minds behind the best-selling iPad app adaptation of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (and the periodic table of elements, if you swing that way) are now offering mobile users the chance to hear William ... Read More »

July 27, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Book links roundup: Indigo CEO says physical books are surviving digital age, classic books get bold makeovers, and more

By Katie Gowrie

Heather Reisman: physical books still thriving in the digital age Classic books given new looks to lure the "Twilight" generation Amazon partners with Co-operative Food retail outlets in London to install delivery pick-up lockers Faber ... Read More »

June 28, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Book links roundup: Saddam Hussein’s daughter seeks publisher, World e-Reading Congress happenings, and more

By Katie Gowrie

Saddam Hussein's daughter seeks publisher her for father's memoirs Print books endorsed at World e-Reading Congress Amazon shareholders meeting disturbed by tax protests Robert Pattinson to play Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games sequel Shakespeare's ... Read More »

May 25, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Book links roundup: Theo Fleury memoir adapted for stage, library sued over e-reader lending, and more

By Katie Gowrie

Theo Fleury's Playing with Fire now a one-man play Free Library of Philadelphia in lawsuit over e-reader lending program U.K. ... Read More »

May 7, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Howard Jacobson says call to ban Israeli theatre group “treasonable” to artists

By Steven W. Beattie

Novelist Howard Jacobson has written an open letter to The Observer criticizing a group of actors, playwrights, and directors who suggested that Israel's national theatre company, Habima, should not be allowed to perform at the ... Read More »

April 9, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

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

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Search Results by tag: Shakespeare

Gillian Flynn, Tracy Chevalier, and Jo Nesbo added to Hogarth Shakespeare series

Such stuff as dreams are made on: Atwood updates Shakespeare for modern readers

Alternative markets: why publishers are turning to zine fairs to woo new readers

Book links roundup: Beautiful Disaster film finds studio, Fifty Shades outsells Harry Potter, and more

New app features Jean-Luc Picard, Dr. Who reading Shakespeare’s sonnets

Book links roundup: Indigo CEO says physical books are surviving digital age, classic books get bold makeovers, and more

Book links roundup: Saddam Hussein’s daughter seeks publisher, World e-Reading Congress happenings, and more

Book links roundup: Theo Fleury memoir adapted for stage, library sued over e-reader lending, and more

Howard Jacobson says call to ban Israeli theatre group “treasonable” to artists

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

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