Search Results by tag: The Atlantic

Richards, Thurston, Goyette win Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia Awards

New Brunswick author David Adams Richards was the big winner at this year's Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia Awards, which were presented Oct. 12 at a ceremony in Halifax. Richards received the $20,000 Thomas Head ... Read More »

October 15, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Women can’t have it all, but Anne-Marie Slaughter can get a book deal

By Sue Carter

Yesterday, Random House announced it acquired a book by Anne-Marie Slaughter, based on her controversial article, Why Women Still Can't Have It All, which was the cover story in the July/August issue of The Atlantic. ... Read More »

July 18, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Book links roundup: Police sketches of literary characters, Bookninja’s send-off, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

The Atlantic on literary characters' police composite sketches The National Post bids farewell to Bookninja Hot off her CBC Canada Reads win Carmen Aguirre performs her one-woman show based on her memoir Something Fierce Extremely ... Read More »

February 10, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Book links roundup: Largehearted Boy celebrates 10 years, the greatest books of all time, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Largehearted Boy celebrates 10 years of book and music blogging at Brooklyn's Word Bookstore The Atlantic lists greatest books of all time as voted by 125 famous authors J.D. Salinger's Franny, Graham Greene's Maurice Bendrix, and ... Read More »

February 2, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Where to watch the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala

By Sue Carter

Tomorrow night's Scotiabank Giller Prize awards ceremony will be broadcast live on CBC's new cable channel Bold at 9 p.m. (EST), followed by a rebroadcast on the same channel at 11:05 p.m. For viewers with ... Read More »

November 7, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

U.K. poets band together to protest cuts

By Steven W. Beattie

It's National Poetry Month here in Canada, an annual initiative by the League of Canadian Poets to bring public attention to poetry. But across the Atlantic, the beginning of April more closely resembles T.S. Eliot's ... Read More »

April 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Harry Potter, Dan Brown dominate U.K. list of best-selling books

By Steven W. Beattie

The stereotype has it that England is filled with recondite literati ensconced in mahogany-lined libraries reading leather-bound volumes of Romantic poetry and plump Victorian novels. This as compared to the beer-swilling philistines in America, gorging ... Read More »

January 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

The Atlantic kindles a new relationship with Amazon

By Steven W. Beattie

Edna O'Brien, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Paul Theroux are among the writers who will be making their short fiction available exclusively to Kindle users thanks to a new deal between online retailer Amazon.com and the general ... Read More »

December 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Authors challenge the idea of a national literature

By Suzanne Gardner

Canadian authors Margaret Atwood and Anne Michaels, along with Britain's Monica Ali and Ireland's Joseph O'Neill, have contributed their thoughts on the idea of a national literature to The Atlantic's Fiction 2009 special issue, created ... Read More »

July 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Take that, Stephenie Meyer!

By Steven W. Beattie

It may not star the young wizard from Hogwarts, but J.K. Rowling's latest book, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, has become the fastest-selling title of 2008. According to Reuters (by way of the National ... Read More »

December 17, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

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