Although Margaret Atwood didn't attend Thursday night's marathon Toronto city council executive meeting to address the city's budget deliberations, she was there in spirit and in swag (scroll down the Torontoist's impressive live blog to ... Read More »
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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
New York-based OR Books will publish Tweets from Tahrir, a compilation of Twitter dispatches from Egypt's recent political revolution The nominees for Quebec's best French-language comics include Jeff Lemire's Essex County (trans. Sidonie Van den ... Read More »
March 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
It's been a dismal 24 hours for global bricks-and-mortar booksellers. A day after U.S. chain Borders entered bankruptcy protection, Australia's largest bookstore chain, Angus & Roberts, entered administration, putting in question the future of its ... Read More »
February 17, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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 »
An unpublished poem by Philip Larkin has been discovered 25 years after the British poet's death. A producer working on a documentary about Larkin's romantic relationship with his secretary, Betty Mackereth, spotted the poem, entitled ... Read More »
December 7, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Today's book news: Barack Obama's children's book released while his predecessor faces plagiarism accusations for his own memoir Chinese website apologizes for selling pirated e-books Grand Central Publishing launches imprint for comedian Chelsea Handler The ... Read More »
November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize“winning author of The God of Small Things, has been in the news recently for her outspoken comments about Kashmiri secession from India. Last week, rumours began circulating that the author ... Read More »
November 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
John le Carré, known for spy thrillers such as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, turned 79 this Tuesday. According to MobyLives: He's since gone on to write some of the finest thrillers ... Read More »
October 19, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Okay, so winning the Not the Booker Prize is not like, well, winning the Booker, but we're sure Victoria, B.C. author Mathew Hooton is pleased as punch anyway. His debut novel, Deloume Road, published by ... Read More »
October 12, 2010 | Filed under: Awards