Search Results by tag: The New Yorker

Jennifer Egan short story to be serialized on Twitter

Starting tonight, Jennifer Egan's latest short story, "Black Box," will be tweeted by The New Yorker's fiction department (@NYerFiction) over 10 nightly instalments. The story will appear in its entirety in the magazine's June 4 ... Read More »

May 24, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Alice Munro leads literary programming at this year’s Luminato

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Luminato, one of Toronto's biggest annual cultural festivals, has announced a rare appearance by Alice Munro, who will be interviewed onstage June 10 by Deborah Treisman, fiction editor for The New Yorker. Running from June ... Read More »

March 14, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Edmonton literary magazine launches in Toronto

By Natalie Samson

Eighteen Bridges, the cultural magazine of "narrative journalism and first-person essays" that sprang onto Edmonton's literary scene in October 2010, will make its Toronto debut tonight. A labour of love co-founded by Curtis Gillespie and ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

New online writing community geared toward teens

By Steven W. Beattie

Parents and educators spend a lot of time, and spill a lot of ink, debating how to get teenagers interested in reading. Anyone who stops to think about the phenomenal success of Stephenie Meyers' Twilight ... Read More »

December 6, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Daily book biz round-up: iPad security breach; on reading New Yorker fiction; and more

By Scott MacDonald

Book news pour vous: Early iPad adopters exposed to massive security breach Barbara Kingsolver wins Orange Prize Atwood to headline Frye Festival in 2011 Only female candidate for Oxford professor of poetry position withdraws from ... Read More »

June 10, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Daily book biz round-up: how to edit a Summer Fiction issue; Glenn Beck makes incredibly bad book choice; and more

By Scott MacDonald

Some quick news hits to kick-start your week: The New Yorker editors on assembling the new Summer Fiction issue (plus Q&As with the "20 under 40") Glenn Beck's latest reading recommendation the work of a ... Read More »

June 7, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Daily book biz round-up: Stieg Larsson big in digital; new iPhone to include iBookstore; and more

By Scott MacDonald

News to round out your week with: Almost 30% of first-week sales of Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest are e-books A refreshingly candid response to The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 ... Read More »

June 4, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Daily book biz round-up: Target to sell Kindle; props to Galchen and Bezmozgis; and more

By Scott MacDonald

Browse and click! Canadians Rivka Galchen and David Bezmozgis make The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 list New copyright legislation gets tough about breaking digital encryption locks Target to become first brick-and-mortar retailer to sell ... Read More »

June 3, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

New Yorker cans short fiction issue

By Steven W. Beattie

On December 4, Douglas Hunter published an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail suggesting that the annual CBC literary smackdown known as Canada Reads is biased against non-fiction: I think it's super that Canadian ... Read More »

December 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Bookmarks: Generic Wizard Nights, a feline Humbert Humbert, and more

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: The Ontario Library Association has announced the nominees for the 2010 Forest of Reading Program. Votes can be cast for your favourite authors at the OLA's website. Participants have ... Read More »

October 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: The New Yorker

Jennifer Egan short story to be serialized on Twitter

Alice Munro leads literary programming at this year’s Luminato

Edmonton literary magazine launches in Toronto

New online writing community geared toward teens

Daily book biz round-up: iPad security breach; on reading New Yorker fiction; and more

Daily book biz round-up: how to edit a Summer Fiction issue; Glenn Beck makes incredibly bad book choice; and more

Daily book biz round-up: Stieg Larsson big in digital; new iPhone to include iBookstore; and more

Daily book biz round-up: Target to sell Kindle; props to Galchen and Bezmozgis; and more

New Yorker cans short fiction issue

Bookmarks: Generic Wizard Nights, a feline Humbert Humbert, and more

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