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Book links roundup: Winnipeg comedian’s Shades of Grey parody takes off, Target discontinues selling Kobo Touch, and more

Winnipeg comedian Ryan McMahon's tweeted novel Powwow Shades of Grey is taking off Target no longer carries the Kobo Touch Vanity Fair publishes Christopher Hitchens' foreword to George Orwell's diaries Peter Jackson tells Comic-Con audience ... Read More »

July 16, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

By Steven W. Beattie

Critic, gadfly, supporter of the Iraq war, misogynist, atheist. Christopher Hitchens was all these things. He was also one of the most erudite and plain-spoken writers of his day, possessed of intelligence, wit, and interests ... Read More »

December 16, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Awards, immigrant lit, and Vanity Fair: Marchand's year in review

By Scott MacDonald

On the Toronto Star website, books columnist Philip Marchand begins a CanLit-year-in-review piece, somewhat surprisingly, with a lengthy discussion of British novelist Ian McEwan's Saturday. Set in the present, McEwan's issue-driven novel is used as ... Read More »

January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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