Wattpad pulls in $3.5 million in new investment
Wattpad, the Toronto-based Internet company that allows readers and writers to connect and share their work online, has completed a… Read More »
View ArticleWhere to watch the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala
Tomorrow night’s Scotiabank Giller Prize awards ceremony will be broadcast live on CBC’s new cable channel Bold at 9 p.m.… Read More »
View ArticleMargaret Atwood illustrates In Other Worlds e-book
Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday U.S., is previewing illustrations from the e-book version of Margaret Atwood’s essay collection… Read More »
View ArticleWislawa Szymborska dead at 88
Poland’s Wislawa Szymborska, the woman the Nobel Prize committee called the “Mozart of poetry,” died in her hometown of Krakow… Read More »
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Five years after finishing life at Hogwarts, J.K. Rowling is back with a new publisher and a book deal for… Read More »
View ArticleAmazon, the iPad, and the culture of reading in an age of distraction
It’s like trying to cook when there are little children around. That’s the assessment of one David Myers, a 53-year-old… Read More »
View ArticleTwitter fuels rumours of American Psycho sequel
It appears that anything Bret Easton Ellis does is bound to provoke fascination and chatter. That includes posting to his… Read More »
View ArticleBook links roundup: Rushdie accuses U.S. government of wanting to destroy...
Salman Rushdie accuses U.S. Department of Justice of “wanting to destroy the world of books” Amazon reports more than two… Read More »
View ArticleShit Girls Say scores book deal with Harlequin
Following in the footsteps of Justin Halpern’s Shit My Dad Says, the popular Twitter feed and YouTube series Shit Girls… Read More »
View ArticleSt. John’s prepares to host first Atlantic Book Awards
For the first time in its almost 13-year history, the Atlantic Book Awards are moving from Halifax. The May 17… Read More »
View ArticleJennifer 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… Read More »
View ArticleFall preview 2012: Canadian non-fiction, part II
The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there’s no shortage of new releases… Read More »
View ArticleHathiTrust ruling bodes well for Google Books, the beef against women...
Does the HathiTrust fair-use ruling suggest victory for Google Books Library Project? Slate tracks the “historical beef against women readers… Read More »
View ArticleWerner Herzog to adapt Vernon God Little, Twitter to host fiction festival,...
Film director Werner Herzog to adapt DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little Twitter to host its first fiction festival in November… Read More »
View ArticlePoll: what’s your favourite Penguin-Random House merger name?
As soon as news broke that Penguin and Random House may merge into a mega-publishing house, social media began musing… Read More »
View ArticleAndrew Pyper story featured in the inaugural Twitter Fiction Festival
Proving that social media is useful for more than stalking celebrities, the world’s first Twitter Fiction Festival kicks off today.… Read More »
View ArticleDeals: Random House Canada acquires Linden MacIntyre novel; ECW to publish...
Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has acquired Canadian English-language rights to Linden MacIntyre’s next novel. The untitled book explores… Read More »
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