Category: publishing

Everything you need to set up your own book club…

“The finalists for the $50,000 prize, which celebrates the best Canadian work of fiction in English (or translated into English) of the past year,” include humorist Will Ferguson, memoirist Kim Thuy, novelists Alix Ohlin and Nancy Richler (second cousin to Mordecai), and journalist/short story author Russell Wangersky.

“A campaign by the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and a number of other literary names to stop the destruction of hundreds of thousands of books at the UK’s largest municipal library appeared to have succeeded.”

“Jorie Graham has become the first American woman ever to win one of the UK’s most prestigious poetry accolades, the Forward prize for best collection, beating Oxford’s professor of poetry Geoffrey Hill to take the £10,000 award.”

“Such a review will usually run somewhere between 500 and 1,500 words. Before publication, it will be subjected to a prolonged and intense process of subediting. Crucially, it will be signed, and usually paid for. … None of this guarantees that such a review will not be savage, destructive, ad hominem or partisan, but it will be considered”.

Students (and parents) everywhere rejoice. But what will happen next?

The 17th century – and Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

October, 1924: “As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.” (Two more sentences, and it’s done.)

Tuscon school officials last year claimed that they simply removed books from classrooms temporarily – but make no mistake, says author Jeff Biggers, those books are still banned.

It was well-received in France – Jauffret reaches “the heights of mastery”, wrote one reviewer; “a tour de force of incredible strength”, said another – but its publication in Austria earlier this month has provoked a series of vituperative write-ups.