
- Canadian fiction spring preview at CBC covers some big books, including some friends and what is already shaping up to be the book of the year, The Maid, by Nita Pronovost…. Though instantly-sellable title of the year just HAS to go to a book called “Sari, Not Sari”… I mean, come ON;
- NEA Fellows in writing are all prose this time;
- UK books sales highest in a decade… but are they being read?;
- Not in America….;
- Happy 100th birthday, Ulysses, you difficult old bastard of a book;
- Mystery Writers of America grants special awards;
- Booker Prize jury announced;
- Peruvian publisher and author receive support after defamation case;
- UBC nabs rare Willie Shakes book;
- What are your desert island books?;
- Do you look up unfamiliar words when reading? I do…. Less so these days, now that I’m older and better read, but sometimes still;
- Today in Floof: old words we should consider bringing back into use;