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CanLitThe ColophonWriters and Writing

Fail better: Stephen Marche on the one constant in a writer’s life

February 7, 2023February 7, 2023

Failure is inevitable because perfection is unattainable.

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BooksellingFilmThe ColophonWriters and Writing

Around the web: Standing up for morally ambiguous characters, a romance novelist fakes her own death, RIP Russell Banks, and more

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023

Heading into 2023, it appears that inflation, which is being felt particularly where hardcovers are concerned, has booksellers nervous about purchasing patterns over the coming months.

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PublishingThe Horror ShowWriters and Writing

With “The Heart of a Pig,” novelist and book columnist James Grainger resurrects the serial format

January 13, 2023January 13, 2023

Grainger's horror Substack, The Veil, is parcelling out the longish story in several instalments.

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PoliticsThe ColophonWriters and Writing

Canadian government extends copyright term, but loses the plot

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023

The extension of the copyright term by twenty years – or fifty, or one hundred years – is meaningless if educational institutions remain free to pillage copyright works with impunity.

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PublishingReadingThe ColophonWriters and Writing

The loss of Bookforum makes a tough environment for longform book criticism even tougher

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022

The loss represents another in the death of a thousand cuts that is unfolding in the arena of print journals and magazines.

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International LiteratureThe ColophonWriters and Writing

In a slim and idiosyncratic mix of essay and memoir, Haruki Murakami muses on the writing life

November 10, 2022November 10, 2022

All of the essays find Murakami writing in a first-person, confessional style about matters that interest him as a novelist.

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CanLitThe ColophonWriters and Writing

Saeed Teebi helps put U of T’s School of Continuing Studies on the CanLit prize map

November 8, 2022November 8, 2022

"The more conscious you are, the more intentional you are about writing, the better you understand why your own stories work or don't," Teebi says.

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TechnologyThe ColophonWriters and Writing

“The grab continues”: TWUC joins the U.S. Authors Guild and other international organizations in filing an amicus brief in the lawsuit against the Internet Archive’s Open Library initiative

August 17, 2022August 17, 2022

"IA is trying to paint this lawsuit as giant corporations (publishers) going after the little guy, but we see it as the opposite."

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CensorshipThe ColophonWriters and Writing

Iran blames Rushdie for public attack; Scotland police investigating a threat to J.K. Rowling

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022

An online poster told Rowling, "don't worry you are next."

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CensorshipThe ColophonWriters and Writing

Early reports indicate Salman Rushdie attacked in New York

August 12, 2022August 12, 2022

The author, who spent years in the 1980s and ’90s in hiding from an Iranian death sentence, was preparing to give a speech when he was assaulted.

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