Fail better: Stephen Marche on the one constant in a writer’s life
Failure is inevitable because perfection is unattainable.
Around the web: Standing up for morally ambiguous characters, a romance novelist fakes her own death, RIP Russell Banks, and more
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.
With “The Heart of a Pig,” novelist and book columnist James Grainger resurrects the serial format
Grainger's horror Substack, The Veil, is parcelling out the longish story in several instalments.
Canadian government extends copyright term, but loses the plot
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.
The loss of Bookforum makes a tough environment for longform book criticism even tougher
The loss represents another in the death of a thousand cuts that is unfolding in the arena of print journals and magazines.
In a slim and idiosyncratic mix of essay and memoir, Haruki Murakami muses on the writing life
All of the essays find Murakami writing in a first-person, confessional style about matters that interest him as a novelist.
Saeed Teebi helps put U of T’s School of Continuing Studies on the CanLit prize map
"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.
“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
"IA is trying to paint this lawsuit as giant corporations (publishers) going after the little guy, but we see it as the opposite."
Iran blames Rushdie for public attack; Scotland police investigating a threat to J.K. Rowling
An online poster told Rowling, "don't worry you are next."
Early reports indicate Salman Rushdie attacked in New York
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.