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Paper Chase: Fall brings novel from our Ms. Brooks
Brooks: Sept. 8 release (CP)
It's always an event in Canadian literary news when Winnipeg young-adult author Martha Brooks releases a new novel.
Brooks's latest, Queen of Hearts, will be launched by Toronto publisher Groundwood Books at McNally Robinson in Winnipeg on Sept. 8.
The novel, set during the Second World War, is about a teen girl who is confined to a tuberculosis sanatorium.
Brooks has been nominated four times for the Governor General's Literary Award. She won it once, for her 2002 novel True Confessions of a Heartless Girl.
Brooks will also be participating in this year's Thin Air Winnipeg writers festival, Sept. 19-26.
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Winnipeg artist, musician and poet Parvin Shere is to receive the best book prize from literary body Urdu Markaz International in Los Angeles.
Shere is being recognized for her latest book, Raindrops on Parched Land, a collection of poetry in the Urdu language with accompanying paintings. Urdu is the national language and one of the two official languages of Pakistan (the other being English).
Urdu Markaz is a leading sponsor of Urdu literature. The $5,000 award will be presented Oct. 31 in L.A.
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Social networking site Facebook, which boasts some 500 million users worldwide, is suing over the "book" in its name.
Facebook's target is educators' website Teachbook, of Northbrook, Ill. The website's lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and demands a judge order Teachbook to cease and desist using "book" in its name.
A Facebook spokesman told Wired magazine that "there is already a well known online network of people with 'book' in the brand name."
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Jennifer Weiner, author of "chick lit" novels Good in Bed and Best Friends Forever, has launched a campaign against coverage of Jonathan Franzen's new novel, Freedom, which a New York Times review calls a "masterpiece of American fiction."
Weiner has created the hashtag #franzenfreude and made multiple related tweets.
"There are other books," she wrote. She has since received a mass of recommendations, including one from Jodi Picoult, who had earlier criticized the NYT for raving about "white male literary darlings."
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The New York Times made sure to remember a major American novel's 40th birthday this week.
The paper ran a story commemorating Deliverance, James Dickey's 1970 novel that was famously adapted to film by director John Boorman in 1972.
"The book's anniversary shouldn't slip by unnoticed," wrote the article's author, Dwight Garner.
Deliverance concerns four middle-class city dwellers on a canoe trip down a remote Georgia river, who run afoul of malevolent mountain men and the unforgiving nature of the wilderness itself.
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Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 28, 2010 H8
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