PAPER CHASE: World Book Night may make history
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ORGANIZERS claim it may be history’s single biggest literary event. World Book Night kicks off March 4 in London’s Trafalgar Square and expects 10,000 attendees, according to The Guardian in England.
The free event will feature readings from British authors John le Carré and Philip Pullman, Australian rock star Nick Cave and Canada’s own Margaret Atwood.
Hundreds of events will take place around the U.K. on World Book Night itself, March 5. Over a million books will be given away, including Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Blind Assassin.
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McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg is considering purchasing an Espresso print-on-demand machine like the one recently unveiled at McNally Jackson in New York.
“We’re studying it,” store co-owner Paul McNally said, but there are no firm plans.
The machine, which allows for the printing of single copies at minimal cost, is seen as a boon for both back-list and self-published titles, which stores don’t like devoting valuable shelf space to.
McNally Jackson, owned by McNally daughter Sarah and her husband, made headlines in New York when it held an event to introduce the Espresso machine in the store earlier this month.
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Perhaps a new scribe can help save the beleaguered US$65-million Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
The production was pushed back a fifth time to a March 15 opening night, after receiving scathing early reviews.
However, according to Hollywood insider blog Deadline.com, writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa — who’s written issues of Spider-Man for Marvel Comics — has been hired to rewrite the musical’s book.
Aguirre-Sacasa most recently wrote a new book to the Charles Strouse/Lee Adams musical It’s a Plane, It’s Superman!
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Several illustrious titles and authors made this year’s short list for the $7,500 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, to be announced in April.
The finalists are Ghosted by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall; The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton; Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco, which won the Man Asian Literary Prize; Cool Water by Dianne Warren, winner of this year’s Governor General’s fiction prize; and Kathleen Winter’s Giller Prize-nominated Annabel.
This year is the Amazon award’s 35th anniversary; former recipients include Michael Ondaatje, W.P. Kinsella, Rohinton Mistry and Winnipeg’s own Joan Thomas, who won for Reading by Lightning in 2009. Thomas is one of this year’s nominating jurors.
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Why do so few writers from other mediums try writing for video games?
After all, as The Guardian blogger Sam Jordison recently observed, “You might think that this relatively new, rapidly developing art form would be exciting and fertile territory for authors.”
Perhaps it’s because, according to Jordison, most computer-game writing is simply bad.
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