Archive for the ‘Literary News’ Category

In the News: Red Riding Hood

It’s been a while sine I’ve jumped into the papers and pulled something out of there for discussion.  I’m not sure if that’s because I couldn’t find anything interesting or I’m really slacking here.  But I found something that was really interesting in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record.  This one all about Little Red Riding Hood and [...]

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Canada Reads – Day 2

When Canada Reads starts up it seems to be over just as quickly. With that in mind I try to savor every minute of the debates. Today, again, I feel that we have a wonderful group of people on the panel and I really like Nicolas Campbell’s strategy.
In day two there seemed to [...]

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Let the Games Begin

Wow, it’s that time of the year again. CBC is gearing up for it’s yearly Canada Reads competition. I always look forward to debates that happen on CBC radio 1 to see what the defenders of each book has to say about the novels. When I get a chance to read the [...]

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Sad News in the Literary World

After jumping from one news sight to the next I didn’t come across this article until got to the Toronto Star.  That’s right CBC and CNN didn’t have this article highlighted.
Author John Updike dies at 76

Jan 27, 2009 02:01 PM
Hillel Italie
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK – John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters [...]

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