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CBC | Books News
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Rocker Brian May focuses on 3-D photography
Rock star, astrophysicist and animal rights activist Brian May has revealed a new obsession - stereo photographs.
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Churchill, FDR archives to go online
Archives for two of the Second World War's great leaders - British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt - are to be made available online.
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Lisa Moore nominated for Man Booker Prize
St. John's writer Lisa Moore is one of 13 novelists nominated for the Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious English-language literary awards.
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Toronto poet nominated for U.K. prize
Toronto-based poet Christian Campbell has been shortlisted for Britain's Forward Prize for poetry.
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Faulkner tapes reveal the man and his times
Newly available recordings at the University of Virginia allow people to hear William Faulkner's soft drawl, and listen to him talk about his writing, his career and current events.
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Blyton's Famous Five books get modern makeover
Enid Blyton's Famous Five children's book series, written between 1942 and 1963, are getting an update with modern words and phrases replacing old ones.
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Bookseller of Kabul writer ordered to pay damages
Norwegian war correspondent Asne Seierstad has been ordered to pay $40,000 US in damages to a woman profiled in her book, The Bookseller of Kabul.
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Blind dad feels way through perils of parenting
In his new memoir, C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark, Vancouver's Ryan Knighton uses comedy to feel his way through life as a nearly blind father.
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Costumed fans swarm San Diego for Comic-Con
Movie buffs, comic-book collectors, sci-fi fans and nerds and geeks of all stripes have taken over San Diego for Comic-Con, the southern California city's annual pop culture convention.
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Government launches publishing industry review
The federal government is asking Canadians to share their thoughts on the domestic publishing industry and whether changes need to be made to Canada's foreign investment policy for the book sector.
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Blue Met literary fest founder to retire
Montreal's Blue Metropolis literary festival is launching a search for a new chief, as its founder and artistic director prepares to retire.
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VIDEO: Bryan Lee O'Malley on Scott Pilgrim
Canadian comic artist and writer Bryan Lee O'Malley talks to CBC-TV's Eli Glasner about Scott Pilgrim.
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British rare book thief jailed 3½ years
A man who has twice been convicted of stealing rare books from famous British libraries has been sentenced to 3½ years in jail.
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