The Toronto-based publisher is airing a series of 30-second spots that feature prominent M&S authors like Alice Munro and Peter Robinson. The spots, created in-house, feature interviews with the authors conducted by Bruce Walsh, M&S's director of marketing and publicity.Halpern...
Munro Magruder, publisher of New World Library, believes presses like his have become the beneficiary of this trend. In the past few years, Magruder has seen an influx of midlist authors who spent years at the big houses. He cited two books NWL published in October—Alice Walker's poetry ...
Cathy Adams' first novel, "This Is What It Smells Like," was published by New Libri Press, Washington. Charles Kruger Charles Kruger is a writer because he doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut. He paints too. Chitra Gopalakrishnan Chitra Gopalakrishnan uses her ardor for writing, wing...
I adored the playfulness of this short story. When we first met her, the main character was a teenage girl living in a single-parent home in the 1950s and desperately trying to be normal. Sometimes her mother toed the line of what a woman was supposed to be like in that era, and so...
Readers will likely want Cara on their team as they jump, like Alice down the rabbit hole, through the guide book that turns into a window through another world.”— VOYA“The seemingly three-tiered conflict that emerged in The Fires Beneath the Sea (2011) coalesces into a single war. ....
TORONTO (AP) — The daughter of the late Nobel laureate Alice Munro has accused the author's second husband, Gerard Fremlin, of sexual abuse, writing that her mother remained with him because she “loved him too much” to leave. Munro, who died in May at age 92,...
Alice Munro, “The Dimensions of a Shadow“ originally published inFolio, v.4.2, 1950 Miss Abelhart came out of the church alone. Her feet made quick, sharp, certain sounds on the cement steps—not the light tapping sounds pumps make, but harder, heavier claps. Miss Abelhart was wearing...
Kerr, who assembled the book over a weekend, said: “I knew it wouldn’t look like a ‘bookstore’ book, but I also knew it would look nice and something a young author would be proud to have: their first paperback book with...
Alice Munro in Lives of Girls and Women (1971), set in southwestern Ontario, and Margaret Laurence in her Manawaka novels (The Stone Angel, 1964; A Jest of God, 1966; The Diviners, 1974) explored their heroines’ rebellion against a constricting small-town heritage. Munro’s short stories...
Alice Munro in Lives of Girls and Women (1971), set in southwestern Ontario, and Margaret Laurence in her Manawaka novels (The Stone Angel, 1964; A Jest of God, 1966; The Diviners, 1974) explored their heroines’ rebellion against a constricting small-town heritage. Munro’s short stories...