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Who's Reading What? with Ian Weir

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To celebrate the summer of 2017, we are pleased to present an ongoing series of reading recommendations/reminiscences by Goose Lane authors past and present.
Today: Ian Weir (Will Starling)

The sale of souls to the devil seems to have shaped up as the dominant theme in my summer reading. This wasn’t exactly intentional, but here we seem to be.

Each summer I vow to read at least one or two of the books that are so classic that I’m humiliated to admit that I’ve never read them. Don’t ask me about War and Peace, okay? Maybe next summer.

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This week in news, from a bookish perspective

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We're (meaning Goose Lane) Number One! Rave reviews this week for Lori McNulty's Life on Mars (Publishers Weekly and Buried in Print), Robert Clark's Down Inside (Publishers Weekly), Don McKay's Angular Unconformity, Collected Poems 1970-2014 (Today's Book of Poetry), and Heather Igloliorte's SakKijâjuk: The Art and Craft of Nunatsiavut (National Gallery of Canada)

We're (meaning Canada) Number One! One True Summer, an award-winning graphic novel by Canadian artist Mariko Tamaki, earns the number one spot on the American Library Association’s 2016 list of “banned and challenged books” (The Ottawa Citizen)

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What happened this week? (in book news, obviously)

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Books of the summer: Books you really should consider for the summer months, including a bunch of Goose Lane! (from Atlantic Books Today)

We love this! New York City Turns Subways Into Underground Libraries, With Free Books to Read During Your Commute (from NBC New York)

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The Literary News, June 9, 2017

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This Week in Literary News

 

5 Tips to Stand Out in the Slush Pile (from Open Book)

Homo Sapiens, meet Homo Deus: Dan Falk (The Science of Shakespeare) interviews author Yuval Noah Harari and other experts about the human (and post-human) future (NBCnews.com)

An Insider’s Story of Canadian Prisons: The newest issue of Atlantic Books Today features an in-depth feature on Robert Clark’s Down Inside (Atlantic Books Today, p.44)

Make Space: PEN International launches campaign for displaced writers, with Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood (from PEN International)

Take a Look: An Oral History of Reading Rainbow (from Mental Floss)

Agony Editor: Once the joy of being published fades, the challenge of growing as an author begins (from Quill & Quire)

Fahrenheit 451: In remembrance of Ray Bradbury, who passed away five years ago this week, Ralph Steadman’s brilliantly odd Illustrations for Bradbury’s classic novel (from brainpickings

Fahrenheit 451

And speaking of Fahrenheit 451: The Icelandic publisher that only prints books during a full moon – then burns them! (from The Guardian)

Musical literature: Quotes from beloved books, each thematically matched with a song (The Literary Jukebox)

Ebook sales up, overall sales down: BookNet Canada releases its fourth annual report on the state of digital publishing (from Quill & Quire)

12 Fictional Bookstores We Wish Were Real (from Electric Lit)

Women & Women First Bookstore, from Portlandia

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