http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/?ref=rss FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY en-ca Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:32:55 EST Copyright: (C) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, http://www.cbc.ca/aboutcbc/discover/termsofuse.html#Rss http://www.cbc.ca/rss/ http://www.cbc.ca/rss/image/cbc_144.gif http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/?ref=rss http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/09/julie-powell.html?ref=rss 2000348934 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:30:11 EST Julie Powell's new book, Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession, tells how she cut up her old life, first by taking up butchering, then by starting a disastrous affair. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/08/charles-taylor-prize.html?ref=rss 2000348701 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:37:36 EST A personal tale about a father connecting with his son has triumphed over a trio of significant historical figures, as journalist Ian Brown's The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for his Disabled Son took the 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction on Monday. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/07/australia-asia-prize.html?ref=rss 2000348565 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:25:31 EST The new Conservative West Australian state government has dumped the $102,000 Australia-Asia Literary Award, created in 2008, because it says the money is better used elsewhere. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/07/gormenghast-series-randomhouse.html?ref=rss 2000348571 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:39:32 EST Random House says it has won the rights to publish the fourth book in the acclaimed fantasy Gormenghast book series based on a manuscript, recently uncovered, written by author Mervyn Peake's wife, Maeve Gilmore. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/05/google-books-justice-department.html?ref=rss 2000348288 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:11:22 EST The U.S. Justice Department still thinks a proposal to give Google the digital rights to millions of hard-to-find books threatens to stifle competition and undermine copyright laws, despite revisions aimed at easing those concerns. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/04/tufts-poetry-winners.html?ref=rss 2000348080 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:54:31 EST An established San Francisco-area poet and an emerging colleague in Nashville have been named the latest winners of the lucrative Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/01/catcher-portrait.html?ref=rss 2000347533 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:13:05 EST A portrait of The Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger that first appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1961 has been put on display at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/01/political-writing.html?ref=rss 2000347495 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:16:34 EST A book by a Toronto doctor who worked in a Sudanese border town and a Vancouver journalist who toured the countries considered most dangerous for media workers have been nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/01/amazon-ebooks-macmillan.html?ref=rss 2000347477 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:21:32 EST Amazon.com says it will capitulate and agree to a boost in prices for electronic versions of books by publishing giant Macmillan after the online retailer pulled hundreds of titles off its site over the weekend. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/01/death-cat-doctor.html?ref=rss 2000347466 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:45:25 EST The scientist in Dr. David Dosa was skeptical when first told that Oscar, an aloof cat kept by a nursing home, regularly predicted patients' deaths by snuggling alongside them in their final hours. But his doubts eroded after he and his colleagues tallied about 50 correct calls made by Oscar over five years. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/01/lost-booker-nominees.html?ref=rss 2000347419 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:14:15 EST Canadian literary icon Margaret Laurence and British author Iris Murdoch are two of the writers in the running to win the Lost Man Booker Prize. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/01/28/davos-atwood.html?ref=rss 2000346949 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:06:07 EST Canadian author Margaret Atwood was in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday with a speech prepared about the importance of art in the world's economy.