Literary Links

The reviews are overwhelmingly positive for Ian McEwen's On Chesil Beach. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2007/05/31/AR2007053102540.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/review/Lethem-t.html?ref=review
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/labkbrownrigg3jun03,0,5719141.storycoll=labooksheadlines
http://www.sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgif=/c/a/2007/06/03/RVGTMQ18Q21.DTL&type=books
Read the first chapter of On Chesil Beach here:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/chapters/0603-1st-mcew.html

The Globe & Mail says that Barry Callaghan's latest collection of short stories, Between Trains, is the work of a master at full stretch. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070602.BKCALL02/TPStory/Entertainment/Books

The Star's Phil Marchand speculates on why Callaghan, despite his long and distinguished career, remains curiously neglected in literary culture. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/220866

Janin Armin is impressed with the way in which Anne Stone, in her third novel, Delible, traverses the magical, yet difficult, territory of young girls. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070602.BKDELI02/TPStory/Entertainment/Books

Patricia Robertson says that the stories in Sarah Klassen's latest collection, A Feast of Longing, possess a perfect balance between light and shadow that few Canuck writers have mastered. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/220864

Jim Bartley, First Fiction reviewer for the Globe and Mail, suggests that the big risk and great strength of Andrew Wedderburn's début novel, The Milk Chicken Bomb, is in what the author doesn't say. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070602.BKBART02/TPStory/Entertainment/Books

Opinion maven Heather Mallick says that Linda McQuaig, author of Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the US Empire, is a model for Canadian journalists. http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_mallick/20070525.html
Read a review of McQuaig's book in the Montreal Gazette: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/books/story.html?id=a95b7aa6-68d7-4eb3-8bd8-2a8e3869ba42

In her review of Marianne Wiggins' latest book, The Shadow Catcher, Jane Smiley declares Wiggins one of our most adventuresome and enterprising novelist. http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-smiley3jun03,0,2981462.story?coll=la-books-center

The New York Times calls Cindy Brown Austin's By the Rivers of Babylon a potboiler rich in characters and urban detail that is learned first-hand. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/03colct.html?ref=books

Derek Weiler writing in The Star says that Miranda July's début collection of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, shows care and talent, and at its best will leave readers both laughing and brooding. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/220865

Of the prolific Joyce Carol Oates' latest novel, The Gravedigger's Daughter, The New York Times says there is much to admire in this bittersweet tale of one woman's triumph of will.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/books/07gree.html?ref=book

Janet Maslin writing for The New York Times says that although Danielle Ganek's début novel, Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, set in the New York's trendy art scene, is a genre novel, it's better than most.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/books/28masl.htmlex=1181188800&en=731cbfc1ddc35645&ei=5070
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/fashion/03ganek.html?ref=books
T. Paul Ste. Marie, a well-known and loved Vancouver performer, promoter and poet, has passed away at the age of 41.
http://onlymagazine.ca/Theatre/1057/t-paul-ste-marie-1966-2007