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''It doesn't stop here ... soon I will prove myself worthy as a singer and take the world by storm.''When 30-year-old Paula Goodspeed, after her failed American Idol audition, wrote these hopeful words on her MySpace site in...
The artistic director of Complicite theatre company has been busy exploring the art of numbers, writes Jane Cornwell | November 15, 2008 Article from: The Australian SIMON McBurney is used to finding beauty in art, music and...
In contention: Ian McEwan, author of On Chesil Beach. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje was nominated by 13 libraries, just ahead of Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach, which received 10 nods. The longlist in full: A Curious Intimacy...
Joseph Boyden waves from his table at the beginning of the Giller Prize gala in Toronto on Tuesday. (Frank Gunn/Canadian Press) Joseph Boyden is the latest winner of the Giller Prize, Canada's richest award for fiction, for his...
TORONTO - A new wave of Canadian writers will be feted at tonight's Scotiabank Giller Prize ceremony, as the lucrative book award celebrates its 15th year. Tory McNally, co-owner of McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg,...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an unlikely best-seller — it's the first book in a trilogy of thrillers written by Stieg Larsson, a previously unknown Swedish journalist who died of a heart attack in 2004.
In their contribution to a new anthology titled HTO: Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-Flow Toilets, architects Kim Storey and James Brown summarize the basic problem facing all such efforts: ''The best...
