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The Giller goes to...: An upset winner for Canada's biggest book prize last night: veteran TV journalist Linden MacIntyre overtook more favored novels by Anne Michaels and Annabel Lyon, among others, with his Giller Prize win for The Bishop's Man, a story of corruption in the Catholic Church in Nova Scotia. It only came in fourth out of five in the Guess the Giller contest, and the Globe & Mail's pre-award prediction panel settled on Michaels (although they liked The Bishop's Man). No US publication rights yet, though that should change soon.
"At's a lot a preparation": James Jones's daughter Kaylie (author of Lies My Mother Never Told Me) reveals the cuts to homosexual storylines that Jones made to From Here to Eternity in response to publisher pressure.
The Bassmetrics revolution:The Millions points to the spreadsheet compiled by the obsessive Best American Short Stories blogger at Years of BASS, which tracks the most frequent author appearances in the yearly anthology since 1978: Alice Munro leads by a mile, followed by Updike, Oates, and Mavis Gallant (those Canadians again--should it be renamed Best North American Short Stories?). But just measuring author appearances? As a former baseball stats geek, I know we can dig much further into the data: the journals the stories came from, trends in literary symbols and alcohol and drug intake, frequency of adultery, brand names, and talking animals... C'mon, amateur scholars, there's hectares of open territory here.
Moving & shaking: On Veteran's Day, Robert M. Poole's On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery appears in our top 10 Movers & Shakers.
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