AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoNobel Impact: Canadian poet Anne Carson’s Literature Nobel sent her books flying: Indigo sales jumped 10,325% in a day, Calgary Public Library logged 435 holds, and Carson’s spoken-word tracks became Rheostatics’ most-streamed songs. Publishing Rules: A forthcoming true-crime book was ruled ineligible for the Writers’ Trust’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize because co-author Judy Penz Sheluk owns the press publishing it, prompting questions about whether the rule is too rigid. AI and Authorship: “Human-authored” labels are gaining ground amid AI-related publishing scandals, as readers and the industry grapple with how to identify human-written books. Canadian Books: Hockey coach Darryl Sutter’s memoir, The Code of the West: Lessons from the Ranch and the Rink, arrives Tuesday. Michelle Good and P.E.I. writer Nicholas Herring are among the Giller Prize shortlist authors.
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