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| April 26, 2008 |
At the BC Book Prizes gala at the Fairmont Waterfront in Vancouver, Mary Novik's Conceit was awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for 2008. For more, see photos of the gala, the list of winners of the BC Book Prizes, the blog by Gail Anderson-Dargatz, the Vancouver Sun report, and the CBC Arts story. |
| April 25, 2008 |
Caroline Skelton awards her own tongue-in-cheek prizes--including the "I can smell the cobblestones award" and the "bad sex award"-- to the five finalists for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (The North Shore News, p. 19). |
| April 19, 2008 |
We've now touched down from our flight back to Vancouver after touring communities along the Yellowhead Highway from Prince Rupert to Prince George, and back! There's a great authors' blog and a photo album from the tour, and local coverage can be found in The Prince Rupert Daily News, April 11, 2008; The Prince George Citizen ("Authors Reach out to Students", April 18, 2008), and other northern papers. |
| April 2008 |
Conceit is Janet Nichol's pick in "Room Recommends", Room Magazine, Volume 31, number 4, p. 101. |
| April 10, 2008 |
Random House creative director, CS Richardson, wins an honourable mention from the Alcuin Society for the design of Conceit. |
| March 27, 2008 |
"Instructors up for Book Prizes," Janaya Fuller-Evans, The Voice, p. 3. |
| March 6, 2008 |
Conceit is a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. See the jazzy new BC Book Prizes website for details about the events leading up to the prize ceremony on April 26, including the tour of Northern BC that I will be going on from April 13-18. Blogged by Gail Anderson-Dargatz and Rather Be Reading. |
| Spring 2008 |
Conceit reviewed in Trek, UBC Alumni magazine, p. 34. |
| January 14, 2008 |
Mary Novik is interviewed by Nancy Lee for Booming Ground, the online writing studio in the University of BC's Creative Writing program. |
| January 1, 2008 |
Mary Soderstrom announces on her blog Recreating Eden on January 1, 2008, and again on April 2, 2008, that "Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes . . . and Mary Novik's Conceit were the two best Canadian novels I read last year." |
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| December 21, 2007 |
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Inkslinger admires Conceit in spite of herself in a review at her blog The Overdecorated Bookcase, which has attracted a number of visitors who have added provocative comments. |
| December 2007 |
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Mary Novik reads from Conceit and talks about the inspiration for the novel in two sound files at Authors Aloud. |
| December 2007 |
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Conceit moves to #6 in Books in Canada's Top 15 Bestselling First Novels, the only book on the list that is in hardcover. |
| December 2, 2007 |
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Gail Anderson-Dargatz chooses Mary Novik's Conceit as the book that she is championing for Fall 2007 in The Ottawa Citizen and other periodicals. |
| December 1, 2007 |
Jim Bartley includes Conceit in "My Top Five: A Feast of Firsts" in The Globe 100, The Globe and Mail, p. D6. |
| December 2007 |
Quill & Quire chooses Conceit as one of the Books of the Year for 2007. |
| November 2007 |
Books in Canada ranks Conceit as #4 on their Top 15 Bestselling First Novels list. |
| November 25, 2007 |
Another great review of Conceit at a blog, this time by Cipriano at BookPuddle. |
| November 17, 2007 |
John Miedema reviews Conceit on the blog at his Slow Reading website. |
| October 2007 |
Books in Canada ranks Conceit as #2 on their Top 15 Bestselling First Novels list, right after Ami McKay's The Birth House. |
| October 21, 2007 |
"Poetry and Religion Mix with Hypochondria in 17th Century", Review of Conceit in The Times Colonist (Victoria). |
| October 17, 2007 |
Andrea Penney interviews Mary Novik in A Conversation about Conceit on Take 5, CIUT 89.5 FM Toronto. |
| October 2007 |
Conceit is the featured book at Bookclubs.ca Resources include a bookclub guide and an interview (Q&A) and an audio interview with editor Lara Hinchberger. |
| Fall 2007 |
"17th-century Immersion: Donne & Daughter," by Gudrun Will, Vancouver Review, No. 15, p. 25. Available at Chapters, Coles, and Indigo across Canada until December 31. |
| October 14, 2007 |
"When Passion Raged: Novel Charts Complex Relationship Between Poet John Donne and Daughter," by Joe Wiebe, The Edmonton Journal. |
| October 13, 2007 |
"A New View of John Donne: Novel Mixes History, Grotesque Fantasy," by Pat Donnelly, The Montreal Gazette, Books Section, p. 14 |
| September 18, 2007 |
"Two Vancouver Writers on Giller list," by Rebecca Wigod, The Vancouver Sun. |
| September 17, 2007 |
The nominees for the Scotiabank Giller Prize for 2007 were announced, and Conceit was on the list! A Quill & Quire article links to reviews of the books. |
| September 16, 2007 |
Review of Conceit by Kathryne Kouk in What's on Winnipeg. |
| September 10, 2007 |
A discussion thread on Conceit titled "A Magnificent Novel of 17th-century London" after the Globe and Mail review was started by Cassandra Sadek in the Booklounge.ca group on Facebook. |
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September 8, 2007
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"Mary Novik's Conceit: A Magnificent Novel of 17th-century London. Donne, Pepys, Walton--and you are there," review by Jim Bartley, Globe & Mail, pp. D1, 8, 25. |
| September 7, 2007 |
Profile of Mary Novik, "Passion Inspires Conceit," by Caroline Skelton, North Shore News, pp. 15-16. |
| September 1, 2007 |
Virtual launch of Mary Novik's Conceit and Gail Anderson-Dargatz's Turtle Valley. To read the on-line chat, go to Gail Anderson-Dargatz's website and click on "forums" to the left, then click on "Mary Novik and Gail Anderson-Dargatz". |
| September 1, 2007 |
"A Passion Out of Time," review of Conceit by Joe Wiebe, The Vancouver Sun, p. C10. |
| September 1, 2007 |
Mary Novik's debut novel Conceit published by Doubleday Canada. |
| August 28, 2007 |
Department of Eating My Words: Good Books Division, comment on Conceit at Mary Soderstrom's blog, "Recreating Eden". |
| August 20, 2007 |
Starred review of Conceit in Quill & Quire by Mary Soderstrom, September 2007, p. 59. |
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Highlights from the SPiN Writing Group
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June 9, 2007
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"The spin women are writing pals--for life" Column on SPiN writing group by Cheri Hanson, The Vancouver Sun, p. C8.
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| March 10, 2007 |
Listen to Mary Novik, Jen Sookfong Lee, and June Hutton in a conversation with Sheryl MacKay on North by Northwest, CBC Radio One |
May 27, 2006
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"The New Writing Groups: More Writing, Less Merlot" Article on SPiN by Cheri Hanson, The Vancouver Sun, p. C10. |
June 19, 2003
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"Summer Inspiration for Literary Aspiration" SPiN profiled in article by John Burns, The Georgia Straight, p. 29. |
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