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Archives: December 2005

Happy New Year!

Beat Safire at his own game

The Devil Girl Made Him Do It

Have Authorblogs Become Corporate Shills?

History dead; politics still ticking

And now, no one will try to eat the book

Keep those New Year's Resolutions Comin'

Reclusive Rocker Creates Own Legend of Zelda

Someone Forgot the Customer's Always Right

Further University Press Recommendations

Here's to You, Nicola & Bart

The biographer-subject relationship just got a bit more contentious

It's a Mailbag Morning...

Talk about long distance editing

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Let's Begin!

Cancel That Order of Freedom Fries?

On the good ship Book Fair

Though some promises are made to be broken

Now it's official: blogging is dead

College Libraries Still Safe for Communism

Times Shuts Down Univ. Presses

The ones that got away

The rime of the ancient editor

Million dollar babies

Holiday Reflections

Take out a book along with your Chinese food

The headaches of hedge funds

Intelligent Design Gets a Failing Grade

Atheist Launches Book Project During Holidays

Marketing Anne Rice proves challenging still

Your Thoughts on Author/Critic Spats

The smacking down of Wottakars, OFT-style

Charitable Agent

Are Literary Feuds All in Our Heads?

More Coping With the Strike

That's what happens when Homeland Security has never heard of you

The celebrification of book signings

Talk About Your Quickie Affairs

For Klebanoff, backlist is key

More Questions About Times Timing

And yet more dispatches from the strike-indisposed

Did You Bother Coming to Work Today?

Cut the NYTBR Some Slack?

Little Red Book Crackdown... or Hoax?

Two Galleycats, One Washingtonienne and an East Village Bar

Just another day on the set of the Simpsons

Kirshbaum's Two-Step to the other side

Marvel's Stop-Pulling Plans for 2006

Hey, those Goldfish cookies are still available, right?

Maira Kalman Finds Inspiration in Grammar

Senator Attacks Times Reporter's Book Deal

Thanks (in Advance) for Your Memories

yet another Da Vinci clone gets ink

Hoisting the NYTBR by its own petard

The Public Editor's Report: Another Take

Who'd Watch The Watchmen?

They're taking the fun out of political memoirs

Sound business practices probably help, too

Prebich to head Dorchester Publishing

Book Marketing Goes Bust

Paul Crichton Lands on His Feet

This isn't quite what "selling books online" was supposed to mean

Self-help books for kids: a market niche waiting to be filled?

Hello: Is There Anybody Out There?

Well that sort of deflates things

TW to agents: give us European rights or bust

Nerds Bemoan Domination by Geeks

Google Debate Roadshow Continues

Spider-Man on the Web, Penguins Read Out Loud

Galleycats Prowling the Internet

Vice Debaters: Shut Up Now, Thanks

Save us, O mighty Internet, Save Us!

The Globalization of Narnia

A better title might have been 7 AND A HALF % FAMOUS

PR Odds and Ends

Will POD Revive Borderline Fantasy Novels?

Your Reactions to Online Hype

Pinter Persuasion & Radical Reading

Elsewhere on mediabistro.com: Blank Slate

The tipping point for publishing success

Would a smile on Roth's face make the world a better place?

Geezer Time in NYC

The TWBG Shuffle: Shakin' at the Time Inc. Hop

You know the Da Vinci Bubble's Going to Burst ASAP

Is publishing a madhouse? Guardian readers think so

Random House, Random House, rah rah rah

Online Flak Peppers Everyone Worth Knowing

The Flaks can Overpepper for far too long

Search Inside the Publisher

The fugitive billionaire boys' club

In E-book World, ASCII Still Roolz!

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

And watch those book sales climb ASAP

What R. Kelly Can Teach Bloggers

Leona Nevler dies at 79

Back to the Drawing Board

Gordimer Knot

With Macmillan and Ex-Hubby as his first guests, too

Whitbread breaks it off

Judging a Book's Cover

It always helps to know your history, I guess

Times Writers Confused by English Language

Does NY Press Hate Short Stories?

Those trivia books keep selling like hotcakes; the question is why?

...For the Love of God, Why? Even

So is this like Nike sponsoring the Edgars?

"Some have brains, and some haven't..."

Google Looms Over Indie Booksellers

Larry Kirshbaum's latest hire

Odds and Ends

You, too, can get involved with Wottakar's

One from Column A

Planet Bookscan: We asked, you provided

Another View of Planet Bookscan

Sister Doing It for Herself*

Wottakar's To and Fro

The Wrath of Kuhn

Oh God, Not Another Watchmen Item

Not exactly your typical ghosting gig

The Historian: not so equivocal after all

MoDo Mojo

It's all about the buzz, baby

Andrew Gross's Excellent Solo Adventure

A blind item we can sink our teeth into

Sister Act

And yet more fun with ReganMedia

"Apologies to Chris Ware," My Fanny

The Strange Cons of Martha Ivery

The Last Paul Crichton Story...(?)

Robinson Legs from New Press

Pinter In Hospital, Off Broadway

Wottakar's: smackdown by the OFT

Some Things Can't Be Taught

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

New Writing, Old Criticisms

Monographs On Demand

The Play of Magical Thinking

On the ARC front, revisited

Publicist's Resignation Sparks Gossip Column Showdown

Found on the Web, Found in the Street

The doom and gloom continues

Crap is as crap does, but it sure sells

Brad Vice Fans Shoot the Messenger

On the ARC front

You Can't Keep New Orleans Writers Down

Meet Your Galleycats

Nothing But Death Can Keep Me From It!

Prizes, Prizes everywhere

Those pesky ARCs

Downsize these

Her Passion for the Christ

Ich Bin Ein Berman-er

I Musta Got Lost

All in Color for 39 Cents

Buzz-building with blogs

Oops! Brad Did It Again

Kent Carroll's return to publishing

The Times Is On Their Side

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