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Archives: January 2006

Freywatch: The Agent Speaks!

Freywatch: UK publisher pulls head out of sand

Class Action Suit against Scholastic

Freywatch: Ladies Love Cool James

It's Miller Time

The Publisher as Plagiarist

Authors With Brimfuls of Celeb Sexcapades

Wackiest Fake Writer Yet: "Nazi Like Me"

Why Brooklyn Says Frey's Fiction

Wendy Wasserstein, 1950-2006

Monday Morning Freywatch: The fun continued after the show

Monday Morning Freywatch: the opinions continue

Sherman Alexie Speaks Out on Nasdijj

Monday Morning Freywatch: contests and merch!

From dour to cheerful, thanks to an audience

Wottakar's: here, there and everywhere

All We Are Is Dust in the Wind

What, No Dirk Wears White Sox?

Ballantine Throws Nasdijj Overboard

Weekend Freywatch: Another Take on Oprah

Brooklyn Librarians: Frey's a Fiction Writer

Nasdijj's "Navahoax" Gets Weirder

Battle of the D.C. Sex Scandal Pastiches

Publishing Tidbits, or there's more to life than James Frey

Freywatch: the fallout continues

So how hard is it to fact check anyway?

Switching from memoir to novel

Freywatch: so *now* the publishers get contrite!

James Frey Gets His, Takes It Like Man(?)

Where's Our Invite, Oprah?

Freywatch: Not Happening in the UK

Patrick O'Keeffe Wins Story Prize

One More JT LeRoy Item, Because We Can

Will the misery memoir just go away already?

2nd Borders Exec Announces Departure

The biographer as detective

Whither Canadian Publishing?

From agent to author

Dog Days Honeymoon Already Over?

Kloske to Riverhead

Freywatch: All Hazelden, all the time

Fake Writers (Finally) Come in Threes

You know it's going to be a bidding war for first serial rights

WHSmith's woes continue

Barer looks to flesh out her list

Smithsonian Institutes a Leaner Approach

Oxford Spotlights Freedom Riders

Spurling gets the Whitbread

Thanks for the Shoutout, PW Daily

Trump to Libel Attorneys: You're Hired!

Stephen King, Sullied By Commerce? Horrors!

Freywatch: Weingarten, Wiesel and more

Bowker gives stats on setting, price and format

They are so into talk shows

Newbery, Caldecott Awards given

Jeff vs. Geoffrey in Courtroom Battle

Da Vinci Code to Open Cannes

Here's a Health to Them That's Awa

Talking with Waterfront Media: Self-Help done selectively

Turkey drops case against Pamuk

NYTBR Back on the Twaddle

Teachout to Gutenberg: Here's Your Hat

Freywatch: last trickling gasps

All BHL, All the Time

Oprah's Got Competition

And How Was Your Weekend?

Sysops Shut Frey Down? Or Is He Lying?

No Pets Allowed, Not Even Bananafish

A Riddle Solved: Audiobook Techniques Revealed

Blog Usurps Yet Another Magazine Function

Original Voices IDed at the Borders

Textual analysis goes deeper than imagined

Oh, to be a fly on the wall

Memo to UK chains: the rope to hang yourselves is here

Jordan and Jodie: the catfight extends to books!

Kirshbaum's first deal as an agent

OMG, Somebody's Dissing Elie Wiesel!

Loompanics Closing Its Doors Forever

George Tenet gets a book deal -- yet again

Wait, That Was a Real Interview?

It's a Pan-demic

Bruce Jenner, Call Your Agent

The Night isn't so Still

Of mystery novels, Embassies and success

Pre-empting the incessant coverage to come

Freywatch: Nan Talese gets angry and Tom Scocca loves the footnote

Mad Max Perkins takes off his mask

Choose Your Own (or Somebody Else's) Adventure

Further to Folio

Will the lads want to buy books?

Wire Services Bicker Over Oprah's Night

Speaking of Trauma Narratives...

We'll Settle This When the Softball Fields Thaw...

NYT Not Quite Done Playing With Cox

Online Philosophers Moving Into Print

Ring-a-Ding-King

Freywatch: password protection, class action lawsuits, and Michiko has her say!

The Litblog Co-Op's Winter Nominee

Eric Major passes on

Because being married to her is enough material

The Jane Austen Guide to Romance

Bronx Library Center Opens Today

Oprah Plans Entire Day Around Night

NBCC Nominations Are In...

A Few Last Frey Reactions...

...And One Last LeRoy Take

Hue and Frey: An Op-Ed-Like Summation

JT LeRoy: The Ultimate Triumph of Alt.Sex.Stories?

The Second Season has publishing life

The underside of independent bookselling

Wottakar's: Quick bulletins

The Script Had Holes In It

The No-Frey, No-LeRoy Wrapup

Frisco's Queer Youth Slam LeRoy

Frey Grilled a la King

Yet more on Frey: Talese vs. Talese

So what will this mean for Wottakar's?

The Iowa of Sci-Fi Writing Workshops

Then Again, Is Iowa Still the Iowa of MFAs?

Bringing together crime of all kinds

Death as a window to literature

"Are comics sexist? Der."

They'll Take Your Money (And Never Give Up)

Transfolk Speak Out on JT's Deception

Evidently he wasn't such a joy to work with, either

This bodes *real* well for book prizes

Does Hollywood Care About Phony Authors?

Algonquin adds a paperback line

Looks like fakery isn't just restricted to books

Soft Skull Goes Pop

What does all this literary fakery mean for publishing?

The Axes Come Out for Grinding

Our Shameless Bid for Popularity

J.K. Rowling offers a glimpse into the future

At Algonquin, the quirkier the better

Warner Shows Skill at Panning Frey

Sometimes a blanket "no comment" will do the trick

And the winner of Cindy Sheehan's next round of memoirs is...

Further to the Frey-up

Hollywood Producer Picks Up Younger Woman

The Author Who Wasn't There

Guess James Frey's memory was faultier than imagined

You Won't Fool Warren St. John Twice

Harlequin Romance, Manga-style

Another Star in the Business Blogosphere

Who cares about winning -- it's scandal that counts

The Monday Morning QB on DOG DAYS

Breaking: Da Vinci Code PB for March?

It's Like 1984 All Over Again!

The Adventures of Balloon Man

Folio: the newest Superagency

Bookscan Can't Track These Hot Books

They analyzed Bookscan so you didn't have to

Even more about MySpace

Get ready, get set...OFT!

Forgive Me While I Geek Out

The agent/author name game goes a bit too far

Clegg hitches his post to WMA

It's Like 1971 All Over Again!

Ana Marie Cox Is 2006's Curtis Sittenfeld

JT LeRoy Sighted in Hollywood Hills!

Book clubs by proxy

The Agent Who Loves Small Presses

For books, the price isn't exactly right

I think I'll just echo Michael Cader's line on this

MySpace: the Author's Place

Not Since Carrie...

...And All the Reviews Will Be Above Average

What's next for Wonkette

Another Zindel enters the YA fray

And the Whitbreads go to...

Assorted Odds & Ends

Oh Boy, Another Regional Literary Magazine!

Terry McMillan knows how to throw things in her hubby's face, too

They get knocked down, but they get up again

Facts Continue to Change Their Shape

An unforseen consequence of Pottermania

It's not easy to be a shill

And a collective "oooops" was sounded by all

Let Them All Talk

Ring in 2006 with some wishful thinking

Newflash: Jackie Collins and litfic aren't best buds!

Two Literary Deaths Close '05 on Sad Note

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