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Archives: September 2006
Robert Downey, Jr. IS Iron Man
Scene @ "Fantagraphics 2006" Opening Party
Bloggers, Book Critics Find Common Ground
Blogging Lesson for Publishers:
A Scrapbook Is Not a Book
Metaverse Sourcebook Now Sold in Metaverse
Dan Brown's Secret Service Legend Debunked
Phillips, Prelutsky Pick Up Poetry Prizes
Copy Editors Today Have It Easy
Comics-Inspired Show Has Comics Spinoff
Sen. Allen's Biographer Stands by Her Man
Sci-Fi Bio Slights Sci-Fi Writer
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"JT Leroy" Peeks Out to Say Hello
Chomsky Still Hot, So's Sam Harris
Amazon & Penguin Team to Promote Classics
I'm Waiting for Walter Monheit's Review
Cancer Vixen Hailed in Print, Headed to Screen
So much for the "blogger book deal" bandwagon being over
The First Lady and her Dirty Books
Mosley Declares NaNoWriYear, More Advice Follows
Settling the Blogger/Book Deal Confusion
London's Sunday Times Is a Man's World
Scene @ Edward Kosner's Book Party
The best answer yet to the chick lit divide
There may not be a more apt title
Murakami wins short story prize
Day Three at the Goteborg Book Festival
PW's New Publisher a Familiar Face
Blumenthal Marginalized by NYTBR?
Was Diane Setterfield's success due to the internet?
Scene @ Arianna Huffington's Book Party
Gosh, I guess I'll have to get a book deal based on, um, my writing!!
A Marketplace Deviation from the Noam
GalleyCat@ Goteborg Book Festival
Saturday at the Goteborg Book Festival
A Shameless Bid for Your (Blurby) Affections
THE THIRTEENTH TALE takes bestseller lists by storm
GalleyCat vs. Intern Alexis:
Because You Demanded It!
The curious incident of the bestseller on Amazon UK
Scene @ Cancer Vixen Book Party
MacLehose joins Quercus for literary translation imprint
Scene @ Lee Montgomery's Book Party
Scene @ Joseph Stiglitz's Book Party
Reading about Reading, the New York Times way
Look Out, Oprah, Here Comes Chavez
Memo from the Dept. of Chopped Liver
Another Day, Another Fake Writer
This song and dance is oh-so-familiar
Scene @ Rona Jaffe Awards Reception
Is Civil War #4 Worth the Wait?
Actress sees novel turned into play
Ted Rall Dave to Ann Coulter's Maddie
Karen Fisher receives VCU's First Novelist Award
Highlights of the Beijing Book Fair
Rich, Silvers & Epstein Get Nat'l Book Nod
Memoirs dead in the wake of Frey? Think again
Poetaster Squabbling Gets High-Tech
Another Book Critic Besieged by Bloggers
Kathy's Story continues to be dismissed as fake
Tomorrow's Multivalent World of Publishing
Do Legal Woes Equal Commercial Success?
Department of obvious: Bloomsbury has great sales
Harlan Ellison on Litigious Rampage
Five Biz Books Shorted for FT/Goldman Sachs
Help GalleyCat Find Its Archnemesis!
The book no one has been waiting for
Former spy angers MI6 by posting first chapter online
Gotham Book Mart needs saving once more
The Brooklyn Book Festival vlog
Scene @ Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Book Festival: multiple points of view
Scene @ Downtown Omaha Lit Fest
...And One More Festival Out West
If he's not running in '08, why the book deal?
Fanfic's bid for legitimization
Today in Wottakar's: Giles gets new gig and comments on old one
Scene @ Emerging Leaders Night out
Serious Literary Women Agree:
Chick Lit Just a Marketing Tag
Meet Miss Hot Young Author Chick 2007
Freywatch: His First post-scandal interview
2nd Prize Is A Set of Steak Knives
Classics Illustrated An Acquired Taste?
Previewing the Brooklyn Book Festival
Loathing Ann Coulter Is a Bipartisan Affair
Borders UK Chief David Roche talks up the future
WHSmith trying to poach Ottakar's staff?
Can't Wait to Get on the Road Again
And the Booker Prize shortlist is...
I'll Take Literature for $200, Alex!
Any Free Plug Is A Good Free Plug, Right?
Scene @ Nextbook's Emma Lazarus Party
J.K. Rowling 1, Airport Security 0
Lagardere profits up; book sales grow
B&N to Israel; Empik moves into the Ukraine
NPR's News & Notes Signs Chideya
Separated at Birth, Special All-Fakes Edition
New Poll! Literary Cinema for Fall 2006
File this under "inevitable piece of news"
Happy Endings Begin All Over Again
Patterson Page Turner Awards return - with greater cash prize
Satellite Radio Is Like So:
Maya Angelou Embraces Talk Format
John Hodgman, Kicking It Old School
Michael Crichton Discovers Genetics
Greenleaf Recognized on the Rise
More Push Behind Thirteenth Tale
New Non-Profit to Aid Literary Journals
TV Writers Rallying Cry: "Make Mine Marvel!"
Temeraire to get the Peter Jackson treatment
Giller Prize longlist announced
Mystery novels as template for business decisionmaking
Borders stock a better bet now?
Don't Forget Next Week's Hotties Party!
Charles Frazier reflects on money, marketing and writing
Hutchinson snaps up Sunday Times Literary Editor
No Book Tour Until After the Honeymoon
Product placement in books: not exactly going away anytime soon
Today in bookselling: Foyle's expands, Waterstone's deals with exits
Nat'l Book Foundation, New School
Remember 9/11
Captain Marvel Enters the 21st Century
Gisele's Newest Booking: powerHouse
Top Cyberpunk's Agent Has No Time for Comics
Bookspan settles customer complaints case
Pop Jingles: More Fun than Book Trailers?
It's All About the Technorati Rating, Really
James Ellroy Outgrows His Murder-Soaked Past
The J.T. Leroy Hoax: just a big misunderstanding?
Hodgman's Expertise: Now
With Dragon, More Hoboes
It's getting afwully crowded at the top of the publishing heap
Publishing House as Space-Age Bachelor Pad?
Richard & Judy, the Christmas Edition
The Waterstone's makeover continues
All They Need Now Is a Cracker Jack Concession
Anderson Grinberg Splits in Two
More Details on FreyWatch Settlement
A "slush pile skivvy" reveals all
HarperCollins explains the embargo on Burrell's Princess Di book
Double Dipping the Dream Eaters
Joe Mantegna Not Done With Dino Legend Yet
Random House sales up; Bertlesmann ponders what's next
"Foremost Experimental Poet of His Generation"
Wins $100K Wallace Stevens Prize
The Most Star-Studded Book Trailer Yet?
New Princess Di book invites groans, yawns
Here's a Meme We Can Dispense With, Thanks
Dreamy British Actor Pens Memoirs
Cody's bought out by Japanese company
All That Fuss Over Princess Di's Butler? Sheesh.
More Authors Throughout mediabistro.com!
Meet the Hotties of Publishing—In Person!
Is Random House Settling Frey Suits?
Meltzer Puts New Spin on Virtual Book Tour,
Kicks Book Branding into High Gear
A Look Back at Last Week's Idiots
China gets its first foreign-run bookstore
At Long Last, Harlan, Have You
Left No Sense of Decency?
Ed Park exits Village Voice; arts coverage continues to die in newspapers
More Stupid Criticisms of Chick Lit
Lost Remembers Gulf Region's Lost Art
The French eat up political scandal books
When You Buy Harry Potter Books,
You Make the Angels Cry
The unlikely publisher of Mills & Boon
