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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

Make way for the Sony Reader

Settling the Blogger/Book Deal Confusion

London's Sunday Times Is a Man's World

Scene @ Edward Kosner's Book Party

Re-Ups from Hot Young Authors

John Scalzi Begs to Differ

The best answer yet to the chick lit divide

There may not be a more apt title

The Next Jack Reacher?

Murakami wins short story prize

Day Three at the Goteborg Book Festival

PW's New Publisher a Familiar Face

And the Banned Played On...

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 double dose of Danuta Kean

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

awards, briefly

Scene @ Joseph Stiglitz's Book Party

Reading about Reading, the New York Times way

Hodder pushes paperbacks

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

Shafak acquitted

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

Fake Writers a-Go-Go!

Kathy's Story continues to be dismissed as fake

Tomorrow's Multivalent World of Publishing

B&Bs for the Book Lovers' Set

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!

A New Crop of Geniuses

It Was That Kind of Party

The book no one has been waiting for

The Irish James Frey?

Former spy angers MI6 by posting first chapter online

The "new" Tolkien book

Gotham Book Mart needs saving once more

SoHo Is Jumping Tonight!

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

Fairly Warned Be Ye, Says I

If he's not running in '08, why the book deal?

The cult of book signings

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?

B&N denies Israel move

And the Winner Is...

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?

Garrison Keilor, bookseller?

Scene @ Nextbook's Emma Lazarus Party

J.K. Rowling 1, Airport Security 0

Romantically minded men

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"

Men "Cannot Write Romance"

Setterfield handles the hype

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

Happy birthday, Roald Dahl!

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

David Payne's "Muffin Tour"

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

Changes at Avalon Publishing

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

Cody's sale now official

Random House sales up; Bertlesmann ponders what's next

We Welcome the Competition

"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?

Faking it with Fay

Meltzer Puts New Spin on Virtual Book Tour,
Kicks Book Branding into High Gear

A Look Back at Last Week's Idiots

Eats, Shoots and Argues

Literary hoaxer unmasked

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

Mergers hit the German book market, too

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