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Archives: October 2006

Scene @ Jack's Widow Party

Finally, a Fake Writer We Can Admire!

Obama Not Quite So Goody Two-Shoes?

Telling Tales for Fun and Profit

Soap Opera with a Superhero Twist

Spin Control kicks in for Rubenfeld

AP Comes Late to the Pessl Party

Probing YA Writer's Absence from Borders Shelves

She decides what gets stocked at Asda

Marine Corps Memoirist Defends Webb's Fiction

NYT Echoes Its Own Aeneid Coverage

Bypassing the bookstore

"Lit Chick Invasion" Takes Overs KGB

Political Race Turns into Ugly Literary Debate

WSJ Love Letter to B&N

Joyce Maynard wants you to forget about J.D. Salinger...or does she?

The Barnes & Noble Book Club

Jayson Blair's Publisher a Hip-Hop Architect?

Make way for the Story Prize

A Strong Fourth Quarter for Pearson

NYTBR Victim of Awkward Juxtaposition

Indie Publisher As Coffee Entrepreneur?

Fishbowlers Make the Party Scene in NY, DC

The NBA "Comic Book" Backlash Begins

Could this rookie author be Starbucks' next choice?

GalleyCats to Speak at Writers Conferences

Madonna's Malawi Adoption mere Book Promo?

Dem's Shining Star Wows Rare Book World

Penguin Canada commissions Green Gables Prequel

On the boldface name bookselling front

Kate Atkinson, the "Born-Again" Writer

Lost Girls Dispute Resolved Amicably

The Devil Went Down to Austria?!?

Whiting Prize winners, and Li's battle for permanent residency

The publishing history of Gawker's new co-editor

And the winner of the LES BIENVEILLANTES auction is...

Second Life for Agents, too

HarperCollins UK distribution issues resolved?

Getting Wise to Bookwise

Dominique Paul: From Author to Auteur

Vanity Press Invokes Bowker's Name in Vain?

From Politics to the Page

Richard Ford: still a Jersey Boy after all these years

KGB's Nonfiction Series Gets Religion

Mother-daughter booksellers hit television jackpot

Changes & Growing Pains for ICM

Former Book Columnist Joins Bloggers

Small Presses Wow 'Em in Catskills

A most unlikely publishing event

Penguin gets in on Virtual Reality Craze

Hudson Booksellers has its year-end list already

IBM Sues Amazon Over E-Commerce Patents

Rappin' on the Classics

Foyles makes its mark in Selfridges

NYTBR Depicts Blogger as Dickhead

Scene @ Art of Friendship Signing

It's Official: OJ Book Deal a Crock

The perils of ghostwriting

The Launch Author for Picador Asia

Skepticism As H'Wood CEO Pledges Candid Memoir

Riverdeep to buy Houghton Mifflin?

Tibetan Marathoner On the Road Again

Jared Paul Stern Has At Least One Fan

$3.5M for OJ? WTF?

Random House Canada launches new websites

Meg Tilly: "Hybrid" Publishing's Big Success Story

Blockbusters Ain't All That, Says Editor

Book Fairs still going in US

Let Her Eat Box Office Success

Cancer Vixen Underwrites Free Mammograms

Staff Changes at Soho Press

Is Brainless Author Being Repressed?

Litblogosphere Creates A New YA Prize

David Baldacci Moonlighting as Library Guide

Graphic Novelist Miriam Engelberg, 1958-2006

Party With mediabistro.com's Literary Posse

A crowded fall season leads to serious deja vu

In Her Mother's Shadow

Horror-meister King, the next generation

Harper UK's Distribution Woes

Informa's quest for publishing gianthood

Pat Robertson Mocked in Full Color

Scene Last Night, On the Town

The Return of Publishing's #1 Zombie

Dooce'll Do a Book for Kensington,
She Just Won't Write It

The Stats Don't Lie, But He Got The Deal Anyway

Today in books-to-movies

Riding the Barack Obama Wave

Sony settles 'Scissors' Lawsuit

It's beginning to look a lot like a difficult Christmas

Booker Prize Sponsor Goes to Asia

Scene @ Kate Zuckerman's Sweet Life Party

DK Sends PR Team to CBGB Closing

HarperCollins Blog Goes to the Dog

The Interpretation of Lackluster Sales

Peter Osnos: Newspapers & Publishers Should Work Together

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Bertelsmann plans competitor to MySpace?

Chronicle's New Promotion to Booksellers:
It's Got Cat Pictures, So We're Happy

When Blockbuster Books Disappoint, What Then?

"The Hoax" scores big at Rome Film Fest

Follow Your Bliss, Order a Venti

Lexus goes for mystery fiction

Orhan Pamuk Ready to Speak His Mind

A Moment of Blatant Self-Promotion

Bookstores Live on in Our Memories

Maybe doing this online would have been easier, but this sounds more fun

Nobel Peace Prizer's Book Deal in Place

Foer, Roth Face Off for Online Book Prize

NBC's New Hit a Salman Rushdie Knockoff?!?

Hyperion and Disney now distributed by HarperCollins?

Nat'l Book Awards: Graphic Novel on YA A-List

The "autobiography in 2007" won't be published here

Esquire gets new fiction editor, promises more stories

I Believe I Might Have Told You So

The Phantom Book Tour

Awards Week Continues with PEN USA

Dooced Again: Blogger Settles w/Jilted Publisher

A Meeting of the Productivity-Focused Minds

Missouri Library Defers Decision on "Porn" Comics

Scene @ The End Book Party

Orhan Pamuk wins the Nobel

National Book Awards: rationale and reactions

Things We Didn't Know About Robert Hughes

The Sony E-Reader: Not Ready for Prime Time

Louise Bagshawe's MP run gets closer to reality

Our Callil Coverage Gets Noticed, Criticized

And your National Book Award Finalists are..

Book Keeping With Kalisha Buckhanon

Party Cancelled, Callil Attacks Her Protestors

The Quills: An Awards Show in Search of a Point

When art imitates life a little too closely

Fake Writer Who Lied to Oprah Sentenced in Ohio

Talk About Prescient

Rushdie: Veils "Suck"

Crittenden, Uchitelle @ New School Labor Forum

Kiran Desai Wins Booker Prize

Jackson Pynchon's Rock 'n Roll Dreams

Who's Going to Win the Booker Prize?

It's Not Your Usual Launch Party

Rupert Murdoch Must Hate Ann Coulter

New Yorker Festival Roundup

Comics Fans, Censorship Foes Unite

Carmen Callil Book Party Cancelled

Blogging About Book Trailers?
Damn, We Should've Thought of That

Borders Opens in Dubai: Tower shuts down

Altman Gives Twelve Inside Dope on Movies

D-Day for LES BIENVEILLANTES: October 17

Observer Dips Into NYTBR's "Best" Playbook

And who are these literary editors, anyway?

Indies stay on top of the fight for survival

Dateline Frankfurt: "A Fair That Worked"

Reuters Awakens to Blog-Book Backlash

Emory's new Author-in-Residence: Salman Rushdie

UK Serial Novel "So Lovely, So Nicely Designed"

Authors Rage Against NYTBR Smugness

Immortalizing cheesy BritPop forever and ever

Missourians Press for Ban on "Porn" Comics

NYT Laughs at Embargo; Rivals Seethe

Dateline Frankfurt: China likely 2009's guest

Dateline Frankfurt: Yet more deals

Another day, another Turkish author on trial

That Galley's Got My Name On It

Go Tell the Spartans: 300 Trailer Now Online

Penguin Lets Comics Artists Loose
On Another Round of Modern Classics

Borders Flies out of LaGuardia

Terrell Owens' real kids book

Now That Banned Books Week Is Over,
America Can Get Back to Banning Books

Dateline Frankfurt: Through the Revolving Door

Richard Donner Returns to Superman

Bill Moyers Explains Rapture to New York Liberals

Dateline Frankfurt: frenzies, first novels and foul cries

Scene @ Book Parties in DC, NYC

Random House rebuffed by China?

Submission calls: Nautilus and PEN

Dateline Frankfurt: Let the Games Begin

Dateline Frankfurt: On the Rights Lookout

Tracking books to a whole new level

Author's Fans Chip In During Tough Times

Stephen King: Puttin' on the Blitz

Shortlisting the Gillers

"Enemies Strengthen You, Allies Weaken"

"Israel Lobby" Exposé Headed to FSG

Princeton Architectural Press Joins 'Sphere

Harlequin Enterprises cuts 4% of staff

Mergers & Acqusitions on the Publishing Front

Are There Too Many Great Books Coming?

The Big Book of Frankfurt?

You're Tired of Book Embargoes

RIP Coliseum Books - Take Two

UW's creative program gets massive grant

Alan Maclean dies at 81

Embargo on State of Denial Collapses

mbToolbox Chats With Joe Meno

Dwight Garner, Our Honorary Blogger Comrade

Kylie Minogue Writes Kids Book:
It's More Than I Dare to Think About

Vintage Brings 21st Century Lit Online

Devil Wears Prada Snags Special Quill

Salon: The Literary Losers Lounge

Starbucks Flirts with Alchemist for 11 Minutes

OK, Now This Is Just Weird...

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