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Archives: October 2006
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
"Lit Chick Invasion" Takes Overs KGB
Political Race Turns into Ugly Literary Debate
Joyce Maynard wants you to forget about J.D. Salinger...or does she?
Jayson Blair's Publisher a Hip-Hop Architect?
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...
HarperCollins UK distribution issues resolved?
Dominique Paul: From Author to Auteur
Vanity Press Invokes Bowker's Name in Vain?
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
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 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
Random House Canada launches new websites
Meg Tilly: "Hybrid" Publishing's Big Success Story
Blockbusters Ain't All That, Says Editor
Let Her Eat Box Office Success
Cancer Vixen Underwrites Free Mammograms
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
Horror-meister King, the next generation
Informa's quest for publishing gianthood
Pat Robertson Mocked in Full Color
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
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
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
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
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
Crittenden, Uchitelle @ New School Labor Forum
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
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
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
"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?
You're Tired of Book Embargoes
UW's creative program gets massive grant
Embargo on State of Denial Collapses
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
