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Archives: September 2007

Toiling in Obscurity? Take Comfort Online

An October Full of YA Goodness

"My Spidey-Sense is Tingling / What's a Good Rhyme for Tingling?"

Your Life Sucks, But You Get Free Books

GalleyCat Goes to the Dogs, One More Time

OJ Simpson Now Outselling Bill Clinton

A Dollar A Book on Crosby Street

Online Literary/Political Mag Making Jump to Print

Simon Spotlight Officially For Grownups

Have You Read These Yet?

The Miranda July Backlash Has Begun

Asian American Writers' Workshop Names 2007 Literary Award Winners

Enabling Authors to Improve Their Catalog Listings

Incoming S&S CEO Assembles Her Team

It's a Dirty Job, But...

This Is Not Your Father's Super Friends

Another Attempt to Peer into Oprah's Mind

Unbridled Turns BookSense Pick into Six-Figure PB Deal

Promotional Appearances, Real and Virtual

mediabistro.com Parses Book Biz Insider Info

Harvard Bookstore's Grip on Students Loosening

Weighing In on New NYTBR Lists

A Sneak Peek at The Kite Runner Movie

elsewhere on mediabistro.com: Pitching Lisa Hagan

It's a Big Weekend for Book Festivals!

What Scott McCloud Did Before Understanding Comics

All Your Prize Are Belong to Dybek

It's a Movie Tie-In! It's an Oprah Pick! (Or Not!)

The Novel That Wasn't There

Baen, Subterranean Team Up for Sci-Fi Ebooks

Teen Read Week? Make That Teen Read Month!

Two More Guys and You've Got the Village People

Library of America Unveils 2nd Philip K. Dick Omnibus

Please Excuse the Semi-Detached Tone of Late

Kilmer-Purcell Lets MySpace Pick His Next Title

Oprah's Next Book? I Got Nothing—You?

Nat'l Book Foundation Picks "5 Under 35"

Two Humorists Team Up for Risqué Business

How 9/11 Changed Our Relationship to the News

A Two-Night Revival for Porgy & Bess

Touchstone Unveils New Crop of Aspiring Writers, While Publishing First Batch

Outside the Office, Editor Has 2nd Life as Poet-Novelist

Yet Another Panel Discussion on Book Reviews

This Week in mediabistro.com Book Parties

Your Monday Morning Book Trailer

The Secret Origins of Spider-Man

Garrison Keillor Basks in Steinbeckian Aura

Sci-Fi Book Club Editor Now @ Wiley

elsewhere on mediabistro.com: Meet Kate Epstein

Nat'l Book Fest to Leave DC With Bushes?

Scene @ Ballantine's "Better Your Life" Party

Carrying Subversive Literature on Int'l Flights Will Get You Noticed, But Tom Clancy's OK For Now

UK Agent's Resignation Creates Literary Sh*tstorm

Scene @ New York's Look Book Party

AFK BRB. Meanwhile, Book Trailers!

Meanwhile, Back at the Hall of Justice...

Kid Lit Experts Converge on Katonah

Will the Book Party Have a Mosh Pit?

Akashic Books Has a Posse

Tarot Memoirist Draws Winning Hand

Go Do a Crossword Puzzle or Something

"A Novel" Is Busting Out All Over

Bill Clinton Stocks Up on Reading Material

Scene @ RWA's Golden Apple Awards

Enjoy a Book Trailer While I Get Organized!

McMichael Gets $25K Poetry Fellowship

Paul Muldoon Takes Over New Yorker Poetry Desk

They're Just Not That Into James Frey

D+Q Puts Their Accountant on Staff

Have You Read These Yet?

Scene @ Tuesday Night's Parties

Scene @ Actors at Work Launch Party

Superhero Novelist Declares "Geek-Lit Throwdown"

It's Almost a GalleyCat Reunion

Bookstores Didn't Blow Potter Windfall

Scene @ Akashic Books Fall '07 Launch Party

Beauty and the Book Back in Business

If I Did It Back to Press

Wanna Be America's Best Book Reviewer?

NYTBR Adds New Bestseller List

Scene @ (Downtown) Omaha Lit Fest

Scene @ Brooklyn Book Festival

Can Trade Paperbacks Save Literary Fiction?

Have You Read These Yet?

New Age Experts Fight Over World's End

Nautilus Book Awards Now Accepting Submissions

Anybody Else Fed Up with Oprah?

Travis Bickle, Patron Saint of Bloggers?

Scene @ Nightlight Launch Party

Medieval French Scholar Hits Million-Franc Jackpot

"The Dragon Is Gone": Robert Jordan, 1948-2007

Now Let's Look at Book Trailers!

Brooklyn Literati Come Out and Play

elsewhere at mediabistro.com: Self-Publishing Ruins Author/Agent Friendship

Hedge Fund Mistress Goes to Washington?

Dominick Dunne Tells FBLA His Literary Plans

Have You Read These Yet?

Spare Us Oprah Winfrey's "Ethical Dilemmas"

GalleyCat Army: Still Ready to Pounce!

Why Denise Brown Went Back to Oprah

You Heard Me: James Frey Sold a Novel

Book Critics Still Wringing Hands Over Bloggers

Meet Anna Nicole's Widower's Lawyer!

The Case of the Misidentified Manuscript

Far Beneath the Ship, The World Is Mourning

James Frey Sells Novel to HarperCollins

OJ's Ghostwriter, Dominick Dunne Join Forces With Goldmans, Provide Supplementary If I Did It Material

Denise Brown Goes Back to Oprah? YES!

Well, I See By the Clock on the Wall...

New Literary Editor for The Nation

Scott Moyers Won't Be A Junior Jackal

Michel Leaves William Morris UK for PFD

The Corporate Side of Booksigning

Eggers Youngest to Win Heinz Foundation Award

UMich Press Halts, Then Okays Distribution of Anti-Israel Book

AAP Criticized by Open Access Advocates

B&N To Release Exclusive Music CDs

Bertram/THE Merger May Mean More Jobs

More Book Reviews at Post, Not Less?

Saunders on Letterman

Susan Minot's Complicated Hollywood Saga

NY Post Officially Kills Book Reviews?

Unorthodox Book Coverage Deemed Error by Oregonian Editors

9/11 Novels Don't Stack Up to Non-Fiction

Richard & Judy Choose Best Books for Children

Error Costs Church Half a Million Pounds

Reed Elsevier Hires Lobbyist

TurnHere Adds Partners, Launches Customizable Widget Player

Scene @ The Sabotage Café Launch Party

Scene @ Friday Night Parties

Didion, Gross to Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards

Quill Awards Announced

On Madeleine L'Engle

How A.N. Wilson Got Left Off the Booker Shortlist

Prison Libraries Purge Books on Faith

Web 2.0 Status for Google Books - With Possible Charges in Effect

Bloomsbury Partners with Qatar Financial

Author Boycotts Literary Festival in Political Protest

Wiley Overall Sales Rise

Holtzbrinck Gets Into Podcasting in a Big Way

Eliot Fremont-Smith Dies at Age 78

Rosie Complains About Publisher Typos

Who Else Is In If I Did It?

Book Keeping: You Want Lunch? Show Me 4 Pages

Scene @ Jews and Power Party

One Last Dog Photo (Until I Cave In Again)

UK Booksellers Missing Out on Manga, Publishers Warn

Hachette Continues to Mark European Territory

China Blocks Travel Guides

B&N Settles Stock Option Lawsuits

Potter Spurs 20% Sales Burst in July

Your Booker Prize Shortlist

Romanos Retires as S&S CEO

Preliminary Settlement for AMS and B&T

Marcia! Marcia! Marcia Has a Book Deal!

Lulu Gets Pissed About Hulu, Files Lawsuit

The Next, Still Pessimistic Chapter for E-Books

Reading Program Launched for Hispanic Heritage Month

BA Pulls No Punches About Bertram/Woolworths Merger Decision

Ingram's MyLibrary Joins up with Subscription Service

Waterstone's Sales Boosted by HP7

Viner Accuses Goldmans of "Gross Exploitation"

Clinton Discusses Giving at Children's Zone

Britain Finally Embraces the Graphic Novel

Is Contacting 800 Agents a Smart Idea?

Halberstam Selected As Next Out of the Book Author

Houghton Publicist Turns Agent; Dutton Publicist Steps In

Kasparov Blames Book Delay on Russian Government

School Magazine is Treasure Trove of Early Auden Poems

10 Months In, A Tepid Response to the Sony Reader

Bloomsbury Reshuffles At the Top

After Napster Payout, Bertelsmann Still Keen to Acquire

Book Reviews Don't Have to Suck

Beaufort Prepping New If I Did It Cover?

Greenspan: Will You Respect His Authoritas?

When Authors Turn Reclusive

Click. Click Again. Repeat.

Ann Packer's Dark World

Five Years, That's All We've Got

Competition Commission Clears Bertrams/Woolworths Merger

Who Publishes, Who Benefits?

Publishing in China: Beijing Book Fair Leftovers

First Half Sales Slow for Random House

At the Delhi Book Fair, Focus Goes to the Trade

Bertelsmann Splits Direct Group in Two

Askew Bought By The Little Group

Endeavor Picks Coyne Out of Rugged Land Rubble

Asimov's Dominates Sci-Fi's Hugo Awards

Someone Publish This Guy's Book! (or at least write him back)

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