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Archives: October 2007

You Pick This Year's Best Short Story Collections

They Made a Movie of Radio Free Albemuth?!?

UnBeige: The United Colors of Alice Sebold

An Editor's Angstful Cry Draws Mixed Reactions

Almost Moon Doggerel Sweepstakes Completed

You Have Your Doubts About "Trick Lit"

Sure, Jerry, That'll Defuse the Situation

Wandering "Book Festival" Contest Goes Global

"Long Tail" Expert Gives Publicists Short Shrift

Junot Diaz Wins Sargent First Novel Prize

It Was An Experiment, And You Were Part of It

Your Sobering Industry Evaluation for the Morning

Here's A Crime Reporter With a Real Inside Scoop

Checking Out the New Kinokuniya

Story Prize Judges for 2007 Announced

Scene @ the CLMP Spelling Bee

"Trick Lit": Is There Really Any Out There?

The Book Trailer We Can't Show You at Work

No More Editing for Jason Pinter, Only Writing

NYT 's Last Ditch Effort to Recloset Dumbledore

Quick Hits: Atlantic Re-Orgs, Mac/Cage Goes to PGW

Diaz: Let's See More Respect for Comics Writers

How to Sell Comics to Mainstream Bookbuyers?

Ride Shotgun With Greg Lindsay As He Writes His Book

Talk About Your Exquisite Corpses: Mystery Writers Assemble Evidence on B&N Chat Board

Fup of Powell's Technical Books, 1988-2007

Giving It Away in Bits and Pieces, With Blogger Middlemen

Unsold Manuscripts Transformed into Marketing Giveaways

GalleyCat: Now With Equal Time for Dogs

For Reviewers, Reliable Is Better Than Nice

Lazard Frères Exposé Wins Goldman/FT Book Prize

Upping the Book Trailer Stakes: Big-Screen Heavies!

Doug Brinkley's Snake River Canyon Detour

Rare Book Dealers of the World, Unite! Or You'll Have Nothing to Use But the Chains

Great Moments in PR Packaging

More Periods + Fewer Syllables = Bigger Royalty Check?

Duke, Beacon, Amazon Join the Blogosphere

Tony Blair Signs With Knopf

NSFW Title Keeps Erotic Fanfic Out of B&N

Scene @ the Whiting Writers' Awards Reception

Britney's Mom Sold a Parenting Memoir?

"Make Something Worth Paying For"

Univ. of Michigan To Keep Distributing UK Press Critical of Israel

1st Man Asian Literary Shortlist Unveiled

Too Mean? Some Find Book Reviewers Overprotective

Two Developments at One Story

More in Book Reviewer Gaffes, Biblical Division

Who Shows Authors Rejected Proposals, Anyway?

We Should All Have Such Friends

Publishers Clean Up As Tech Companies Duke It Out?

You Want Real Mean? Try the Internet

Could Critical Vitriol Be An Asset?

Do We Like The Same Books? Go Away!

Publishing Workers Surprised to Discover "They" Were Surveyed

Ricky Jay Owns the Coolest Posters Ever

Come Watch the Literati Kick My Butt

More on That Alleged NYTBR Mean Streak

I Say It's Spinach, And I Say The Hell With It

"Incloseto Putbacko!": More Dumbledore Reactions

Open Door Project Launches Big Gay Writing Contest

Memoir as Springboard to Cultural Snapshot

OK, We're Shutting the Freezer Now...

Nora Roberts' Fans Snag Her 2nd Quills Prize

Calling This Video "A Delight" Would Be Cliched

Come Party With GalleyCat and Janice Eidus

Random House Voted Best Publishing Workplace

Classical Music History's Online Marketing Hits the Right Notes

Scene @ DC's Gilded Lili Party

If You Hated If I Did It...

Who Gets to Be a Bestseller?

Oh, Mom, Poor Mom, The Critics Left You in the Freezer and I'm Feeling So Numb

Obscure Literati Cry Out for Amazon's Attention

Chip Kidd Gets Down With His Prize-Winning Self

J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore Was Gay

What Makes For Good Anonymous Tips?

Scene @ October 11's Parties

Scene @ Ferenc Máté's Wine Tasting

A Sneak Peek at Presentation Zen

Scene @ Paradiso Launch Party

I'm Taking This Show on The Road

Meet Your Nat'l Book Award Fiction Shortlist

Valerie Plame's Memoir In (Some) Stores Now

The NYTBR And The Case of the Misplaced Corpse

Apparently, People Feel Strongly About Kola Boof

Conservative Publication Spikes Libertarian Book Review

Scene @ Lambda's What Becomes You Reading

The Clintons Ate My Homework, and Other Right-Wing Publishing Tales

Gawker, Schmawker: I Hated Steve Almond First

Still Not The Way The World Works

POLL: Is It a Shame About Ray?

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Never Make a Journalist a Dissatisfied Customer

Shock Begins to Fade from True Crime?

Anna Stein's Greatest Week Ever?

Book Keeping: Nice Work If You Can Get It

Did Bill Clinton's New Book Peak Early?

Recently on the Lecture Circuit

Dune: Third Time the Charm?

Contents of Second Philip K. Dick Compendium Revealed

Simon & Schuster Taps NYC Film Students to Make Ads

Anne Enright Wins Man Booker Prize

Kola Boof Wins Swedish "Woman to Woman" Award

"Class of 2K7" Hits Seattle-Area Bookstores

Scene @ Lowell Celebrates Kerouac

GalleyCat: Your Source for Literary Page Six Items

Children's Book Illustrators, Bloggers, Unite Against Sarcoma

High School Parents Find Essay A Bit TOO Personal

NYT Op-Ed Comics Artist Coming to NYC

Bookstores Still Making Up Lost Ground with Potter

Got Any News from Frankfurt?

What a Carve-Up!

Are Comics Artists Painting Themselves Into a Corner?

Nobel Laureate Making New Friends Online

Skills to Pay the Bills With Thrills and Chills

Nobel Academy Stokes Gore Fan Base's Pipe Dreams

One Design Wizard, Two Emerald Cities

Are You From Jersey?

Audiobooks Get Big Push in Atlanta

Every Book Festival Should Have a Pub Crawl

Scene @ Pamela Erens' Understory Party

Daring Girls Ready to Break Loose

Red-Letter Days for Thomas Nelson

Doris Lessing: Best Nobel Reaction Ever

Nation Seeks Ridenhour Book Prize Nominees

August Book Sales Up Nearly 10 Percent

It Really IS a Small World, After All

Sci-Fi Novel's Marketing Campaign Idealized by Marketers

The Month-Long Nat'l Book Award Debate Begins

Death or Glory Becomes Just Another Story

Scene @ Tuesday Night's Parties

Doris Lessing Wins Nobel

More Nonfiction Authors Embracing Online Video

GalleyCat Returns to Literary Writers Conference

Animated Trailer Combines Twentysomethng Angst, Strippers

How Lucy Found a Home at Skylight

Poetry Foundation's Pegasus Awards Presented

Book Keeping: Authors on mediabistro.com

Today's Buzzword: "Widgets"

What's Your Take on the Nat'l Book Awards?

The Last "Oldest Library" Post, I Promise!

Meet Your National Book Awards Shortlist

Finalists For Canada's Giller Prize Announced

What's the Oldest Library in America?

A Book Trailer That Shows a Little Skin

Closing Chapter For an Indie Bookstore Fixture

What's That Book Prize Really Worth?

Book Pros by Day, Lit Mag Editors By Night

Celebrate Alice Sebold's New Novel in Song

Book Trailer of the Living Dead

11th Hour Reprieve for Eso Won?

Thien Wins Canadian First Novel Award

Edelman's Love Life Still Media Fodder

Now The Washington Post Has a Book Blog

Holtzbrinck Rechristens Itself Macmillan

New Yorker Delves into Comic Books

Sometimes an Embargo Holds Strong

Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow: iPhone Kills Newsprint?

Newsweek Declares Winner in War and Peace Skirmish

I'm Walking Here, I'm Walking Here

Still More Thought to 2007's Debut Women Writers

Speaking of Overlooking Women Writers, What's Up With Oprah?

Visiting Hours with the Whiskey Robber

Should Claudio Magris Start Packing for Stockholm?

Scene @ The Gawker Book Party

Gabo Is Coming!: Or, Latin American Literature's Biggest Day EVER

Good News Now Delivered on Green Paper

Now That's What I Call Turnaround

Comics Femme Noir Headed to Small Screen?

Jane Friedman: Books, Authors Our Main Assets

Good News, Bad News for LA Indie Bookshops

Scene @ Dogs I Have Met Party

Scene @ Susan Shapiro's Book Party

More Literary Stuff What Is Being Given Away Online

Finally, A Practical Use for Margaret Atwood's Robot Arm

A Few More New Women Writers for Your Consideration

No, You're Not Tripping, That Book Cover Totally Changed, Man

Mizrahi the Latest Designer with a Stylish Book Deal

She Lands Book Deal, You Pick the Title

Theroux: Forty Years On, Feeling More Distance

2nd Annual Cybils Renew Focus on Kid Lit

Academy Taps Notley for "Most Outstanding" Poetry of 2007

Rona Jaffe Foundation Recognizes Six Emerging Writers

Scene @ Last Weekend's Book Fairs

Forget Your Troubles, C'mon Get Happy

2007: A Bad Year for New Women Writers?

Book Reviews A Lure for the Moneyed?

Scene @ Zoom Party

Debate Over Banned Books Week Continues

Scene @ Thurber Prize Reception

Scene @ The Party of Living Biblically

Blogs Will Drag Us Down into Conformity

Banned Books Week: Self-Congratulatory Hype?

"Productivity Guru" Rather Aptly Named

B&N Enlists Literati To Sell Books Online

Book Keeping and other mediabistro.com Matters

Publishing Biz Experiences Synergy Surge

Naomi Wolf Presses Administration, Scores Hit

Only Marcia's Diary Knows for Sure

A Café Chat with Ellen Litman

GalleyCat Needs Spies in Frankfurt

Monday Morning Videos: Contortions and Self-Recriminations

They Allow Dancing in New England? Since When?

Tragedy Clears Way for Funky Winkerbean Reboot

Penguin UK Old School Take on Today's Hits

Called Out By Her Reviewer, A Panned Author Answers Back

Nobody Dared to Give Them a Blender

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