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Archives: January 2008

Schafer Leaves Janklow For True Love, Own Agency

Jury for Thurber Prize Announced

Lots More Women Writers in the Sunday Paper

Ishmael Beah Still Sticks by His Memoir

Want to Save Book Sections? Write Better Reviews

Keeping the Manuscript Under Wraps, pt. 2

Anything to This Online Marketing Thing Yet?

Sony Reader Decked in Pink, Loaded with Romance

Oprah's Favorite New Age Self Help Book

Anonymous Readers Are a Cynical and Suspicious Lot

How to Keep a Manuscript Under Wraps?

"Is This Dylan Or Is This Donovan?"

"Ask for Faith, Then Live Up to It"

Scene @ Girls in Trucks Pre-Pub Party

Coming Soon: Dan Menaker's Webisodic Literary Discourse

Resolving That Women Authors in the Times Magazine Question

One Last Point About Charles Bock

Sheila McClear Tells Some About Her Memoir

Coming Soon: An Interview With Mark Stevens

I'm Pretty Sure It's Not a Blog-to-Book Deal

Bloggers Rally Online to Support Patry Francis

"Written Nerd" Gets $15K Biz Grant

No Secret to Charles Bock's Media Blitz

Oprah's Next Book Club Pick Comes Tomorrow

Oh God, Not Another Power Ballad Writing Contest

"Greatest American Novelist" Dies, Almost Unnoticed

Oh For the Love of Bock

Captain America, Is That You?

Literary Magazine Takes Roller Derby As Muse

One Step Closer to Adapting Entire Novels on YouTube

Insert Your Own "Desert Island Reading" Joke Here

I'm Not in the Trailer? Dang!

It's All Too Much?: More on the "Disappearing" Bestseller

Scene @ Spiegel & Grau Launch Party

A Quick Peek Inside the Sausage Factory

Tell Us How You Really Feel, Ursula K. Le Guin

Can't Wait for the I Can Has Cheezburger Book?

Where's Dan Brown's Book?, Part Two

Scene @ I'm Looking Through You Party

Scene @ Burns Night in Williamsburg

Thank God That's Over: Regan, News Corp. Settle

Yet Another "Where's Dan Brown's Book? Story

Scene @ mediabistro.com's Mirage Party

Simon & Schuster Floods the Zone with YA Authors

Scene @ The Blind Tasting for Wine and Love

Zen Habits Spinoff: Write to Done

Cheerios, S&S Give Nashville Woman Book Deal

November Good for Books All Over

Your House Is a Very, Very, Very Fine House

Book Trailers I Like: Bob Delaney's Covert

Bobby Fischer's Last Days in Icelandic Bookstore

America's Newspapers Already Preparing LOLcat Headlines

A.L. Kennedy Wins 2007 Costa Book Award

Is a Bestseller About to Disappear?

Bookstore Customers Showing Loyalty Above and Beyond

Who's Giving Harriet Klausner All That Love?

Observer: Bloomsbury Drops Annik LaFarge

AvantGuilders: Meet Literary Agent Nadia Cornier

Australian Counters: Ishmael Beah & FSG "Seriously Misrepresent" Facts

High-Tech Gloss on a Mid-20th-Century Kid's Classic

GalleyCat Finally Joins the YouTube Revolution

Are You Ready to Learn of the Power of Love?

Ishmael Beah: "My Story Is All True"

Scene @ the Reading for Other People

Pulpwood Queens: The Survivor's Tale

Fave Pics from the Pulpwood Queens "Ball of Hair"

Late Stats on 2007 Bookselling Show Promise

Curiosity: Liberating Ourselves from Mediocrity

Consumer-Friendly Alice Munro Not So New

Build Your Own Short Story Collection

What Are Blurbs For, When No One Listens Anymore?

16 Years Later, the Last Word on Amy Fisher?

Scene @ Pulpwood Queens Girlfriends Weekend

Classics Illustrated, Now Manga-Style

Australian Newspaper Questions Ishmael Beah's Memory

Why So Many Novelists Writing Comic Books?

Meet the New, Consumer-Friendly Alice Munro

YA Librarians Honor Sci-Fi Writer, Stir Hornet's Nest

Monday Morning Video: Julie Klausner Carves Up Diet Books

PW Chats With 2007's Kids Book Champs

Sharp @ HarperCollins Unveils Full Production Roster

NYTBR Chief : Extreme Reviews Balance Out

Rowling to Speak @ Harvard Commencement

Hanging Out with the Pulpwood Queens

One Last Stab at the Inger Wolfe Mystery

Scene @ A Shattered Peace Conference

Jennifer 8. Lee Shares Fortune Cookie With Media

Two Months from Concept to Final Draft

Lewis Black Headline Attraction at BEA

Steve Jobs: "People Don't Read Anymore"

Only 75 Days Until National Poetry Month!

Chip Kidd Shares the Inside of His Head

Who Else Isn't Inger Wolfe? Houghton Ain't Telling

Brokaw Concedes His '60s Should Have Been Gayer

The Most Useless Widget Devised By Human Hands

Becky Saletan Takes Over @ Post-Merger Houghton/Harcourt

The Bourgeois Amusement of the Graphic Novel

The Case of the Author Who Wasn't Jane Urquhart

Another Vote for Connecting to Readers with Blogs

Ginny Weissman Tapped as Sharlene Martin's Chicago Rep

Neyfakh Offers More on Schwalbe's Departure

Lark Books Relaunches Online as DIY Resource Center

Observer: Will Schwalbe Leaves Hyperion

Jerramy Fine's Cosmic Brush with Royalty

AvantGuild: "Blog to Raise Your Book's Profile"

Cassie Edwards Also Relied Upon Pulitzer-Winning Fiction

The Little Anthologies That Could

Book Culture Braces for Spring Semester Crunch

Readerville's Relaunch Pushes Content to Foreground, Overhauls Forums

Catching Up With Hal Leonard's Diane Levinson

Extending My (Other) Blog's Literary Enthusiasm Offline

Meet Your NBCC Awards Finalists

Signet: Cassie Edwards Situation "Deserves Further Review"

Do You Still Have Your Review Galleys? The Publisher Might Want Them Back

The Coffeeshop Writer's Center Is Already Go!

Your Cat Allergies Fail to Impress

Sayrafiezadeh: "I'm Going to Sirenland"

Daily Show Correspondents Use Downtime To Honor Their Own

If J.K. Rowling's Willing to Sue Her Fans, Why Not Idiots?

My Retail Concept: Let Me Tell You It

Scene @ The Kept Man Launch Party

Gordon Lish Alumnae Night @ KGB

Eggers, Adichie Call Attention to Africa @ 92Y

Scene @ Happy Ending's First 2008 Show

Update: Bookstores, Cats, Bookstore Cats

Romance Readers Still Furious at Cassie Edwards & Signet

Zen Blogger Even More Productive Than I'd Imagined

The First GalleyCat Cat Photo of 2008

AP: Cassie Edwards "Takes... From Reference Books"

Cassie Edwards' Publisher: She's No Plagiarist

American Author Finds Audience on Japanese Mobile Phones

What Did Troy CLE's "Imaginary Publicist" Really Do?

Please, God, Not the Return of "Lad Lit"

Who's Up for the Story Prize?

Is One of These Books Oprah's Next Pick?

What Do You Do When You're Good Enough to Swipe From?

Weitz Defends Golden Compass; Pullman Champions Milton

How's That Online Marketing Working Out?

Who's Up For the 2007 Philip K. Dick Award?

Is Oprah's Next Pick a $14 Plume Paperback?

Video: Biz Blogger Takes Seth Godin's New Title Literally

The Seinfeld Jokes Are Already Pouring In

WSJ Wastes No Time Building HarperCollins Synergy

Romance Novelist's Echoes of Earlier Authors Compiled

My PW Interview with David Hajdu

What's at Stake in Sneaky Chef vs. Seinfeld & Seinfeld?

Whatever Happened With That Wild Pitch Letter?

Why Should We Second-Guess Tom Wolfe a Year Early?

Don't Think You're Ready to Blog? Start Small

Book Industry Dominated by Conglomerates, Indie Publisher Reports

For This Snowman, Sales Were Too Darn Hot

Can Brooklyn's Literati Fight Off Bruce Ratner?

Digg'll Get You Noticed, But Will It Sell Books?

Monday Morning Video: Isabel Allende @ TED

Can Literature Breed Better Decision-Making?

What's Going On at the 92nd St. Y?

Getting Serious About Getting Online

"Mailed Dead Gopher to Publishing House?" Absolutely True!

Want a Book Deal That'll Do Some Real Good?

Can Viz Sell Its Hottest Manga Twice?

Are E-Textbooks Ready to Make the Grade?

Is the Tom Wolfe Deal Win-Win-Win?

What's the Key to Self-Publishing Success?

How Can Self-Publishers Crack the Distribution Problem?

Jon Scieszka: Great Ambassador for Kid Lit...or Greatest?

Who Will You Talk Up in 2008?

If Reading's At Risk, How'd Library Attendance Get So High?

Has Self-Publishing Become A Killer App?

Is Gawker's Sci-Fi Blog Worth the Wait?

What's Tom Wolfe Got to Say for Himself?

Could Nurturing Nerds Save Our Reading Culture?

Why'd Tom Wolfe Flip to Little, Brown?

What Are The Twin Cities Doing Right?

Who Will Be the Kid Lit Heroes of 2008?

Can Optional Ads See a Free E-Book Through?

But Have You Ever Seen His Picture on a Bubblegum Card?

Is Having An Imaginary Publicist So Wrong?

What's Chip Kidd Got for an Encore?

Wait, Kucinich Has a Book Out?

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