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Archives: April 2008

Are "Women's Fiction" Book Jackets Anti-Feminist?

Margaret "B. Jones" Seltzer's 'Love And Consequences" Promo Video

Creating an "Antidote" to Our Dystopian Futures

Whither Indie Publishing? "I Don't Know"

"And So Live Ever—Or Else Swoon to Death"

Bookstore-Hoaxing Gang Impersonates Mark Sarvas and Nick Hornby!

Silver's Lining

Hyperion Reorg Includes A New "Digital Marketing" Department

Cocktails at Tiffany's

Sunday, Bloody Sunday: Wieseltier Goes on the Offensive

Why are Authors Selling Cars?

It's Fun When Alternative Bands Namecheck Writers!

And the Lifetime Achievement Award goes to... Peter Lovesey

Hollywood Pros Who Have a Way with Prose

Franzen v Kakutani

"Postcards From Yo Momma" Blog To Become A Book!

PEN World Voices Kicks Off Tonight

The 2008 PEN Literary Gala Was Fancy

The "Sullen Punk Rock" Version of Vidal & Didion

Sometimes I Wonder If Augusten Burroughs And James Frey, Like, Hang Out Ever.

Ron Currie, Jr.: NYPL's Newest Young Literary Lion

Are You Secure Enough to Take the One-Star Challenge?

James Frey's Last Interview? We Shall See

Backstage at the LA Times Festival of Books

Scene @ LA Times Book Prize After-Party

So I've Got This Reading Wednesday Night...

Checking In with Dutton's One Last Time

Director of 'The Secret' Movie Asks, Believes, Doesn't Receive, And Sues

Did The Ghost of Vladimir Nabokov Tell His Son To Go Ahead And Publish His Unfinished Novel?

"Cause I'm Glossy, And I'm Saucy, And I'm Down To Be Your Mr. Darcy"

Granta's New Blog Is Rad

James Twitchell: Plagiarizing for God

A Sad Young Literary Man

Of Course We're Relegated to the Back Entrance

Scene @ Arianna's Quantum Wellness Party

Michael Chabon Can Haz Nebula!

Subterranean on top in Locus Awards

Unboring Lit Links: Politics, Rapprochements, And Sex With Norman Mailer

"Crisis" Averted in San Francisco?

Scene @ Like a Rolling Stone Book Party

Publishers Report Stable But Modest Growth for February

Scene @ Overlook's party for The Wentworths

Geek Debate: Should German Wikipedia Be A Book?

The (Long-Awaited) Return of Jack O'Connell

Of Course He Bought Books He Hasn't Read!

Starbucks Book Club Goes to the Dogs

"Enough With the Cake Already"

'I Was Told There'd Be Cake' Continues To Climb The 'Times' Bestseller List

The Cake At Sloane Crosley's Book Party Was Sort Of Underwhelming

Let Them Eat Cake

Scene @ Sloane Crosley's Helmut Lang Book Party

Ballantine Deals

Steel Yourself For James Frey's First 'Bright Shiny Morning' Reading!

The Most Important YA Novel of This Election Year

Babies Having Babies Books

If They Gave Out Pulitzers for Understatement...

Get Your Nouvelle Cuisine On

Small Beer's Second Free Download of the Month

From Stage to Book

Nat Rich's Book Has A Very Fancy Website

Chinese Publisher Plagiarizes Web Site for Coffee Table Book

Edith Wharton's Home on Brink of Foreclosure

"Superman Loves You... And He's A Lot More Proactive Than God Ever Was!"

It Would Be Easier With Stormtroopers

Let's Check In On Some Old Friends

UnBeige: Have I Got a Bible for You!

"I Need to Grow the Hell Up"

Unboring Lit Links: Judging Nathaniel Rich, Ogling Denis Johnson And Making Fun of Margaret Seltzer

Some Of Your Favorite Authors Are Writing Branded Short Fiction For Lexus

We're Not Done Talking About Generation X Yet

What Recession? Bookstores Hanging In There

Paging Dr. Blogstein

In Case You Were Wondering What It's Like To Be Married To Martin Amis!

Signet's Just Not That Into Cassie Edwards Anymore

Last Call at Elaine's Creates a Rush

Literati Take In the Comic Con Scene

You Heard It Here First Dept.: Missing the Last Lecture

Reviewer Gets the Shaft. MacGillivray, Amazon to Blame

Harry Potter and the Wait for the Verdict

Report from Romantic Times Booklovers Convention

When Fan Worlds Collide: Scene @ NY Comic Con

Does Sloane Crosley's Publicist have the Weirdest Job in Publishing?

Abby Sher Will Show You How to Get Things Done

"No Tortured Artist/Mad Genius Stuff Here"

"11 Central Ave" Features Authors, Yours Truly

Authors Have A Complicated Relationship With The Internet

And It's Only 10% the Normal Infomercial Length, Too!

Reading is Fundamental: 'In The World But Not Of It' And 'Rapture Ready'

Michael Chabon's Award Collecting Season Begins

"Let Me Tell You About My Goddess Books"

Scene @ Scott Heim's We Disappear Reading

I Got My Picture Taken With STAN LEE!
(Also, He Got Some Lifetime Achievement Award)

Canadian Author Mad at Publishing, Eh

Scene @ Welcome to Shirley Launch Party

What Do Authors Think Of No-Advance Publishing?

Creating a Book Jacket Out of Spare Body Parts

Even the Library of America Has Book Trailers Now

Pat Strachan On Publishing's Last Days Of Disco

FishbowlNY: Melissa Walker Makes a Splash

Meet Your Winning Sex & Sensibility Gag Writer

Lee Siegel Still Hates the Blogosphere

Penguin Loves The Forests

Maybe Jonathan Miles can Guest Blog for AA

Facebook's "Visual Bookshelf" App Totally Annoying

There Is No Future, and England's Dreaming: British Dystopia Wins Tiptree Award

Trolls, Flamewars, and Harriet Klausner: Deep Inside The Strange World Of Amazon

'Millionaire Matchmaker' Patti Stanger's Six-Figure Book Deal

Authors Behaving Badly

AvantGuild: Where Have You Gone, Ida Tarbell?

"That Right Young Man Living in an Otherwise Hysterical Home"

A Moment of Blatant Self-Promotion Excused by Plugging Others, Too

Just Two Questions: 'How To Be Useful' Author Megan Hustad Explains How To Succeed In Publishing By Actually Trying

Harry Potter and the Copyrighted Compendium

How Many Of The '110 Best Books' Have You Read?

Harry Potter Lexicon Verdict Could Spark (or Squelch) Larger Spinoff Market

Martin Amis: Chucklehead or Moral Provacateur?

Random Gawker Mention Leads to Book Deal

Burroughs Scores with New Audiobook

Authorized Babyshambles Bio "Will Be Written By The Band's Members And Their Entourage"

Last Lecture Even Hotter Than Expected

Comic (Book) Genius Phoebe Gloeckner Gets A Guggenheim Fellowship

Laura Bush Invades Today to Promote Book

Ernest J. Gaines Award Seeks Nominees

Pam Anderson Ready to Smash the Marketplace

Harry Potter and the Presentation of Power(point)

James Cañón: Every Debut Fiction Jury's Fave?

Harry Potter and the Testimony of Fire

Four Unboring Lit Links: Deals, Drinking, and Hitting On Sloane Crosley

Chuck Norris Jumps On The Chuck Norris Book Bandwagon

Today's Word That You Only Ever Hear In Book Reviews Is "Lapidary"

Harry Potter and the Fate of Reviews

Harry Potter and the Lawsuit of Doom

He Said, She Said: Dispute Over Vegas Book Continues

FishbowlLA: Sexography Memoirist Raises Awareness (and Funds) Online

Lipton Ready to Share Her Agent-Acquiring Secrets

Scene @ Simon Doonan's Eccentric Glamour Signing

What Are They Talking About at the 4th Annual New York Round Table Writers' Conference?

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Golden Delicious Sounds Like "Free Food for Millionaires"

Are You Dork Enough To Download A PDF Of Michael Chabon's 'Spiderman 2' Script?

People Are Eating Up Sloane Crosley's 'Cake'

Facebook Guy, Dooce Doing Better Than We'd Imagined

How One Novel Landed Its Backside Cover Art

Chick Lit War Ceasefire! Sittenfeld-Weiner Peace Accord Reached

Vegas History Not "Rife with Mistakes," Says Aggrieved Author

"Today's Model Is Playing Ellie, A Magical Sorceress"

Authors Rally Online to Raise Funds for Rape Victims

Scene @ Fairhope, Alabama's Restored Writers Cottage

I Can Haz Book Deel Twos?

Six Unboring Lit Links: Winners, Losers, Gossip Girls, And Memoir Lies

Harper, Collins: Making Us See Red and Green

The 'Worst Fake Rap In A Novel' Award Goes To Tom Wolfe

Go On, Tell Us What You Really Think

And the Kafka Award Goes to...

Mailer Remembered @ Carnegie Hall: "Well, Why the F*** Not?"

Soho Wants to Reach out and iPod Touch You

Steve Almond Tackles Blogging, Blogging Wins (For Now)

Indie Publishers Weigh In On Bob Miller's New Unit

Two More Hyperion Execs Defect To HarperCollins

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Sell 'Em All and Let the Market Sort 'Em Out

PlanetOut Abandons Print Media, Sells Alyson to Gay TV Network

Ron Paul Late to Big Book Game, But Still Better Marketed Than Kucinich

Happy 175th Peterborough Town Library

Book Deal: Ward Shorts to Random House

Facebook "Inventor" Who Queried 800 Agents Opts To Self-Publish

Another "Literary Dealbreaker": Is Goodreads A Dating Site?

Music Makes the Books Go Around

Cindy McCain Is Shopping A Book

For Publicists, Timing is Everything

How Much More Pink Could This Be? The Answer Is None. None More Pink.

Fans Get Free Copies of 2007's Best Sci-Fi, Pick Favorite

If You Recant a Blurb, Does Anybody Really Care?

"Chica Lit" Star Plans Direct Outreach to Latina Readers

Quirky but Brilliant Werewolf Poem Packaged with Equally Standout Design

OUP Publisher Fields Questions from the Blogosphere

At Last Night's Hubert's Freaks Event: Insanity and Hilarity Ensue

Unboring Book Blogs: They Exist!

Serious Woman Novelist Sees Red When She Sees Pink

Today is National Empanada Day - Who Knew?

Amazon, Putnam Pick Their $25K "Breakthrough" Writer

Three's A Trend: Whose Rap Pastiche Is Funniest?

"What You Love You Are"- Josephine Hart's Poetry evening at the NYPL

Scene @ Girls Like Us Launch Party

As Boomers Hit 60, Retirement Hot Nonfiction Topic

Advice for Abandoned Authors

Ira Silverberg: Keeping it Safe to Read in America

Free Works, Even If It's Not the Way BoingBoing Would Do It

Of What Import Are Brief, Nameless Prizes... to Junot Diaz?

Guinea Pig A.J. Jacobs Goes Back To The Lab For "Healthiest Human Being" Book

Not Just Another Novel By a Young American With a Goofy Title!

Death by Blog

Houghton and Gotham on the Links

They Might Even Be Shelved Together, Too!

One More "Backsides" Post, But That's It!

GalleyCat 3.0 Lineup Now Complete

'White Guy' Author Invented White People Humor, Actually

ASJA, PMA and Authors Guild Push for Anti-trust Suit Against Amazon/BookSurge

Oh My God, Liz Phair Is Writing A Novel

Vegas Book Reviewer Responds To Criticism

New Falcon Loses Founding Publisher

Bob Miller's New HarperCollins Unit Is Totally Going To Revolutionize Publishing!

"Somewhere in [Her Poetry] I Could Find Myself": Dianne Reeves on Gwendolyn Brooks

Help Caption A NSFW New Yorker-Style Cartoon

Reviewer Approaches Vegas History on Sliding Scale

Jhumpa Lahiri: The Way Bobos Live Now?

Book Trailers Get Animated, At Varying Levels of Tech

What's On Heidi and Spencer's Bookshelf?

'Office' Star John Krasinski Just Wants More People To Know About David Foster Wallace

Jumping On The 'White People' Bandwagon

Emily Gould Joins GalleyCat as Contributing Editor

Bob Miller Leaves Hyperion For HarperCollins

Josh Kilmer-Purcell Will Make You a Star!

Back of the Head Thing Spreads to Literati

Scene @ The Sex & Sensibility Party

FishbowlLA Points to Peggy Seltzer's Radical Past

Now That's What I Call a Book Trailer

BookSurge Hypes Anti-Zionist Conspiracy Theorists?

FishbowlNY Notes B&N Chelsea Closure

Full RSS Feeds for Everybody—W00t!

Seton Hall Arsonists Remain in Jail as Victims' Story Nears Bookstores

The Backside Cover That Never Got Out

Does Amazon's Shipping News Hold Water?

Moving Book Trailers into the Virtual World

A Few Bugs in the Paperless Office Yet?

Amazon's POD Push: From Squeeze-Out to Poach?

Jhumpa Lahiri Would Like Different Questions, Please

Amazon Puts the Muscle on POD Printers

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