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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!
Hyperion Reorg Includes A New "Digital Marketing" Department
Sunday, Bloody Sunday: Wieseltier Goes on the Offensive
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
"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"
James Twitchell: Plagiarizing for God
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
Scene @ Sloane Crosley's Helmut Lang Book Party
Steel Yourself For James Frey's First 'Bright Shiny Morning' Reading!
The Most Important YA Novel of This Election Year
If They Gave Out Pulitzers for Understatement...
Small Beer's Second Free Download of the Month
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!
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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!
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
