Archives: September 2008
An Arts Editor Responds to the Book Review Crisis
Soothing Spine Novels
Life in the Book Review Vacuum
GalleyCat Hits the Lecture Circuit
The Bookshelf of Burned Love
Two New Imprints Spring Up in the Midwest
Guest Essay: Samantha Ettus on Turning a "No" into a "Yes"
When Does Your Literary Novel Become a Success?
Reading Banned Books, and Cooking With Them, Too
SIBA BBQ Brings New England, Southern Publishers Together
Platforms Are SO 2007: How's Your Personal Branding?
Writing Without Insurance
We Are Living in a Badly-Written Novel
What Do 325,000 People Want To Read?
Burning Question
Authors Guild to Courts: Don't Judge Laura Albert So Harshly
AvantGuild: "An Omnivorous Appetite for Nonfiction"
Finally, Some Novelists Who Like John McCain!
We Must Act Now to Save American Poetry
Sherry Jones Reacts to UK Jewel of Medina Firebombing
If You See A Mixed Metaphor, Say Something!
Mark Batterson: Behind Personal Development, God's Power
The Unofficial John Berryman Rock & Roll Concordance
Writers Continue to Show Support for Obama
Mark Twain Draws Support Across American Literary Landscape
Exclusive Interview with Jeffrey Friedman, Director of Howl
Housing Works Moves Street Fair to Sunday
Seth Godin Gets the Business Week Treatment
Wall Street Bailout Books
Poetry G.P.S.
Why Should We Care About Your Story?
The End of MINX
Crowdsourcing the Book Cover
The Plates Are Cleared, It's Time for the Group Photo!
FBNY Knew About That Sharon Bush Memoir Ages Ago
Hey, Wait: The Book Industry Just Slipped Into Chaos!
Ten Years in the Making, and a Big Impression on the Right Editor
"Reading Burma" in Pictures
Jumping Off the Carousel Before It Slows Down
Like Mama Mia!, Except with Yuppies and Chainsaws
The Easily-Overlooked Art of Agent Research
What's Black and White and Red All Over? Books About Dick Cheney, Apparently
Must He Paint You a Picture?
AvantGuild: Katharine Sands Wants Good Fiction Bad
Oh, To Be Young...
Poet Released From Prison
How To Cut 140,000 Words Off Your Manuscript
Save Mark Twain's Home!
Preparing for the Battle of the Book Apps
Gloom, Doom, and New York Books
A Young Boy's Fantasy Becomes a Local Bestseller
Kirk Read Wins 1st Open Door Contest
Let's Think About Content Fragmentation, Shall We?
A Newly Classic Example of Morissettian Irony
Scene @ Edgar Bronfman's Hope, Not Fear Party
After a 300,000-Copy Summer, Finally: Success!
Three of This Year's MacArthur Geniuses Are Literary
Stuff White People Get
Moby Dick Hits the Smallest Screen
Batman Versus The Novelist
2008 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Announced
New York's Romance Writers Celebrate Golden Apples
Another Wave of Literati Rally 'Round Obama
Tom Peters Loves Blogs Too Much to Do Another Book
There's a Place Called Omaha, Nebraska
Nextbook Celebrates Latest (and First) Jewish Encounters
55 Percent of all GalleyCat Readers Can't Be Wrong
Book-into-Movie Alchemy
What Can 10 Million Internet Users Teach Publishers?
YA Voters of the World, Unite!
How Did You Handle the Death of Publishing?
The New Best Blog-to-Book Deal Ever (And Dreams of How to Top It)
Bestselling NY Times Columnist Seeks Unpaid Research Assistants To Finish New Book
I Am That Am, And I Approve This Message
Can Mom and Pop Operations Rescue Publishing?
Who Should Be Slashed?
Avast! Talk Like A Pirate Day Be Upon Us Again Already?
Kids' Authors Rally to Spur a Young Reader's Legacy
Brokeback 33 Percent
Rhode Island Is Famous for Jhumpa Lahiri, Or Will Be Soon
Could Sci-Fi Get Too High-Falutin' For Its Own Good?
Our Fearless Leader Needs Your Advice, Freelancers!
You're Reading 2008's Best Publishing Industry Blog
Workman Shakes Up Its Publicity Department
Endless Summer
The Sexiest Book Party Ever
Hitchhiker Thumbs Again
AvantGuild: Jessa Crispin Reinvents the Book Review Section
What's A Summer Without Harry Potter Look Like?
Book Publishing Is SO Dying, Insists Reader!
The YA Scene @ Brooklyn Book Fest
Who Needs to Write Books, Anyway?
Vanity Fair: Literature Wields No Power Today
Who Are the Literati Shaping the World of Tomorrow?
David Foster Wallace's First Story Republished
Eat, Drink, Write
What Would Jack London Think about Sarah Palin?
Publishing Is Really Dead, This Time For Sure, Honest!
Hitchens Take Heart: NYTBR Also Finds Women Unfunny
One Agent's Tribute to David Foster Wallace
Field Dispatches from the Brooklyn Book Fest
It Was a Cruel, Cruel Summer for Bookstores
AvantGuild: It's OK to Turn Down a Book Deal
McCain's Monkey Business
Saying Goodbye To David Foster Wallace
Hirsute, Howl, and James Franco
Al Gore's Slideshow Specialist Takes Her Expertise Wide
Predicting Oprah's Tastes: This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method In it!
Uncovering Another Book on Sarah Palin's Blacklist
So How Was the Brooklyn Book Festival?
Are the Sunday Chat Shows Ready for the Country? At CBS, the Answer Is Yes
Obama's Challenge Makes it to Fox News
David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008
Bob Mould Autobiography Goes To Little Brown
No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Mark of the Beast?
Dispatches from BookAgentLand
POD Publishers Not Responsible for Defamation, Says Judge
HarperStudio Unveils Its Acquisitions, Also a Blog
mediabistro.com Is Sponsoring a Video Contest
John Hodgman Explains It All for You
The Obscene Life of Barney Rosset
You Tell Us: What's Oprah's New Favorite Book?
Go Ask Alice, But Don't Let Sarah Palin Find Out
Ryan Adams Back Behind His Typewriter
The Most Litigated Pulp Fiction Story in History
Say It Like Obama Wouldn't
Holy $#!!, Batman! Obscenity-Laden Comic Recalled
You've Got Some Alternate Picks for Oprah...
It's a Book Trailer! It's a Cat Picture! You Can't Say You Weren't Warned
FishbowlLA: Bad PR Techniques in Action!
The Boatman's Books
Yar, Publishers Protected from Piracy
GalleyCat Predicts: Oprah's Picking Edward P. Jones
Let's Turn the Book PR Model Upside-Down
Reissuing a Novel Online, With Bonus Features
A Celebration of Jewish Alternative Comics
Orbit Promotes, Hachette Hires
Giving It Away, Faster Than Ever
AvantGuild: Boston's "High Priestess" of Book Deals
Book Trailers: So Easy a 16-Year-Old Can Make 'Em
Only Sarah Palin Knows What Books She'd Ban (If Any)
Chelsea Green Tries Offering More People That Amazon Discount
How Long's That Bookstore Been Around? 32 Years, You Say?
FishbowlNY: Blogger, Author, Jeopardy Champion
Recreating a Fashion Movement That Never Existed
Can You Write a Micro-Novel From a Chocolatey Word List?
RDR Books on the Rowling Ruling
J. K. Rowling and the Favourable Resolution
What's An Aspiring Writer To Do?
Robert Giroux, 1914-2008
Literary Agent Opens Her Blog to Authors' Advice & Experience
It's Like That Time Every Network Had an Amy Fisher TV-Movie!
"Lavender Queen" Turns Author Website into Non-Profit Fundraiser
Hannah Upp, NYC School Teacher, Missing Since 8/29
Morgan James, Rick Frishman Answer Their Critics
Free Advice for Authors on Sundays
Beaufort Is Publishing The Jewel of Medina in US
GalleyCat Up for Some Book Blog Appreciatin'
Authors, Be Warned
Hey, Diaz! Save Some Awards for the Rest of Us!
Times Futurist Leaves on Potentially Hopeful Note for Book World
Publishing Industry Now Stable With Modest Decline?
Who Doesn't Love Kickboxing Philosopher-Monks?
UK's Gibson Square Snaps Up Jewel of Medina
John McCain's Little Golden Book
Publishing's Top Execs on the Books They'll Push Hardest Next Year
FishbowlNY: The Book Party Republicans Didn't Want in St. Paul
The Interwebs Resolve Our Questions Quickly
A Question in Lieu of a Fall Books Preview
Are Big Publishers Strangling the Short Story?
Sarah Palin, Book Banner?
Readerville's New Literary Microblog Playground
AvantGuild: Turning a Fundraiser's Life into Fiction
Don't Let Superman's Birthplace Fall Into Ruin
How Big Is a Bulk Order, Anyway?
Mercantile Center Announces 2008 First Novel Shortlist
Deep Glamour Hits the Blogosphere
Can Book Blogs Become Self-Sustaining?
It's Time for Publishers to Sort All Their Cover Art
Meeting America's Demand for the Sarah Palin Story
This Year's Politics, Already in a Funhouse Mirror
It's Deja Vu All Over Again
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