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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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