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Archives: October 2008

Exclusive Interview: Douglas the Poet Versus Joe the Plumber

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Coming Out Party

Dave Eggers Returns To Sudan

Mailbag Trick-or-Treat

Bringing Book Publishing Up to Speed

Books for a Better Life Nominees

Who Will You Put in the White House?

Aping Film Styles for Fun and Promotional Profit

Whiting Winner Manuel Munoz on the Writing Vote

David Lynch To Take Book Online

Bloggers: Next Best Hope for Book Reviews?

A Better Understanding of Doubleday's Mini-Implosion

The Scariest Books

Exclusive Interview: Author Barry Lopez on the Election

Then Again, It Could Be Dan Brown's Fault... Or Could It?

Should Layoffs Be Publicized?

2008 Whiting Writers' Awards

If They'd Waited a Week, They Could've Called It November Rain

Campaign Ads, Book Trailers, and Evolution

From a Month-Long Writing Marathon, A New Tale of the Undead

Literary Mixology

OK, But Good Luck Finding Yourself a Ringo

A Bit of "Black Tuesday" Humor: No Pressure, Dan!

Author Sues Her Sister

Exclusive Video: Cintra Wilson Crowns Caligula

Returned Inventory Fees Shutter Impetus Press

Barbara Walters, Sen. Clinton Headline Feminist Press Gala

Reed Elsevier's Ex-CEO: RBI Price Must Drop

Drinking and Reading and Drinking

Black Tuesday

Google Poised To Pay Authors and Publishers $45 Million

When Is the Best Time To Twitter About Books?

Why We Write: Dave Eggers on Making a Difference

Book Fairs: Financial Pressure, But Also an Outlet for It

Reed Elsevier Offering More Money to Take Magazines Off Its Hands?

Women and Men and the "Big Idea" Genre, Take Two

Depression Books

Coolman to Hyperion, Greko to Macmillan

Reader Supported Writing

More on the Hard-to-Find Jewel of Medina

AvantGuild: Liza Dawson Wants Your Gorgeous Historical Thriller

Internet Book Database

Remembering Tony Hillerman

A Quartet of Harvard-Trained Editors with Career Advice

Indie Booksellers Urged to Prepare for Holiday Shopping

Escape from New York: Freelance Dispatch

How To Survive Writing Layoffs

Readers Imagine a Digital Book Review

Peekaboo! See The Jewel of Medina?

Hachette Binds Sci-Fi, Graphic Novel Lines Together

A Night of Costumes and Secret Identities in SoHo

Dan Harvey, 1945-2008

FBLA: Madeleine Albright's Memo to the President

Fire Drill? No Problem: Laurel's Interview Carries On

Exclusive Interview with Brian Francis Slattery

Copy Editors Under Fire

Recession Writing Tips, Part One

David Foster Wallace's Elements of Style

What's New With: Jeff & Ann VanderMeer?

Are Men Hogging the "Big Idea Book" Territory?

Is Web 2.0 Our Economy's Biggest Victim?

Does the Kindle Spur Sales of Old-Timey Print Books?

Pitching the Nonfiction Book

Mobile Phone Bookstore

The Novel Hannah Tinti "Didn't Want to Write" Is Now a Hit

Wired: Stop Your Blogging, Please, It's Pathetic

Jordanian Poet Jailed for Religious Allusions

Could a New Yorker Win Canada's Top Literary Prize?

Amazon Buys Electronic Game Developer

Thomas M. Disch Remembered

In Defense of Free Books

The Future of Digital Book Review Sites

Beatnik Noir

AvantGuild: Agents for Good News, Written Well

Blogging the Blogged Newspaper Blog Survey

You've Got to Pay Attention to Get Attention

You'd Better Run to This City of Refuge

What's New With: Barry Yourgrau & Gail Konop Baker?

Booking the Today Show

After 20 Years, Nick Cave's Second Novel is Coming

Happy Judge A Book By Its Cover Day!

Storytelling Night

Video Exclusive: Literary Mayhem

Story Prize Announces Its Judges for 2008

Tina Brown Creates Mild Evelyn Waugh Revival

Overheard in Frankfurt

Your Signed Copy's Almost Ready, Unca Donald!

Why Didn't Borders Want Your Book?

Finding David Foster Wallace

A Very Healthy Lunch

Exclusive Video: Jay McInerney and the Recession

A Blaze of Glory, or a Long, Slow Climb Up the Mountain?

Viking Raids the Financial Bookshelf

Scene @ Stolen Moments Launch Party

Andrew Sullivan Finds "Exhilirating Liberation" Blogging

Tomorrow's Top Agents Reject Today's Doomsayers

We Could Make a Lot of Stuff Before the Sun Goes Down

Now That's What We Call a Reading!

Real Advice for Joe the Plumber

Bright Lights, Little Story

Press Release 2.0

Writers Take Videogame Baby Steps

Starbucks Enters the Publishing Game

In This High-Stakes Game, The (Publishing) House Doesn't Always Win

Happy Reader Interactive Fun Time!

Booksellers' Heads Still Above Water... We Think

The Book Reviews That Matter Most?

Do We Need Our Literary Landmark Estates?

2008 National Book Award Nominees: Your Thoughts?

Amy Sedaris: Television to Book to Television

2008 National Book Award Nominees: Young Adult

2008 National Book Award Nominees: Poetry

2008 National Book Award Nominees: Nonfiction

2008 National Book Award Nominees: Fiction

It Is Not Dying, It Is Not Dying

Big Houses Hibernate; Little Houses Flourish?

AvantGuild: Now This Veteran Editor's Making Pitches

Who Will Bail Us Out of the Information Crisis?

Aravind Adiga Takes the Man Booker Prize

El-Erian Wins FT/Goldman Biz Book Prize

Five Chapters, Two Years, One Publishing Solution

Novelist Christopher Buckley Resigns After Blog Post

Downey Holmes and Dueling Sherlocks!

A Steampunk Evening in San Francisco

Not Your Father's Literary Reading

Scene @ Nashville's Southern Festival of Books

Will the Indie/Amazon Cold War Heat Up?

Presidential Politics: New Battleground for Old Blog Rivalry

Somebody Want to Give St. Martin's a Hug?

AvantGuild: What Makes a Good Book Website?

For Whom the Memoir Tolls

Red Stock Market Death!

Never Date a Book Lover

Exclusive Interview: Publishing on Mobile Phones

A Cancer Survivor's Memoir Leads to a Fashion Statement

HarperStudio Reclaims the "Future of Books" Dialogue

A $530 Laptop Case? That's Not Punk, It's Cyberpunk

Should We Mourn the Dying Book Review?

Random, Harper Plant Stakes in Abu Dhabi

No Jewel of Medina for UK Readers This Week

Where Is the Most Literary Bar?

Textbook Pirates Retreat

The Nobel Prize Debate: Readers Respond

Scene @ Capotorto & Hazen Book Parties

Publishers Look to Obama to Save Their Jobs

Nora Roberts Returns to Romance in '09

DC's Gunslinger Man One Step Closer to Hollywood

The Art of the Nonfiction Book Proposal

Exclusive Interview: Will Americans Read Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio?

Bad Year for MFA Graduates

Disgruntled 'Wingers Gang Up on Book Publicist

So, Anybody Going to Frankfurt?

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio Wins Nobel

Reagan Arthur Joins the Marquee Editors Club

What Are the Good Book's Best Parts?

The Crowd Will Create Its Own Meritocracy

Albert Goldbarth, Amy Hempel Win Literary Prizes

Recycling Rejections

The Flame Is Gone

Exclusive Video: Joshua Henkin, New PEN Member

Small Recovery for Publishers in August

Take That, Horace Engdahl, And That!

Tom Kostigen Calls Pollution As He Sees It

PW Loses Some People, Gains Aggregate Web Content

Finding the Drama in Self-Help and Psychology

Major Publishers Take Up Belt-Tightening Measures?

Judging Interactive Fiction

The Most Literary Jazz Band

What's Going On At PW?

Literary Recession Survival Kit

Eat, Pray, Read

The Thurber Jury Loves You, Larry Doyle!

Rounding Up the Beast

How To Generate 3,000 Angry "Contributors"

Blog? Blog? Blog?

AvantGuild: Alexandra Machinist Is Ready for Your Queries

Video: Writing and Eating in a Recession

Judge for Yourself: Jewel of Medina in U.S. Bookstores

The Face of The Jewel of Medina

Smashing Our Critical Idols for Fun & (Mental) Profit

Discovering Japan: Dan Pink Talks Manga in NYC

It's a Book Party! It's a Family Reunion!

Bookshelf Bailout: Read Free Books

The Cellphones Are Winning!?!

Exit Interview with Felicia Sullivan

Is Thomas Pynchon Investigating Raymond Chandler?

Are Euro Publishers Really All That?

AAP Renames, Relaunches Scholar/Pro Excellence Prize

FBNY: Harper Editor Moonlights as Soccer Coach

Japan's Literary Master Takes On a Pop Classic

Scenes from the Book Festival Circuit

There Once Was a Soccer Mom from Alaska...

"Eyes that pleaded silently for death"

Now America's Literati Know What Scorn Feels Like

Disgruntled Reader Joins in Literary America-Bashing

Robert De Niro Gets Booked

At Least 10 People Are Making Money On Books

Soccer Dad Memoirist Versus Hockey Mom Candidate

If The Kids Are United, YA Lit Can Never Be Divided

Queer Eye for the Straight Talk Express

Chicago Reader Editor Discusses Book Coverage

Books of the Vice Presidential Debate

The Purloined Rejection Letters

Will Kindle Pirates Float a Book Napster?

Donna Tartt Leaves Knopf: Can Publishing Be Saved?

I Can Has L. Ron Hubbard?

We'll Make Our Own Luck, You Dumb Swede!

Teach Them Well and Let Them Lead the Way

Happy National Reading Group Month!

Esther Margolis Honored for Indie Publishing Legacy

What's Your Favorite Kid Lit of 2008?

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