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Archives: November 2008

Black Friday Book Buying Guide

Inside David Browne's Rock & Roll Book Deal

How To Sell Books on Amazon Kindle

The Dying Publishing Lunch Hour

First Glimpse of the New Kindle E-Reader

How To Write For Videogames

What's New With... SharedBook?

John Updike and Rachel Johnson Win Bad Sex Awards

Food Writers and Editor Launch New Site

Paperback Fever: Excerpt from Thomas Pynchon's Upcoming Private Detective Novel

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Lockdown: Outside Reactions

Thomas Pynchon's Private Detective Hits Streets in August 2009

Blogs.com Taps GalleyCat for Literature's Best

AvantGuild: An Agent Opens Up the Hispanic Book Market

Author Joan Wickersham on Writing about Suicide

Kim From LA: Publicist With A Poetic Sensibility

AgencySpy: How to Get a Book Deal in Advertising

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt "Temporarily" Stops Buying New Books

The Literary Legacy of Hannity & Colmes

Pan Macmillan Partners with Popular iPhone Reader

John Updike, Russell Banks, and Paulo Coelho Score Bad Sex in Fiction Nominations

Could Typepad's Journalist Bailout Program Save Book Reviews?

Random House's Digital Push

NoHo Literary Agents Seek Like-Minded Office Mates

Stuff White People Might Like, If They Knew It Existed

UnBeige: Rushdie Feted @ The Moth Ball

One Last National Book Awards Roundup

Is Journalism a Dead End Career?

Zombies Versus Unicorns at the Bookstore

A Sexy Reading Turns Three-Years-Old

Publishers Bet Twilight Will Sell Books

What's New With... Reagan Arthur?

Which Media Holiday Parties Can't Be Stopped?

Exclusive Video Interview with NBA Winner Judy Blundell

The Week in Party Hopping: Sushi, Tacos, & Gin

Everybody's Got Their Own Word of 2008

Random House Changes Pension Policy

Exclusive Interview with NBA Winner Annette Gordon-Reed

Ten Days To Go!

Mark Doty and Walt Whitman

Add Conan O'Brien to the List of Celebrity Readers

Here Are Your 2008 National Book Awards

Judy Blundell, A Dark Horse Even to Herself, Comes Through

National Book Awards on Wall Street

Watching Watchmen Sell Books

Club Promoter Sues Simon & Schuster Over "Douchebag" Book

Joseph Heller's Daughter Bashes Literary Efforts of Plumber and Palin

Romance Titles Coming To the iPhone

UnBeige: What's New With... Yes We Can?

What's New With... James Cañón?

What's New With... Tobias Buckell?

Don Weise Takes the Helm at Alyson

FiveThirtyEight Guy Sells Two Books With Two Pages?

Biz Author Confesses His Latest Was a Real Quickie Book (And We DO Mean Latest)

Franklin D. Roosevelt Fever

Exclusive Video Interview with Novelists Joshua Ferris and Matthew Eck

Authors Guild Nears Multi-Million Dollar Google Deal

Here's What We Know About Palin's "$7M Book Deal"

How Sujatha Hampton Landed Her First Book Deal

Can You Predict the National Book Awards?

Book View Café Puts Its Wares on Display

Here Comes the Sun's Former Book Critic

Joan Didion Writing Screenplay for Film about Katharine Graham

Sharon Waxman: From Ancient Art to Cutting-Edge Media

Trident Media Group C.E.O. Responds To Advance Backlash

$7 Million for Sarah Palin? Radar Thinks So

Scene @ Lynne Greenberg's The Body Broken Party

A Top Publicist Changes Course, Pursuing Editorial Dream

Jenny Rappaport Sets Up Her Own Agency

Advice for a Young Poet

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Depression Versus Barack Obama's Recession

Reinforcements for Operation: Buy More Books

Hyper-Local Bookstore and Author Coordination

Million Dollar Advance Backlash

Rallying Against the Holiday Retail Blues

Bookstores Feel The September Pain, Too

Laura Bush and George W. Bush Ponder Memoirs

UnBeige: Joe the Plumber Needs Quick Book Money

Dogs of Brooklyn

Esther Margolis Looks Back at Publishing's Feminist Transformation

Montreal Resident Wins Man Asian Literary Prize

Inside Simon & Schuster's New Digital Studio

Sarah Silverman, Jerry Seinfeld, and Trident Media Group Strike Book Gold

FBNY @ Jon Meacham's American Lion Party

Camille Paglia Has a Book Idea for Sarah Palin

Jarvis and Rosenbaum Feud Over Books

Basement Poets Versus Encroaching Condominiums

International Lit Prizes for Boyden & Lee

Cell Phone Book Company Counts a Half Million Users

Canadian Lit Prize Snubs Graphic Novel's Graphic Artist

Artie Lange Is Too Fat To Fish

Resolved: Shadow Country New Enough to Be 2008's Best Novel (Maybe)

HBO Orders Pilot for George R.R. Martin's Fantasy Novel Series

What's New With... Obama Picture Books?

Novelist Brian Francis Slattery Tops Amazon List

Seth Godin's Tribe-Building Secrets, Online Free

FBLA: Making Standardized Test Prep Funny

Guest Essay: The Hispanic Heroes of Book Publishing

Inside Norman Mailer's Labyrinthine Life

UnBeige: Strand Books Welcomes Shutterbug Invasion

What's New With... Dana Jennings?

Come See The Sort of Thing We Do on Our Own Time!

Stories for Veterans Day

The Ultimate Book Club

Patrick Arrasmith: A Solid Dose of Spooky for Young Readers

Bestseller University

Write or Die

Gone with the Wind Will Save Us

Pyr Books Ready to Dive Into Mass Market

Only Two Percent of Bloggers Can Make a Living

Publishers Courting Sarah Palin

Exclusive Interview: Book-Reviewing Cartoonist Ward Sutton

Digital Book Bonanza

Nick Antosca's Orphaned Novel Finds a New House

When a Simple T-Shirt Just Won't Do

Four Thousand Novels in a Week

President Bush's Literary Legacy

Exclusive Interview: How Erin McKean Sold Her Blog-Based Book

Book Blogger Backlash

Did Barack Obama Win by Memoir?

Major Distributor Raises Concerns Over Borders

Rahm Emanuel: Chief of Staff and Author

John Leonard Has Died

Book Clubs on Saturn

Could the Recession Stifle Digital Books?

Meeting the Collins Authors Leaves Us Shaken, Not Stirred

The Poetry of Barack Obama

Michael Crichton, 1942-2008

Michael Crichton Has Died

The Obamas Could Try the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm

Texas Indie Publisher Cited for Excellent Design

Doonesbury Dominates Comic Strip Books

Publishers Report Further Drop in September Sales

Pro-Obama Books Finding Their Market Space

One Last Sarah Palin Impression Until 2012

George W. Bush Book Fever

Mary Matalin Doesn't Care As Long As The Numbers Add Up

Exclusive Endorsement Interview: Literary Votes for Barack Obama

The First Election Day Winner

Socialite Bibliography

Literati Get Their Spell On for Small Presses

Scene @ Texas Book Festival

B&N Prepares For the Bleak Midwinter

Don't Forget To Vote (Unless You Already Did, In Which Case, Good Job!)

AvantGuild: Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Want to Hear Your Voice

Studs Terkel and Benjamin Percy on Writing About War

Exclusive Interview with Pulitzer Finalist Dael Orlandersmith

Celebrate the Legacy of Studs Terkel

Investigating John McCain and Barack Obama

Night Shade Joins DRM-Free Sci-Fi E-Bookstore

Scene @ Montana Festival of the Book

The McCourt Clan Memoirs Are Now Triangulated

How to Get a Book Deal from Social Networking

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