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Archives: August 2009

Tweets, They Are A-Changin'

The Eye in the Pyramid Has Us Seeing Double

Author Jenna Bush Joins Today Show

Lindsay Patterson, 1934-2009

David Cross Gets Literary Support from Keith Olbermann

Random House Revenue Drops for First Half of 2009

Storm Large IS Gretchen Lowell

Publishing Job Board: HarperCollins Hiring

Disney to Acquire Marvel Entertainment in $4 Billion Deal

Smashwords Inks Distribution Deal with Barnes & Noble

An Imaginative Leap in Book Trailer Production

Head Bangers by Zane

Book Stock Watch: Sony Support

Book Trailer for an Imaginary Author

"The Shock Doctrine" Adaptation Divided

Book Banning Is Every American's Problem

Contemporary Fiction: The Next Big Thing in Video Games?

Ted Kennedy's Memoir Embargoed

Batman Video Game Drives Book Sales

Publishing Job Board: Quick Quartet

Joyce Carol Oates' Literary Look at Ted Kennedy

Where I Must Go by Angela Jackson

Set the Graphic Novel Free

The New Yorker Hires 26-Year-Old Amelia Lester as Managing Editor

Remembering Dominick Dunne on the Menu

Rock Journalists' Hardcore Memories

One Million ePub Titles in Google Books

Barack Obama's Amazon Ranking Magic

Nailing Down the Hammer Cover Art

Gretchen Lowell Has Your Number

Slant by Laura E. Williams

Author and Journalist Dominick Dunne Has Died

Publishing Job Board: Simon & Schuster Sales

Harvey Pekar Tweets Web Comic

Former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman Is Looking for Romance

Politico Writer on Ted Kennedy's Legacy

GalleyCat Exclusive Interview with Royal Pains Star, Reshma Shetty

Book Review Sparks Reporting Feud

Frustrated Novelist Julia Child Finally Tops Bestseller List

Senator Edward M. Kennedy Has Died

Hey, Where'd the Doggies of Publishing Go?

We're Even Crowdsourcing Bookstore Appearances Now

What's Urban Fantasy? What's Paranormal Romance?

Twelve Rounds to Glory by Charles R. Smith Jr.

Forget Sony's Daily Edition, What about the Partnerships?

Publishing Job Board: Rodale Rocks

Book Covers Uncovered

Urban Fantasy: Science Fiction's Future?

Mary Gaitskill's Real Life GalleyCat

Sony Unveils Daily Edition Reader

Sam Mendes and Oprah Winfrey Land "Netherland" Scriptwriter

AvantGuild: This Agent's Cooking Up Plenty of Deals

Who Is Oprah's New Favorite Author?

Exploring Book-Writing Programs

21st Century Writing Survival Tips

Beach Reading with President Barack Obama

Hugo Chavez Hobbles Venezuelan Publishing

Jane Friedman Raises $3 Million for Publishing Start-Up

15 Short Stories in 15 Days

Cover Trends: The Book as Art Object

The Many Faces of David Eagleman's Sum

Gather Together in My Name by Tracy Price-Thompson

Book Stock Watch: Amazon's Allies

Penguin Identified as Victim of Bug Infestation

Publishing for iPhone Attention Spans

Day Job Survival Tips

Gawker's Hunter Walker Investigates J-School

Gary Vaynerchuk's Literary Wine Tasting

How Will Students Read?

Publishing Job Board: The Old College Try

As If Publishing Didn't Have Enough Problems

Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

16 Translators Share $275,000 in NEA Grants

Day-Job Coping Strategies

Barnes & Noble Sued Over $596 Million Deal

Will They Put TV in Books?

How To Break into Comic Book Writing

Elizabeth Gilbert Gets "Committed"

Flat World Knowledge to Reach 40,000 Students This Fall

TV Journalist Don Hewitt Has Died

Frank Bruni's Audiobook Revelation

Glenn Beck: Advertisers Flee, Audience Flocks

Pick Publishing Panels for the SXSW Festival

Publishing Job Board: Phoenix Publicity

Airport Authorship

Laughing Our Way Through the E-Book Transition

Lesson Learned by Earl Sewell

Facebook Your Writing Process

Publisher, Paul & Mary

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Win Literary Peace Prize

Author and Journalist Robert Novak Has Died

The Dark Side of Crossword Puzzles

Historical Novel Questions "Incredibly Misogynistic Record"

Quartet Press Hires Angela James

How Will Your Book Trailer Upend Readers' Expectations?

Some Authors Can't Wait for Dan Brown's New Book to Come Out

How The Talisman Wound Up in the Penny Arcade

Literary Sites Test Advertising

Read Like Mad Men

Marketing Staff Changes at HarperStudio

Literary Politicians Lead Health Care Debate

A Bookstore Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Parent Refinances Debt

New Yorker Releases Dave Eggers Excerpt

"The Time Traveler's Wife" Adaptation Rocks Box Office

UnBeige: Can Your Favorite Designer Cook?

A Book Marketing Campaign Flush With Success?

Deal With It by Monica McKayhan

Dancing with the Stars Celebrity, Karina Smirnoff's New Books

New Publishing Job Openings

Book Stock Watch: Sony's Stand

Knopf Editors Blog in the Kitchen

Novelist Wendy Walker on Recession Lit

What Women Want to Read

How Believable Is Daniel Levin's Archaeological Thriller?

Vanity Fair Imagines Werner Herzog's Diary

Has Publishing Abandoned Male Readers?

Putnam's 25th Anniversary Surprise for Neil Nyren

The Sword Is Mightier Than the Glowy Magic

Tim Ferriss Wants to Crowdsource His Next Book Cover; Some People Have a Problem With That

Dancing with the Stars Celebrity, Karina Smirnoff

Digital Book Expert Clarifies Digtal Formats

Anna Nicole Smith Book Lawsuit Proceeds

Apple Keynote: The Tablet Cometh?

Dick Cheney Memoir to Reveal "Heated Arguments" with George W. Bush

Plastic Logic Partners with Olive Software

President Bill Clinton Reads a Book Blog

Sony Reader Switches to ePub Format

We're Going to Need a Bigger Ballot

Chasing Romeo by A.J. Byrd

Journalist Released from N. Korean Prison Shops Book with Sister

Nickname Dan Brown's Release Date

Why Do You Want to Start a Blog?

New Yorker Editor Possibly "Exempt" from Company Restructuring

Smartphone Industry Sees 300% Increase in E-Book App Users

David Mamet Plans Anne Frank Adaptation

Dan Brown and Publishing's "DBDay"

Joseph Buttafuoco Sues Ex-Wife Over Her Book

Collected Works of Arlen Specter

Thomas Pynchon Confirmed as Book Trailer Narrator

Mystery Novelist Sandra Brown on Writing Conferences

Publishing Layoff Advice

CourseSmart Launches iPhone Textbook App

Three New Hires at FinePrint Literary Management

Barnes & Noble, Inc. to Acquire Barnes & Noble College Booksellers

A Little Bit of Brooklyn Comes to Metropolis

Turning Japanese by Cathy Yardley

Julia Roberts at Brooklyn Bookstore

Twilight Sweeps Teen Choice Awards

Phoenix Books President Michael Viner Has Died

Berkley Brings House Favorite Out of Limbo

Author Richard Farrell on How to Write a Script

Simon & Schuster Releases Free "Uglies" E-Book

AvantGuild: Julie Powell on Avoiding the Blogging Trap

William Morris Endeavor Urges Clients to Avoid Google Book Settlement

Neil Gaiman Wins Best Novel Hugo Award

Want to Feel Better About Yourself? Read a Book!

A Kid's Guide to Latino History by Valerie Petrillo

Soucouyant by David Chariandy

Book Stock Watch: Quarterly Qualms

G.I. Joe Survival Guide

Screenwriter Blake Snyder Has Died

Marvel Releases Free Prisoner Comic Preview

Can Sobriety Change a Writing Career?

Writers Remember Director John Hughes

Atmospheric Horror Tale Spawns Online Art Game

Lev Grossman: Fantasy Goes Mainstream

Party with mediabistro.com & Kristin Harmel!

Senate Confirms Perry Mason Fan

First Glimpse of Alice Sebold Film

Quartet Press' Don Linn on Digital Pricing

Twitter Outage Rocks Literary Internets

Screenwriter Budd Schulberg Has Died

Richard Russo Review Draws Fire

HarperCollins Posts 20.6% Revenue Drop

Get Known Before the Book Deal by Christina Katz

Sony Unveils $199 Digital Reader

Why Should the Robots Let You Live?

The Man Who Turned into a Tree

Blackberry Users Anonymous: Addicted to Blackberries

Thomas Pynchon, Your Humble Narrator?

Publishing Deadlines Tighten

Getty Publications Seeks EIC

Journalist Richard Wolffe Plans New Obama Book

Adriana Dominguez of Full Circle Literary

Library Cat Author Lands Seven-Figure Deal

Reverend's Apprentice by David N. Odhiambo

Thomas Pynchon Speaks?

Adriana Dominguez Joins Full Circle Literary

Reviewing the White American Male

Del Rey Books Buys Kim Harrison Graphic Novels

Hugo Chavez Deploys "Book Squadrons"

CEOs Ponder the Future of Publishing

Library Groups Seek DOJ Antitrust Support in Google Settlement

The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim

Thomas Pynchon TV

Blog Like Julie & Julia

Writing about Woodstock

First Glimpse of Vladimir Nabokov's Final Manuscript

Collecting Literary Tattoos

Thomas Pynchon Party Program

Hey Editors! Less Max Perkins, More Billy Mays

Love Stinks. Talking About How? Pretty Awesome.

Three Witches by Paula Jolin

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