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Archives: September 2009

Can Poetry Reach the Common American Reader?

Apple Tablet Rumors Multiply

Job Detective: Macmillan Match

Zombie-ification of Literature Shambles Onward

Simon & Schuster Combines Simon Spotlight Entertainment and Pocket Books

More eBook Summit Guests Revealed

Will Amazon Kindle Finally Arrive in the U.K.?

Tarcher's $1000 Gift to NYC Book Buyers

Rene Alegria -- The Godfather

Interview with Ruth Cavin of St. Martin's Press

Disney's Digital Book Push

Talking About Things Women Don't Talk About

GalleyCat Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

Sarah Palin Finishes Her Memoir in Four Months

Sony and Smashwords Form Distribution Partnership

2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Winners Honored

Mapping Banned Books in the U.S.

The Daily Beast to Publish Rapid-Fire eBooks

Charles Dickens Fights for Copyright in the Wild West

Southern Bookselling's Jewell, Back in Place

Scene @ AgencySpy's Adland Party

Celebrating William Safire's Precision

Kate Duffy Has Died

Annette Gordon-Reed Wins $25,000 History Prize

Mary C. Hickey to Edit Book Coverage at Ladies' Home Journal

French Publisher Sues Google Books for $22 Million

Barnes & Noble: We Don't Extort Referral Links

William Safire Has Died

The Book Deal That Began Halfway Around the World

Tell Me Something True by Leila Cobo

Undiscovered Talent: A Writer to Watch

Gothenburg Book Fair Continues

Gothenburg Book Fair Dispatch

Weekend Werewolves and the D.C. Book Fest

Why You Should Keep Writing Despite Rejection

Federal Judge Postpones Google Books Hearing

Job Detective: Go Guinness

How Can You Change Publishing Today?

Give Us Links Or We Won't Sell Your Books: Really?

Steve Rubin Resigns at Random House

How Did Mackenzie Phillips Keep Her Memoir Secret?

Book Video Gets 4.5 Million Views

The Other D.B. Who Explains Dan Brown's Appeal

The Editors' Future: "More Work for Fewer People"?

Microsoft Joins eBook Forces with O'Reilly Media

Bruce Barcott Wins Literary Activism Prize

Win Coffee Date with Novelist Junot Díaz

Who Are the Celebs in Your Neighborhood?

Book Deal for SC Governor Mark Sanford's Wife

Aptara and ScrollMotion Partner for iPhone eBook Conversion Project

Casting a Spell on Readers' Imaginations: Dan Brown's Predecessor

Job Detective: Penguin Position

iRex Unveils $399 eBook Reader

Diablo Cody to Adapt and Produce "Sweet Valley High"

Mackenzie Phillips Incest Allegations Rattle Internet Readers

McSweeney's Launches iPhone App

Betting Site Ranks Amos Oz as 2009 Nobel Prize Favorite

A GalleyCat Veteran Brings Steampunk to Brooklyn

James Ellroy Book Club

Plaintiffs Move to Delay Google Books Settlement Hearing

Richard Bausch and Benjamin Skinner Win Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Coping with Publishing Layoffs

Director Scott Hicks on Adapting "The Boys Are Back"

MacArthur Foundation to Announce $500,000 "Genius Grant" Winners

Google Books Joins mediabistro.com's eBook Summit

Granta Heads to Chicago

MinnPost.com Launches "Book Club Club"

A Second Pass at Dan Brown's Great Work

Free Library of Philadelphia Will Stay Open

Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist Announced

John Edwards Staffer's Book Proposal Leaked

Department of Justice Urges Federal Judge to Reject Google Books Settlement

Ralph Nader and His 700-Page Novel

Is The Lost Symbol Dan Brown's Great Work?

A Cool New Future for Literary Journalism?

10Q: A Mass Online Participatory Soul-Searching Project

Job Detective: Hachette Hires

Producer to Adapt True Story of Literary Labrador

Will Lynne McTaggart Get the Dan Brown Bump?

Celebrating the Hudson River in Verse

The Second Life Writers' Club

Career Renegades, Escaping from Cubicle Nation

Howard Books Debuts on Nashville Stage

Obama Book Raises $11K in One Day

Writers Learn How to Listen

Amazon Forces Changes at LibraryThing

Admit Your Writing Mistake

Denise Oswald on Twitter Novel Deal

Dan Brown Breaks Digital Book Records

You've Never Seen an Airborne Toxic Event Like This Before

S&S Cries Avast to Digital Piracy

FT/Goldman Sachs Unveils Biz Book Shortlist

Uwem Akpan, Oprah's New Favorite Writer

Free Library of Philadelphia Could Close

NBF Will Celebrate Gore Vidal and Dave Eggers

Former Collins President Switches to Blogging

Nathan Bransford Gets Book Blogger Appreciation

And We Get Cake? This Really IS Random's Best Day Ever!

Behind the Scenes at Anthony E. Zuiker's Digi-Novel

Publishing and New War Veterans

Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlist Announced

NY Observer's Books Reporter Leon Neyfakh Changes Beats

GalleyCat Helps Trivialize Literature

Alix Strauss: Living with the Dead

Dan Brown Breaks Sales Records at Barnes & Noble

Arianna Huffington to Start Book Club

Dan Brown Blair Witch Project

Soft Skull Buys Novel Off Twitter

Writers Remember Patrick Swayze

Who Is Robert Bonomo And Why Is He Trying to Game Oprah?

AvantGuild: Writing the Book on Work-Life Balance

CIA's Secret Role in George Orwell and Graham Greene Adaptations

Author Jon Krakauer on His Long-Delayed Book

It's a Red Letter Day for Laura Caldwell

Dan Brown and the Not So Lost Symbol

Time's Managing Editor on E-Readers

Publishing Job Detective: Macmillan Marketing

Amazon Awards PEN American Center $25K

Michael Cunningham Sentence Animated

NY Times Breaks Dan Brown Embargo

Poet Jim Carroll Has Died

Laura Albert Settles Film Company's "Fraud" Suit

The Golden Handcuffs of Bestsellerdom

Deja Vu by Suzetta Perkins

Ravenous Dips Toes in Print, Cable TV

Love Trumps Game by D.Y. Phillips

Book Stock Watch: U.S. Copyright Office vs. Google Books

Candace Bushnell's Recession

Protagonize to Experiment with Subscription Model

Melissa Broder's Poetry Finds Home at Ampersand

Jessica Seinfeld's Cookbook Survives Lawsuit

Booking The Daily Beast

Changes Afoot at Amazon's Search Inside the Book?

GalleyCat Readers Name Congressman Joe Wilson's Memoir

Pride and Prejudice and Promotions

Homer Finally Joins Facebook

"Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" Trailer Released

Amazon vs. Google in D.C. Digital Library Debate

Publishing Job Detective: Facts on File

Google Counts More Than 168 Million Books in the World

Tor.com Publishes Its First Book

Moonstone by Marilee Brothers

Naming Congressman Joe Wilson's Memoir on Twitter

Digital Publisher Quartet Press Disbands

Read Like a NY Times Columnist

Apple Keynote Lacks Publishing News

Publicist Explains Book Embargoes

Apple Keynote Today; iPod Tablet Cometh?

Sirius XM Social Networking Fixes

Hachette Hires Private Detective in Ted Kennedy Leak

Former Collins Executive Editor Gillian Blake Joins Henry Holt

Writing in the Future

The Land of Lost Kindles

Asus Plans $164 E-Reader

Nick Cave's Experimental Audiobook

Google Adwords as Novel Writing Tool

President Barack Obama Promotes Writers in Back to School Speech

Book Blogger Appreciation Voting Has Begun

Scene @ Decatur Book Festival

Archive Binge Puts New Fans in at the Start

Whither the Bookblog?

No One is Illegal by Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis

Book Stock Watch: Reader Revise

Federal Writers Project Doc Opens

NY Times Investigates Subway Readers

Writing a book in 7 minutes a day?

Ernest Hemingway's "Suicidal" U-Boat War

How To Promote a Book on Teacher's Salary

Court of Appeals Pans J.D. Salinger Follow-Up

Rock Star Coloring Book

2009 PEN Beyond Margins Award Winners Announced

Authors Guild Attacks Amazon

How Writers Survived the Great Depression

Does Google Books Work?

NY Times Breaks Embargo on Ted Kennedy Memoir

The First Twitter Lit Adaptation

Kiss the Sky by Farai Chideya

Publisher Reacts Strongly to Author's Royalty Debate

Publishing Job Board: Oxford Open

Author vs. Publisher Debate Heats Up

Journalists Write North Korean Prison Story

Customize Your Own Douglas Coupland Cover

Memoirist Sheryl Weinstein's Husband on "Madoff's Other Secret"

Publishing Industry Gets a Laugh Track

Three Editorial Cuts at Simon & Schuster

Alice Munro Withdraws from Running for $50,000 Prize

Marvel Entertainment's Publishing Footprint

Edgar Allan Parody

Novelist Colson Whitehead Needs Three Websites to Finish One Story

Where in the World Is Sarah Palin?

Infobase Publishing Acquires the World Almanac Imprint

Dan Brown's Televised Treasure Hunt

The Year's Most Pirated Digital Books

Look What Bella and Edward Hath Wrought

City of Fire by Laurence Yep

Have a Devil of a Time at Shani Petroff's Book Party

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