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mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Sep 2, 2008
First, some background: Two years ago, National Book Critics Circle then-president John Freeman proposed bloggers affiliated with bookstores couldn't be trusted, because they were just trying to persuade you to buy a …
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Emily Gould Is Offering You the Red Pillmediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Aug 21, 2008 Former GalleyCat contributing editor Emily Gould has done more this summer than completing the essay collection she sold to Free Press . She's also got a byline in the latest issue of Technology Review, discussing … |
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Wait, Blurbs Don't Flow Like Honey from the Rock? Really?mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Aug 18, 2008 It was back in 2006 that I first mentioned the two types of Rachel Donadio stories you could find in the New York Times Book Review. On a good day, you'd get sharply reported articles like the backstory on J. Robert … |
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Aug 4, 2008
Over a year ago, NY Times bookblogger Dwight Garner addressed a reader's complaint about the lack of romance coverage in the NYT Book Review by asking, "Who is the Lionel Trilling of romance critics? Maybe we should …
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Jul 31, 2008
Thanks to those of you who let me know about the brief mention of GalleyCat in Lissa Warren's HuffPo essay about how book blogs fail to replicate newspaper book review sections. I'm always somewhat tickled to be …
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Jul 30, 2008
Over at the Huffington Post, Jennifer Nix talks about how four straight years of progressive activism against the neo-con machine and no fiction reading left "my soul... running on empty," until Aleksandar Hemon 's The …
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Do Readers Really Miss the Vanishing Book Reviews?mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Jul 29, 2008 If you haven't read Kassia Krozser's essay about why the Los Angeles Times Book Review was shuttered, do yourself a favor and read it now: "While I want to believe Steve Wasserman’s ... number of 300,000 avid weekly … |
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Jul 25, 2008
While the Tribune Company's decisions to abandon a standalone book review at the Los Angeles Times, folding the book coverage into its Calendar (read: arts) section, and to dismiss the book review editor at the …
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Jul 21, 2008
Shortly after I put up Friday's suggestion that book coverage isn't dying but evolving, I got an email from Colleen Mondor calling my attention to two recent posts that bring a needed perspective to the shifts in MSM …
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Book Coverage Dying? The Funny Pages Will Save Us!mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Jul 17, 2008 First Judge Parker kicks off a storyline about negotiating a book advance, and now the comic strip is strengthening its ties to the publishing community by explicitly plugging books—namely The Little Red Book: Lessons … |