Sitemap - 2005 - Slushpile

Happy Holidays

Reading Crisis Con Game, and Oprah

Book Standard Interviews Jim Harrison

Another Year, Another Round of Da Vinci Contenders

The Importance of Cover Art

NY Times Book Review Selection Process

Blogs and Authors

Capital Punishment for Literary Critics

Interview: Claire Howorth, Publicist

Happy Endings and MacAdam/Cage

SoT Underrated Writers List

What, Exactly, Qualifies Haunted As New Fiction?

Postal Rate Increase Affects Aspiring Authors

Small Press Gift Giving Guide

Piazza Discusses New Orleans

More on Writing Workshops

"Agent" Pleads Guilty

But Will He Back Out at the Last Moment?

NYT 10 Best Books of 2005

Chopra Sells His Own Version of the Kama Sutra

National Novel Writing Month Recap and Results

Ellman Joins the Laura Dail Literary Agency

McDonald Promoted to Riverhead Executive Editor

Seattle Most Literate City in the Country

DuBois Sells Novel

Harper's Announces New Editor

Syntax of Things Reviews New Oxford American

11 Books that Explain the South

Link Wray Dies at 76

Sync Magazine Closes

Ahhh, the Free Rein of the Successful

Strauss Cover Story

Call for Geeky Inclined Writers

I'm Not Sure If You'll Have To Pay The Money Or If They'll Pay You The Money

Interview: Brendan DuBois

Any Crazy, Desperate, and Fiendishly Creative Aspiring Authors Out There?

Vollman Wins NBA!

Max Barry Tour Dates Announced

Baer Interviews Neil Gaiman

Place Your Bets! Place Your Bets!

Yet More Proof of Oprah's Bookselling Omnipotence

Book Deals In da Club and On the Trail

Interesting Interview with William T. Vollman

Pornified Review Misses One Key Criticism

Kudos to Akashic

Baer and Clevenger Reading a Rousing Success

Baer and Clevenger to Appear at Powell's

Grassroots Bookselling

Another Journalist Defending Sources

Novelist Loses Election

Blog Book Sold

RIP John Fowles

Interview: Neil Strauss, Author

Strauss Work Roundup

Formatting Foul-Ups

What is Being an Expert and What is Protecting Your Turf?

Lots of Book and Mag Job Changes

Amazon and Random House Announce Plans for Online Pay-Per-View

But Will the Drivers be Named Thorn and Steele?

Signed Ulysses for Sale

Interview: Joe R. Lansdale, Author

Great Reviews of Saunders and Gaitskill

Maybe Tattoo the Text on Your Skin

Debate Grows Over Chick Lit and Feminism

Barry Blows Down the Block

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

Kate Moss the Poet?

James Patterson from a Business Perspective

Screenwriter Sells Fiction Thriller

Dispute Over Reports of Potter Returns

Last Day to Sign Up for NaNoWriMo

What Exactly Qualifies this as News?

Vampire Novel Breaks New Ground

Interview: Chris Baty, Author

King to Publish Dark Tower Graphic Novel

Herding Feral Cats in Brooklyn

University Presses in Trouble

Great Profile of Cannongate Boss

McCormick & Williams Open for Business

MacAdam/Cage Website Launched

Miss Snark Agrees that to Answer is Divine

Lestat Joins the Church

Unusual Ideas Get Published

Banville's Thoughts on Winning the Booker

Drug Company Sponsors Novel and Hires Jayson Blair to Edit

Huge Deal for Zappa Kids Book

And I Thought I was a Faulkner Fanatic

Massive Deal for Buffett Book

Master Pickup Artist Signs Book Deal

Interview: David Galef, Author

Frankfurt Book Fair Opens Today

Imbecile Writers Really Do Exist

Time Picks Top 100 Novels

Mediabistro Editor Departs to Complete Novel

Berendt to Appear at Powell's

Porn Star Didn't Write Novel

Clapton Auction Closed

Interview: Will Christopher Baer, Author

Clevenger Quotes

Pinter Wins the Nobel

Tommy Lee Injured Onstage

Kiss Me, Judas Italian Promo Film

Collins McCormick Literary Agency Disbands

NBA Finalists Announced

Just Another Manic Wednesday...

Phineas Poe Omnibus Release

Writing Advice From Someone Who Expects Not to Write Again

Banville Wins Booker Prize

Dermaphoria Day

Best of the South to Appear at Joseph Beth

Tommy Vercetti the Cherub?

Review: The Game

Hopkins to Play Hemingway

300 Million Served and Growing

A Couple of Great Readings Today

New Website - TheSportingLife.net

Interview: Jeff Kleinman, Agent

Maybe Judith Miller is a Vachss Fan

If He Needs a Ghostwriter, or Some Help, Lemme Know

Dayne Sherman on Hurricane Katrina

New Case at Crimescene

Literary Knitting

Giving a Shout Out for Myself

Bell Rocks Baltimore Book Festival

BoD: Revenge

Interview: Ace Atkins, Author

Emerging Writers Network Interview

Literary Heavyweights and Geek Books

Maybe Folks Just Don't Like Mothers as Fish

Moving...

My Lion Can Beat Up Your Stupid Wizard

Bondurant Reads at Baltimore Book Festival

Drugs, Vomit, and No Novacaine on Oprah

Hot New Deals

BoD: On Celtic Tides

Under Construction

Interview: Vicki Hendricks, Author

Award Nominations for Jones

The Game Enters NYT Bestseller List

More Katrina Books

Go All in at Powell's

Computer: Friend or Foe of Books?

The Steinbrenner of Horse Racing

BoD: Snowblind

Bulldog Agents

Serves 'Em Right

First Katrina Book Deals Announced

BoD: Deep Blues

Happy Birthday Square Books

BoD: U2 at the End of the World

Celebrities as Novelists

It's Okay if You Put Down the Book Once in a While

BoD: Hammer of the Gods

Another Sad Loss for the Blues

The Aquisition Process

NYT Look at Pub Literature

BoD: The Assault on Tony's

Grisham Donates Millions to Hurricane Relief

Booker Shortlist Announced

Rock Novels

BoD: Lords of Chaos

Great Quotes

I Guess It's Not Just the Germans

BoD: Bookmark Now

Glimmertrain Publishes New Bondurant Story

BoD: Among the Thugs

Ford Writes Elegy for New Orleans

ABA announces Bookseller Relief Fund

BoD: The Thirsty Muse

Interview: Andrew Vachss, Author

100 Years of Assistance in Playing the Ponies

RIP R.L.

MS Bookstores Destroyed

Interview: Billy Sheehan, Musician

More on Mr. Koch

Gulf Coast Bookstores and Hurricane Katrina

The Trials of Freelancing

Book of Revelation to be Filmed

A Couple of Cool Blogs

PublishAmerica Faces Lawsuit

Old School Water Torture... Just... Make... It... Stop

Publishing Too Open?

Miss Snark: Literary Whippings

BoD: Bloodbrothers

Lolita at 50

McInerney Reviews Kunkel

Meno to Appear in DC

BoD: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

Another Sleepy Friday

The Difference Between Writer and Author

Literary Aspirations and eBay

Book Design and Leaving Las Vegas

Pat Walsh Interview on Powell's

Bender Appearing at Powell's

Interesting Interview with Max Barry

Interview: Shannon Ravenel, Editor

Emerging Writers Network Interivew of Lit Journal Editors

Defending Bret

John T. Edge Reviewed in The Times

Editor Moves: Lucas to Harelquin

McInerney's 9/11 Book Jacket

Happy Friday

Call for Geek Authors

Rick Moody on Writing Programs

Review: Bleed into Me

Gives New Meaning to the Term "Going All In"

Methadone for Mt. Dew?

Seems Athletes Aren't the Only Ones Using this Excuse

Calvin's a Demanding Reader

Lansdale Sells Film Rights

Lunar Park Reviews and Coverage

This is Almost Too Easy

The Impacts of Amazon

Here's a Ray Bradbury Story Just Waiting to be Written

The Truth Behind Trucker Hats

Two Books, Two Performances

Sunday Book Review Round Up

Lots of Movement at NYT Book Review

You Can't Avoid: Death, Taxes, and Book Club Torture

Booker Prize Longlist Released

Can We Please Outlaw Mirror Descriptions of Characters?

Editor and Agent Moves

BoD: Paris Review Book of People with Problems

Interview: George Saunders, Author

BoD: CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

Adventures in the Postal Wilderness

The Role of Editors in Modern Publishing

First Contests, Now Book Reviews, What's Next?

Foer and Krauss Expecting

Vindicated, and it Feels So Good

Very Cool Website for Lethem

Bret Easton Ellis Profile

Brown Dog's Back

The Place of Fiction in Today's Magazines

BoD: The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas

Blue Moon Rising Over Oxford

Ohhhh.. So Now He's Guilty?

So Now I Guess He's the Most Trusted Voice in News

BoD: No Plot? No Problem!

I Coulda Been a Contenda... I Coulda Been a Pirate!

I Walk the Line, On the Page

BoD: Sky Burial

Creative Writing Director Interviews

Writers' Blogs and Publishing Attention

BoD: French Women Don't Get Fat

Personal Editor Tastes and Company Decisions

BoD: The Outlaw Bible of American Literature

Spin the Wheel!

Cormac on Bestseller List

BoD: The Other Hollywood

Speaking of Harry Potter Pre-Orders

Release Date for New Max Barry Announced

Bad Writing Honored

Hope for the Slush Pile Afterall

New York Times -- Kentucky Bureau

Sad Events but Looks Like an Interesting Book

Interview: Kaui Hart Hemmings, Author

When Potterites Attack

More Freed Discussion

Batman Influenced by Fight Club?

Irvine Welsh to Write... a Romanace?

Photos of Hemingway Look-Alike

Crime Author Bunker Dies

Teen Phenoms Proceed with Caution

Who Knew It Sucked So Bad to Be a Published Writer?

Deals Aplenty!

John T. Edge to Appear at Square Books

Profile of James Frey

Interview: Cynthia Shearer, Author

Bidding War for Potter Mistakes Down Under

If You're a Fugitive, Isn't Your Reputation Already In Shambles?

Libraries for Coffee Shops?

Trident Media Seals Deal

Great Line

BoD: A Separate Peace

Impressive Showing from Cormac

Harry Impacts

Sorting Through the Red Pencil Marks

BoD: Controlled Burn

Writerisms to Avoid

Some Art School/Workshop Teacher Should've Put a Stop to this Nonsense Long Ago

Hilarious Headline

Review: 78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published...

Guy Better Get His Birkenstocks Ready

Where to Turn?

Congrats to Slushpile Favorites

A Bit from The Onion

BoD: No Country for Old Men

Unfortunate Timing

Interview: Gary Fisketjon, Editor

Writing Teacher Signs Big Book Deal

Walsh to Appear at Clean Well Lighted Place

BoD: Silence on the Wire

Great New Issue of The Oxford American

Wanna Know What It's Like in Publishing?

Book Design Blog

BoD: MiMo

No Nonsense Writing Advice from Computer Guru

Amazon's Hall of Fame

In Memory of Evan Hunter

Tragedy in London

BoD: The Celestial Jukebox

Scum

Cover Art Similarities

Interview: Matt Bondurant, Author

Does Running a Literary Blog Count?

BoD: To the Power of Three

Tip: Writing Exercise from John Gardner

Editor Moves: Regan Editors Named

BoD: The Great Gatsby

Baltimore Book Project Gets Publicity

Poor Writing Costs Millions

Myths Writers Live By, But Should Abandon

Baby Steps...

We Can Rebuild It. We Have The Technology. Better... Stronger... Faster

Massive Failure

Interview: John McManus, Author

Interview: James Rollins, Author

Interview: Pat Walsh, Editor

Interview: Stephen Graham Jones, Author

Interview: J.E. Pitts, Editor

Interview: Stuart Woods, Author

Interview: Mike Magnuson, Author

Interview: John Dufresne, Author

Trying to Get Published on Toilet Paper

Searching for the Secret

Keep Loading the Starting Gate

BoD: House of Thieves

BoD: The Dark Fields

BoD: Bitter Milk

BoD: Bad Cat

BoD: The Cliff Walk

BoD: On Bullshit

Just When I Thought They Would Finally Shut Up

If We Had Sound on this Website, You'd Hear Me Puking

Whatever Happened to the Delete Key?

Tip: Imitation Teaches Originality

Tip: Focus on the Lesser Known Details

Tip: Zen and the Patience of Writing

Here's Why I'll Never Make the Corner Office

Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

Author to Write Poker Column

My Man Billy Bob Starring with Brad

MacAdam/Cage Departures

Lish to Return

If You've Got the Money, Honey, I've Got the Time

Barksdale Funds Literacy Program

Agent Moves: Cabot to the Gernert Company

Agent Moves: Karchmar to William Morris

Early Reviews for Lunar Park

Review: Cream

Review: Haunted

Review: The Accidental Hunter

Review: So What!

No Holds Barred Publishing Advice

Jackson Predictions Coming True

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