GalleyCat expanded today, sharing its digital space with mediabistro.com's thirteenth blog, eBookNewser. Our digitally obsessed sibling will cover eBooks, digital reading devices, publishing technology, smartphone reading applications, digital self-publishing, and the rapidly evolving future of...

A rare behind-the-scenes conversation with Larry David about his creative becoming and processes, in 6 parts (takes a minute to get going, you can skip to around 5:00 in part 1 to get to the meat of it, and then parts 2-5 follow in links from there…

Today is the deadline for voluntary buyouts at the NY Times, and reportedly, two business reporters and published authors will accept.

The first was Alex Berenson, a reporter who has covered everything from the war in Iraq to disaster in New Orleans. He is also the author of three spy novels, including "The Silent Man." His next book is "The Midnight House," a novel arriving in stores in early February. The second journalist and author to accept a buyout is Louis Uchitelle (pictured, via). In 2006, he published "The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences" with Random House. He has reported for the NY Times since...

Last week GalleyCat readers fiercely debated Twitter's usefulness as a bookselling tool. Following an online conversation about Electric Literature's Twitter experiment, our readers left these important thoughts...

Guy L. Gonzalez wrote: "Twitter can certainly sell books, but if...

Thanks to everyone who came out on Saturday. It was an exceptional day despite the weather. I wanted to give a special thanks to Bill Kartalopoulos for running such a great slate of programming. I wanted to note a few things, partly in response to Heidi's posts on the event. According to very unscientific polling, sales were very strong, with as least one publisher saying it was his best sales day ever. My own sales were extremely strong. People seemed to be there to find and buy things. We do hope to move it somewhere next year that would allow us to have programming and exhibitors in a single space. I think in many ways the most successful aspect was the community feeling...

Fred Lebain (via Designboom) takes pictures of scenes, then takes pictures of those scenes super-imposed on the same scene. The nod to Magritte’s “La Condition Humaine” (1933) goes without saying, but what really struck me was how similar the light was in both scenes, the shadows aligning perfectly with each other. We will assume Lebain [...]

San Francisco is a town of many pleasant associations. To start, there’s sourdough bread, Pier 7, 826 Valencia, the Embarcadero, fog, Keith Hufnagel, Barry McGee, burritos, bridges, hills, bookstores, FTC, Amoeba, and so forth. The list goes on. That’s why it’s particularly exciting that Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterly comes to us in the form of [...]

If my subconscious spontaneously writes stories by itself on random nights, then it can be trained to do so on a regular basis.

Examining a Marc Bell drawing is like gaining entry into the mind of a psychotically talented and slightly autistic doodle-machine. It’s art that’s fun to look at but funner to snuggle up with, which is why we’re happy that the Vancouver artist has released a book of comics and artwork on drawn and quarterly. Hot [...]