The best book you are not reading because it's been widely ignored is Matthew Specktor's That Summertime Sound. How does a book this intimate and honest and real get overlooked? It's depressing to think about. The book's about obsession and...

Three holiday-themed web videos showed up in GalleyCat's inbox this December. In the spirit of holiday competition, we've collected them in a special Holiday Book Video Showdown.

First up the Penguin USA site (creators of that screening room graphic) has a video featuring a few authors...

Over a year ago, in a conversation with my editor, I confessed that I'd been struggling -- really struggling -- with the second novel. I speculated that this could have something to do with the publication of the first novel,...

It was a rough year for the publishing industry, from the conglomerate publishers down to the indie bookstores. While preparing for a podcast interview with Beyond the Book, this GalleyCat editor compiled a temporary list of the worst moments in publishing in 2009.

A best moments in...

Perhaps the trend that was at least partly inspired by W.G. Sebald’s practice of embedding photographs within his works of prose fiction is starting to wane a bit.��� Only two years ago in 2007 there were more than fifteen such titles.��� In 2009, the number has been far fewer. Here is my list of...

As mediabistro.com's eBook Summit nears next week, we've built a special Twitter list collecting the 140-character wisdom from registered summit attendees--a list that includes digital publishers, writers, and journalists.

The list will live at @eBookNewser, the Twitter feed for...

I briefly step on KT's toes to note that today marks an astonishing 29 years since John Lennon was murdered, a loss that's surprisingly raw all these years later. One day I'll write about my memories of my 16-year-old self...

From Ben: My MPhil thesis was on Raymond Williams, and I touched upon his decision to move from working in Adult Education (aka workers education) to becoming a university professor. This was partly an affirmative decision following the rise in working class intake into the universities in the early '60s, but also a result of his disenchantment with a workers' education movement which had been coopted. It seems to me, if anything, the pendulum is swinging in the opposite direction now. To understand the situation now, I think it's important to revisit the history of worker's education in Britain (which I only understand sketchily) - it seems that the formative event was the Ruskin Strike...

Random House CEO Markus Dohle announced today that Crown Publishing Group will be broken into two distinct groups. Crown Publishing Group publisher Jenny Frost is leaving the company. Doubleday Canada's executive publisher Maya Mavjee will take...