- mediabistro.com hired Emily Gould and Andy Heidel to share the GalleyCat workload, and we went to Sloane Crosley‘s book party to celebrate.
- Bob Miller left Hyperion to start his own imprint at HarperCollins; in a totally unrelated move, Hyperion children’s book executives Alessandra Balzer and Donna Bray soon followed.
- Grant Morrison came to New York Comic-Con and blew everyone’s mind.
- Jane Smiley read Jennifer Weiner‘s latest novel and saw pink.
- Lexus paid a bunch of authors to take turns writing chapters of a road trip novel, starring the Lexus IS F.
- Aaron Greenspan, the young man who claims he’s the true inventor of Facebook, decided to self-publish his memoirs, telling us he was doing it from a position of strength.