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PC Magazine | Best Of The Internet Rather than focus on lengthy descriptions of the author’s background, influences, and similarities to other works, LitMob cuts to the core of a book, giving you a plot synopsis, enough information to get you interested, and enough background information to get you reading. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334568,00.asp
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RedEye (Chicago Tribune) | 2do - find out what others are reading Check out book reviews and find out what indie artists and other Chicagoans are reading. http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/media/acrobat/2008-11/43471971.pdf
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The New York Observer | Chaos, Lots of Waiting Around at Farrar, Straus’s Bolaño Book Party Friday Night Above (see article), Friday night in the East Village outside Plan B, where Farrar, Straus & Giroux and LitMob.com co-hosted a book party for 2666, the highly anticipated new novel from late Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. Trouble was, no one at FSG thought to make a guest list, so every little culture worker in New York showed up expecting to get in. And none of them came fashionably late: the party officially started at 8 p.m., and according to several attendees there was a line stretching around the corner by 8:30. http://www.observer.com/2008/media/chaos-lots-waiting-around-farrar-strauss-bolano-book-party-friday-night
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The Star-Ledger (NJ.com) | Book Blogging: Talking with the founder of Lit Mob Read any good books lately? Readers looking for the next great novel or biography may seem a little lost as they wander their local bookstores these days. Newspapers and magazines are cutting back on their book review sections and websites like Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com are overflowing with widely-varying customer reviews. So, where can a reader find the next great novel or biography? http://blog.nj.com/jerseyblogs/2008/10/read_any_good_books_lately.html
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PAPERMAG | LIT MOB: A WEBSITE FOR THE BOOKISH HIPSTER When we heard that there was a new literary website in town being billed as “kind of like a Pitchfork for books,” we were intrigued. Lit Mob doesn’t yet have the ability to make or break an author while being smug in the process (à la Pitchfork), but it’s a great hub for the Goodreads set to get smart and pithy takes (no review is longer than three paragraphs) on a carefully-curated selection of books. http://www.papermag.com/blogs/2008/09/lit_mob_a_website_for_the_book.php
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UrbanBaby | Bookin’ It Beach reads are officially over. And while you’ve got the entire Fancy Nancy series memorized, your grad school literature prof wouldn’t be so proud. Time to get back to the books that don’t make your brain atrophy. http://blogs.urbanbaby.com/newyork/2008/09/12/bookin-it/
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Publishers Weekly | Lit Mob Aims for Hiperati Doug Perkul considers himself to be “fairly socially and culturally aware.” In other words, hip. A former managing director for the New York Times and associate publisher at Spin, Perkul is a sponge when it comes to entertainment. But he’s always been frustrated that, while he has go-to blogs to point him toward new movies and music, he’s at a loss when it comes to books. That’s why he and some former colleagues founded Lit Mob. http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6593581.html
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Charleston City Paper | Just when you think literary culture is dead . . . . . . this happens. Around the same time that the Los Angeles Times closes down its stand-alone book section, this website pops up, taking a stand for books and people who love to read. Called Lit Mob, it looks like the literary version of Pitchfork Media, with the same DIY ethic and snarky attitude. http://arts.ccpblogs.com/2008/08/12/just-when-you-think-literary-culture-is-dead/
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GalleyCat As the number of printed book review pages dwindle, its good to see the web taking up the slack. Enter LitMob.com, a niche site that will only review those books that they feel their readers will enjoy - books for the more “discerning reader” (think Pitchfork for books). http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/web_tech/new_review_site_91334.asp
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AppScout | LitMob: Book Reviews with Passion The world of book reviews can be stuffy and uninteresting, with lengthy and long-winded reviews written by authors and critics who may understand their source material but may not relate terribly well with the reading public, or people who would love to get into books but find reviews more difficult to digest than the books themselves. … Enter LitMob, a new kind of book review blog. http://www.appscout.com/2008/08/litmob_book_reviews_with_passi_1.php
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Juxtapoz Many of us here at Juxtapoz are total bookworms; something we’re quite proud of, and use to our advantage when surrounded by idiots at parties. Imagine our excitement then, when former associate publisher of SPIN Magazine, Doug Perkul, let us in on his newest online project: Lit Mob. http://www.juxtapoz.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4058&Itemid=1
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Bookseller.com | New literary website goes live Literary blogger Galleycat picks up on the news of a new literary review website, LitMob.com. http://thebookseller.com/news/64753-new-literary-website-goes-live.html
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