BookExpo 2009: ‘Productive Despair’
This year, having taken their meds in the form of layoffs and steep losses, publishers were in a strange mood.
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This year, having taken their meds in the form of layoffs and steep losses, publishers were in a strange mood.
The once-joyous red-letter events of the cultural calendar reduced to doom-y article ledes.
Topics included raccoon hunting, African cranes, harmonic fifths, and growing up in the Bronx with big lips.
sarah palin, barack obama, america's sweetheart, ink-stained wretches, health care, the greatest depression, tv, congress, levi johnston, david paterson, goldman sachs, health carnage, health-care reform, hillary clinton, lou dobbs, ballsy crime, fox news, gossip girl, hellivision, rudy giuliani, secretary of awesome, 9/11 trials, ben nelson, bill o'reilly, bloomberg, crime, elections, going rogue, harry reid, mayor bloomberg, new jersey, oh albany!, reality tv, senate, sex on skates