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.
barack obama, health care, ink-stained wretches, tv, congress, sarah palin, the greatest depression, goldman sachs, levi johnston, health carnage, hellivision, 9/11 trials, america's sweetheart, ballsy crime, crime, david paterson, health-care reform, lou dobbs, reality tv, tinsley mortimer, aig, ben nelson, bloomberg, fox news, gossip girl, harry reid, hillary clinton, it's never too early to start talking about 2012, mayor bloomberg, oh albany!, rudy giuliani, secretary of awesome, senate, sex on skates, white house