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.
politics, 2012, occupy wall street, herman cain, no he cain't, crimes and misdemeanors, the national interest, rick perry, video, michael bloomberg, mitt romney, neighborhood news, nypd, occupy everywhere, campaign 2012, herman cain sexual harassment, ink-stained wretches, nyc, protest movements, rick rolling, the third terminator, barack obama, business, made-off, bernie madoff, early and awkward, finance, google, international intrigue, jon huntsman, mf global, not too big to fail, occupy oakland, sad things, the hunt for red november