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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Sully Aces BookExpo Appearance
With the attention of more than 100 conventiongoers at stake, Sully's heroic brevity at BookExpo landed listeners safely at the five o'clock cocktail hour.
BookExpo Another (Good) Excuse to Cry, ‘The Sky Is Falling!’
The once-joyous red-letter events of the cultural calendar reduced to doom-y article ledes.
Steven Tyler ‘Rocks’ BookExpo Keynote, Confuses Chuck Klosterman
Topics included raccoon hunting, African cranes, harmonic fifths, and growing up in the Bronx with big lips.
Politics at BEA: Buckley Bombs, Hodgman Kills, Markos Rips Thomas Friedman
The scene at Book Expo's politically themed author luncheon was surprisingly tense.
BEA Dispatch: Art Spiegelman Calls Out Contemporary Comics
At Book Expo in L.A., Spiegelman disses FSG's graphic-novel histories and talks up 'manga.'
Dispatch From BEA: Ron Jeremy, Best-selling Author
"'He was this, this, this, this, a lot of dick jokes, now he's really stiff, and best-selling author.'"
Dispatch From BEA: Doom-Sayers, Agents, and Jackie Collins
Walking the floor at the country's biggest book convention.
Dispatch From BEA: Witches, Barnacle Penises Highlight the Year's Buzz Books
"Are there pictures?" "Yes, which is important to me, because I don't like to read."
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