NEW YORK - Yesterday I dutifully reported on some Texas connections at Book Expo. Here are a couple more, springing from right down the road. Arlington native and Dallas resident Bryan Mark Rigg was 21 when he discovered he...
NEW YORK - Multigenerational drama, arts rescuers and Half Broke Horses: Texas is deep in the heart of this year's Book Expo. Here are a few titles to watch. The buzz machine is in motion for Roses, a debut...
NEW YORK - Word is that attendance is down 14 percent from the last time Book Expo was at the Javits Center, in 2007. That means about 5,000 people are missing. The shrinkage can be seen in a few...
NEW YORK - Geez, you go away for a year and everyone's got cool little mug shots next to their blog entries. Fancy. So I took the train from Boston down to New York for Book Expo, the publishing world's...
As usual, Galleycat has a good sampling of lit blogs offering their take. To which I will add: The National Book Critics Circle has various reports, including this telling quote from City Lights executive director Elaine Katzenberger. Speaking to The...
First of what I'm sure will be a series of "things I ran out of time to write when I was still in Los Angeles." The expo seemed light on significant nonfiction titles. I heard secondhand that some publishers are...
Thank you, readers, for making our expo coverage possible. I had fun, and hope you did too. It's your interest that makes my editors decide to send me out here to give you a sense of what is happening; it's...
As we wind down the coverage here, allow me to introduce you to a few of the people I met over the weekend. Or at least the ones who have already filed their stories about the Expo. As you probably...
Between Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and the upcoming Shutter Island (directed by Martin Scorsese), Dennis Lehane has become the most popular novelist to adapt for the movies. I sat down with him for a half hour Sunday afternoon to...
Just another Sunday morning in Los Angeles.......
Sunday is a quiet day at the Expo. Crowds have thinned as many industry types are either packing up to catch early flight back to New York or are perhaps just hungover. Or at least still exhausted from that Prince...
"Just drive under Julie Andrews and park in the garage." So said the security guard at the gate of the 20th Century Fox lot, where HarperCollins threw its Book Expo bash on a chilly Saturday evening. I've been writing about...
OK, this place is reaching a critical mass of zooiness. Star Wars characters are walking around; I just saw a storm trooper leading a life-size R2D2 around by remote control (say it ain't so, 3PO). John Hodgman of The Daily...
I've always had a thing for the university presses, maybe because I'm one of those perpetual college student types. So I quickly gravitated toward the university booths at Book Expo, where I found workers who were happy to explain their...
Why covering BEA is like covering 26,000 blind men describing an elephant: I was chatting at the Ecco booth this morning. A publicist there told me he thought the show was slower and more relaxed this year, compared with the...
There you go, folks -- a look at some gen-u-ine literati. Who are all these people? Beats me. I'm just a humble books editor in Dallas. Actually, these folks at the Knopf party Friday night (at Comme Ca in West...
Here's one for the beer lovers. This October, Houston's Bright Sky Press will publish Mike Renfro's Shine On!, a history of Shiner Brewery and beer. To mark the occasion, Bright Sky was to have frosty cold bottles for the enjoyment...
Well, I was supposed to. I checked out the party for Dennis Lehane's new book The Given Day last night at the Mondrian's Sky Bar on Sunset Blvd. (I feel so LA). Hung out with some nice publicists and some...
Mr. Merschel has already dropped some info on the sheer size of this thing. But it's still hard to comprehend the scene. Row after row after of book purveyors pushing product. Some guy dressed as Shakespeare. People promoting apocalypse books...
Sara Nelson, editor in chief of Publishers Weekly, says her favorite book for the fall season is Philip Roth's Indignation, coming in September from Houghton Mifflin. An acknowledged Roth fan, she says, "I'm not saying it's the best best, but...
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