- 6/8/12 /
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Book Expo 2012: The Ten Hottest Prospects
Tom Wolfe, Michael Chabon and a little someone named...J.K. Rowling!
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- 6/5/12 /
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Breakfast With Stephen Colbert Involves Euphemisms for His Penis
At the annual Book Expo America, the comedian brought the laughs, but it was author Barbara Kingsolver who captivated the audience.
- 5/27/11 /
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The Ten Hottest Prospects From This Year’s Book Expo
New works by Jeffrey Eugenides and Ann Patchett were among the novels and nonfiction that walked away with the most buzz.
- 5/27/10 /
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Jon Stewart Takes On Garrison Keillor and Needy Audience Members at the Book Expo
"Is anyone here ... maybe just curious about the shit we do?"
- 5/27/10 /
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Fear, Loathing, and E-Books at the 2010 Book Expo
The mood is dystopian. Thanks, Amazon.
- 6/1/09 /
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BookExpo 2009: ‘Productive Despair’
This year, having taken their meds in the form of layoffs and steep losses, publishers were in a strange mood.
- 6/1/09 /
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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.
- 5/29/09 /
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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.
- 5/29/09 /
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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.
- 6/2/08 /
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Politics at BEA: Buckley Bombs, Hodgman Kills, Markos Rips Thomas Friedman
The scene at Book Expo's politically themed author luncheon was surprisingly tense.
- 6/2/08 /
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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.'
- 6/2/08 /
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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.'"
- 5/30/08 /
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Dispatch From BEA: Doom-Sayers, Agents, and Jackie Collins
Walking the floor at the country's biggest book convention.
- 5/30/08 /
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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."
- 6/5/07 /
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Book Expo GalleyWatch: Which Fall Books Got the Biggest Push?
- 6/5/07 /
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Russell Simmons's Crazy Koans
- 6/5/07 /
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The Book Expo Top Ten: Madeleines, Buddakan, and Rosie O'Donnell
- 6/4/07 /
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Mariannegelina!
- 6/4/07 /
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Here She Comes to Save the Day! Valerie ‘Flame’: Part II
- 6/4/07 /
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Ian McEwan: The Major Motion Picture
- 6/4/07 /
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BEA Buzz Books: Foreskins, Frank Lloyd Wright, and … Poetry?
- 6/1/07 /
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Book Expo Sightings: Tom Perrotta, Adrian Tomine, Julianne Moore, and Someone in a Large Balloon Hat
- 6/1/07 /
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Which Authors Will Be ‘Times’ Favorites Next Week? Ian McEwan and Tina Brown
- 6/1/07 /
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Margaret Atwood Signs Autographs Via the Miracle of the Internets
- 6/1/07 /
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