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BookCon 2018: Taye Diggs and Shane W. Evans: Fathers and Friends
The actor and his lifelong friend have channeled their deep bond into a series of powerful and passionate picture books.
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BookCon 2018: Congressman John Lewis Marches On
Run, the next installment in Lewis's graphic autobiography, pubs this fall.
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BookCon 2018: Meet Four Social Justice Warriors
The award-winning authors Kwame Alexander, Jason Reynolds, Angie Thomas, and Jacqueline Woodson will join podcaster and activist DeRay Mckesson to discuss social justice and positive representation in young adult literature.
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BookExpo 2018: This Year's Show In Review
After a confusing opening day at the trade show, publishers and booksellers settled into discussing industry issues and getting ready for the fall season.
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BookExpo 2018: Children's Authors Tell Booksellers: 'We Are All Dreamers Here'
Emcee Jacqueline Woodson set the tone for Friday morning’s children’s book and author breakfast at BookExpo, explaining, “Through our narratives, we’re trying to change this crazy world.”
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BookExpo 2018: The Future of Book Retail is Innovation and Experimentation
Despite fears of a physical store "retail apocalypse," NPD BookScan's Kristen McLean outlined a future for indie booksellers driven by experimentation and selling books in more places.
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BookExpo 2018: Big Kids' Books of the Show
We spoke with a number of booksellers about their impressions of the show, and the titles they were most looking forward to grabbing at publishers’ booths.
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BookExpo 2018: Invoicing Overhaul, Gentrification, and Sean Spicer among ABA’s Town Hall Topics
ABA CEO Oren Teicher urged booksellers to push American publishers to debut the centralized web-based invoicing program Batch, Josh Cook of Porter Square Books made a forceful declaration for booksellers to be more politically engaged, and more.
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BookExpo 2018: Hoopla Turns Five
This summer Hoopla, the digital arm of Midwest Tape, which provides digital media lending services for more than 1,600 U.S. and Canadian public libraries, is marking its fifth year since startup.
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BookExpo 2018: Quirk Gets Graphic
With a catalogue that includes'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' and 'Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,' Quirk Books fits solidly in the nerd/pop culture niche.
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BookExpo 2018: Warning: A Criminal Element Is Lurking
If you are a crime, thriller, or mystery fan and you haven’t checked out criminalelement.com, stop everything and go right now. We’ll wait...
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BookExpo 2018: What’s Cooking?
No book industry gathering would be complete without food—or books about food—for both adults and kids who want to learn how to cook or get new techniques for doing it faster, with healthy ingredients and bigger flavors.
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BookExpo 2018: DK Relaunches Eyewitness Travel Guides
In its first major redesign since the series was launched in 1993, DK’s Eyewitness Travel Guides are being revamped for the digital age.
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BookExpo 2018: Jonathan Lethem: Trumped No More
When Jonathan Lethem (the author of 'Motherless Brooklyn' and many other books), who works at his craft every day, is so upset he doesn’t want to write, something is very, very wrong.
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BookExpo 2018: Porochista Khakpour: Illness as Metaphor
“My goal is no longer a perfect body or hair. My goal is to live to be an old woman,” says Iranian-American novelist Porochista Khakpour.
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BookExpo 2018: Laurie Keller: The Clothes Make the Potato
When Potato—the star of 'Potato Pants!' (Holt/Ottaviano, Oct.)—hears about a one-day sale on potato pants (pants made out of potatoes, of course!), he is so excited, he starts doing the robot.
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Kristi Charish: Strong Women and the Dead
“This is probably the biggest reading event I’ve ever attended,” says Kristi Charish, who’s coming from Canada to attend her first BookExpo.
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BookExpo 2018: Sean Spicer: Road to Renown
What was it like for Sean Spicer to be President Donald Trump’s press secretary?
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Four Questions for April Genevieve Tucholke
With 'The Boneless Mercies,' a reimagining of the Beowulf legend in which four mercenary girls set out to defeat a marauding monster, YA author Tucholke is making her first foray into fantasy.
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BookExpo 2018: Camron Wright Owes It All to Indie Booksellers
Warning: Other authors may not want to read this story because it will make them want to tear their hair out.