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BookExpo 2018: Rep. John Lewis, the Saga Continues
In the March trilogy, Congressman John Lewis, a renowned figure in the history of the civil rights movement and American social justice, and congressional staffer Andrew Aydin, Lewis’s digital director and policy adviser, wrote a graphic memoir about the struggle for racial justice.
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BookExpo 2018: Abbi Jacobson: Getting Real with Comedian Chris Gethard
“Feeling cool, calm, and collected about this,” tweets Abbi Jacobson, about her upcoming book. However, the title, 'I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff' (Grand Central, Oct.) hints at the opposite.
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BookExpo 2018: Beschloss, Dyson, and Goodwin on Leadership
Political books have been a particularly hot category in 2018, starting with the publication of Michael Wolff’s 'Fire and Fury' at the beginning of January and continuing with James Comey’s 'A Higher Loyalty.'
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BookExpo 2018: Ngozi Ukazu: The Puck Stops Here
Texas native Ngozi Ukazu first wrote about hockey in a screenplay-writing seminar during her senior year at Yale.
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BookExpo 2018: Deborah Harkness: From Campus to the Macabre
Deborah Harkness, history professor at the University of Southern California, was riveted by the alternate world of the Twilight series, a free-spirited departure from the 16th-century Elizabethan era that was her specialty.
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BookExpo 2018: Amber Tamblyn: No More Victims
Just weeks before the Harvey Weinstein scandal hit and the #MeToo movement went viral, actress, writer, and film director Amber Tamblyn wrote an ardent 'New York Times' editorial about how she was done with not being believed about her own harassment.
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BookExpo 2018: Sally Field: Putting It Together
Award-winning actress and director Sally Field has kept personal journals for decades and always intended to keep her writing private.
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BookExpo 2018: Audio, Bigger and Better: No Apology Necessary
For the 18th year in a row, BookExpo will host the APA’s Annual Author Tea.
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BookExpo 2018: Kate Morton: Timekeeper
It’s no wonder that Kate Morton, who travels with aplomb to vastly different time zones between her current London residence and her homeland of Australia, is fascinated by different aspects of time.
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BookExpo 2018: Colleen Hoover: A Very Busy Bookworm
Colleen Hoover makes the time to oversee a subscription box program and specialty bookstore that together have raised more than a million dollars for charity.
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BookExpo 2018: The Audiobook Market Grows Globally
The audiobook boom is most prominent in North America, and it is spreading across the world, as discussed in a panel on Wednesday at the New York Rights Fair entitled “The Audiobook Heard ‘Round the World.”
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BookExpo 2018: PW Star Watch Enters Its Fourth Year
Calling all mavericks, visionaries, thinkers, and dreamers!
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BookExpo 2018: Booksellers Share Their Hot Picks
Rounding up this year's big books of BookExpo, according to booksellers on the show floor, range from the former first lady's upcoming memoir to a work of autofiction written by a convicted bank robber.
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BookExpo 2018: ABA Calls for Invoicing Overhaul; Bookseller Calls for 'Action' Against Spicer
ABA CEO Oren Teicher announced the organization's investment in Batch and called for bookseller support. Booksellers pushed for a boycott of Sean Spicer at BookExpo and increased awareness of gentrification in bookselling.
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BookExpo 2018: At PEN Panel, Free Speech and Race Go Hand in Hand
This year’s PEN America–hosted BookExpo panel saw journalists and a civil rights activist debate the meaning of free speech in an era of “fake news” and deep racial tensions.
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BookExpo 2018: CEOs See a Stable Book Industry in an Unstable World
For the book business, print and digital markets have found balance, CEOs say, but political instability in the culture at large remains a cause for concern.
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BookExpo 2018: Authors Tell Booksellers, It's Best of Times, It's Worst of Times
BookExpo kicked off with the traditional adult book breakfast featuring three comedians, two novelists, and one history professor drawing laughs even while explaining how political and social upheavals inspire their writing.
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BookExpo 2018: Binc Launches Bookseller Scholarship in Memory of Carla Gray
The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation and the Friends of Carla Gray committee are introducing a scholarship to help an early-career bookseller learn more about the trade and to reinforce the ties between their store and the community.
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BookExpo 2018: Open Road Integrated Media and Ingram Team Up
Open Road Integrated Media, a content company that delivers a variety of digital experiences for readers, recently announced a new strategic alliance with Ingram Content Group to expand consumer reach and boost how readers discover new books.
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BookExpo 2018: How Real Life Inspires Writers
'Show Daily at BookExpo' asked all six of the Adult Buzz authors what inspired their books. Here are their answers.