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BookCon 2015: The Civil War Through a Graphic Kaleidoscope
Using graphic books to teach, or to lure a more visual reader to books, is nothing new, but "Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War," by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman, seems destined to resonate.
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BookCon 2015: ‘Office’ Duo Kaling and Novak Reunite to Open BookCon
On Saturday, former 'Office' co-stars B.J. Novak and Mindy Kaling reunited on stage to kick off the second annual BookCon in front of a packed and boisterous crowd.
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BookCon 2015: A New Look for an Old Favorite
More than half a century after he created The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster is here at BookCon to celebrate a new hardcover edition of the enduring classic.
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BookCon 2015: A Classy Canine to the Rescue
Men and fashion? The well-dressed man? Just look around, and you’ll see that it’s a concept reserved for glossy magazines and red carpets, but rarely found in reality.
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BookCon 2015: Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak Together Again
Mindy Kaling will take the stage in the Special Events Hall to kick off the second annual BookCon today at 11 a.m.
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BookCon 2015: John Green: Multi-Mega Star
Apparently movies would suck without John Green, who is downright effusive about how the movie adaptation of his 2008 novel, "Paper Towns," turned out.
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BookCon 2015: A Bad Apple for the Big Apple
The 700,000+ subscribers to Mamrie Hart’s YouTube series, You Deserve a Drink, already know about the custom cocktails that Hart creates each week in honor of whoever in pop culture needs it most.
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BookCon 2015: Nick Offerman: He’s Got Gumption
Join Nick Offerman in the Special Events Hall today in an hour of conversation, music, and muckraking as he presents his new book, "Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers."
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BookCon 2015: Highlights
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BookCon 2015: Taye Diggs and Shane Evans: Joyful in a Diverse World
At 1 p.m. today in Room 1A10, “Mixed Me: A Discussion with Taye Diggs and Shane Evans” will address more than just a new picture book.
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BookCon 2015: In Our World and Beyond Fantasy, and Reality
Joe Monti, executive editor for Simon & Schuster’s new Saga imprint for science fiction/fantasy, or SFF, admits that diversity is more than an intellectual exercise.
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BookCon 2015: Mac Barnett and Jory John: The Terrible Two Put the Con Into BookCon
We are going to put the con back into BookCon,” Mac Barnett, says of the pranking workshop that he is leading with his fellow expert, or, partner-in-crime, Jory John, today, noon–12:45 p.m., on the Downtown Stage.
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BookCon 2015: Aziz Ansari: A Seriously Funny Look at Love
Looking for love these days isn’t for the faint of heart.
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BookCon 2015: David Duchovny on Spiritual Cows, Circumcised Pigs, but Not Cancer Man
David Duchovny, best-known for his portrayals on TV of Fox Mulder on The X-Files, and Hank Moody on Californication, is finally where he originally thought he would end up: as a writer.
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BookCon 2015: The Longest Line
Check out this hyperlapse video we took of the huge line to get into BookCon this morning!
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BookCon 2015: Mother/Daughter Team
Ask most mothers of teenage daughters if they could imagine spending five days a week cooped up in an office for eight hours a day working on a project together for an entire summer, and the answers you would get might not be printable. Not so for bestselling author Jodi Picoult, who began a writing adventure six years ago when her daughter Samantha van Leer.
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2015 LéaLA Draws More than 86,000
With more than 200 literary and cultural activities in the span of three days, LéaLA, the Los Angeles Spanish-Language Book Fair, demonstrated American Hispanics’ desire to connect with books that reflect their culture in their language.
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Hub City Writers Project Celebrates 20 Years of Literary Energy
Hatched over coffee 20 years ago, the Hub City Writers Project has grown into an indie press, a nonprofit bookstore and driving force behind the literary arts in Spartanburg, SC.
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Society of Midland Authors Celebrates 100 Years
The Society of Midland Authors celebrated its centenary this past weekend.
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LéaLA Announces Lineup
LéaLA, the Spanish-language book fair, returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center from May 15 to 17, with a diverse literary and cultural program.