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BookCon 2015: In Full Bloom
It’s been more than 15 years since Judy Blume’s last novel for adults, Summer Sisters, was published, in 1998, so the publication of her new adult novel is a very big deal, what publishers like to call a rare “publishing event.”
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BookCon 2015: In the Unlikely Event
Can a YouTube star also become a star author?
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BookCon 2015: Sweet as HONY
In just five short years, the followers of Brandon Stanton’s “Humans of New York” Facebook page and blog have grown to 12 million.
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BookCon 2015: YA Authors: We’re All Hungry for Diversity
As anyone knows who’s read anything by the five authors on today’s diversity panel, none has ever shied away from controversy.
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BookCon 2015: Love Birds
Here at the Javits, love and romance are in the air—and at the Penguin Truck, which is parked outside the show floor and will be staffed today, 10 a.m.–12 p.m., by purveyors of passion on the page.
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BookCon 2015: R.L. Stine on the Big Screen
After two decades and 400 million copies of Goosebumps books sold worldwide, R.L. Stine gets to talk about the series in a whole new way: as a major motion picture.
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BookCon 2015: Julianne Moore and Brian Selznick: From Screen-to-Page and Page-to-Screen: Star Power in Children’s Book
Actress Julianne Moore and award-winning writer and illustrator Brian Selznick have more in common than writing books for children.
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BookCon 2015: Put ’Em Up! Powerhouse Mystery Writers Reveal Secrets on the ‘Pencil Panel’
Don’t tell anyone,” confides bestselling author Brad Meltzer about today’s panel “Inside the Mystery Writer’s Studio,” in which he is participating with fellow superstars James Patterson and Nelson DeMille.
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BookCon 2015: Hail, Hail, the Ganga’s All Here!
Sixty-five years ago, the first Peanuts comic strip, created by Charles Schulz, was published.
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BookCon 2015: Khloe Kardashian: Negotiating the Zigzags of Life
Kardashian will be signing bookplates for fans today, 11 a.m.–noon, at the Regan Arts booth (2644), as well as being available for a photo-op with fans.
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BookCon 2015: Candace Bushnell: Who Wants Reality?
Think Candace Bushnell, and you think of actress Sarah Jessica Parker and her swirling pink tutu dress getting splattered with mud by a passing bus.
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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.