Pics of the Week, 5/9
-- Publishers Weekly, 5/9/2005
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This week our pictures present the Young Lions of fiction; a book party at the Tribeca Film Festival; the perfect book for imperfect teens; and publisher for a day at Algonquin. | |
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LIONS ROAR
The New York Public Library gave its 2005 Young Lions Fiction award and $10,000 to Andrew Sean Greer for his novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli (FSG), last week in Manhattan. Pictured (l. to r.): finalist Aaron Gwynn; Greer; finalist Stephen Elliott; finalist Marc Bojanowski; Paul LeClerc, president of the New York Public Library.
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TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL FETES BOOK
Sony Pictures Classics threw a party for the premiere of director Sally Potter's new film, YES, starring Joan Allen, at the Tribeca Film Festival and also celebrated the pre-publication of the official book, YES: Screenplay and Notes, to be published by Newmarket Press in June. L. to r: Michael Barker, co-president Sony Pictures Classics; Joan Allen; Sally Potter; and Esther Margolis, publisher, Newmarket Press. (Photo credit: Christopher Sheppard) |
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PERFECT IN PINK
Natasha Friend, author of Perfect (Milkweed), a novel about a 13-year-old dealing with bulimia, dropped by the Young Women's Leadership Charter School in Chicago to meet fans of the book. Friend (l.) is down front, along with publicist Emily Cook (r.), who provided the Perfect T-shirts. (Photo credit: Sally Casper) |
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PUBLISHER FOR A DAY
Paul Ingram, buyer at Prairie Lights bookstore, spent a day working on the Algonquin offices in Chapel Hill, N.C., attending editorial and production meetings, working on a Book Sense promo, reading manuscripts from the slush pile and raiding the fridge. L. to r.: Michael Taeckens, Craig Popelars, Ingram and Aimee Bollenbach.
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