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BEA 2009: One Man's Manure... - Richard Nash
May 30, 2009
This year, there seem to be as many BEAs as there are attendees—its beauty or ugliness is in the eye of almost-but-not-quite-as-many beholders as in previous years.
Ed Champion is bewildered by the absence of hustle for Pynchon; Cader is parsing the numbers; Mike Shatzkin thinks the show has 4 years left,
Don Linn worries this could be the last, but the general consensus is that there is no consensus beyond a little bit down is the new up, and a little bit in the red is the new black.
But, I ask you, where else can someone launch a damn business? Two new publishing enterprises,
one by Dedi Felman and
I called The Round Table, another by
Kassia Kroszer &
Kirk Biglione called Quartet, launched here in the past 24 hours; another, John Oakes and Colin Robinson's
Or Books, will launch tomorrow—I'm betting I've missed a bunch—add please to the comments!
This suggests to me that a trade show is nothing more than a mirror wherein the trade is revealed to itself. And what we see is a lot of manure, with some green shoots...
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Posted by PW's BEA Bloggers on May 30, 2009 | Comments (0)
