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S&S Marks 100 Years with Back-to-Back Celebrations
On April 8 and 9, Simon & Schuster hosted two star-studded centenary fetes in New York City to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding.
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Bologna 2024: War Leaves a Mark
As expected, this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair is itself touched by and reflective of the global political scene, particularly the wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine.
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Women's Media Group Celebrates 50 Years
More than 200 members of the Women's Media Group celebrated its 50th anniversary at a March 25 gala at the New-York Historical Society. Marie Dutton Brown, Mary McAveney, We Need Diverse Books, and the Brooklyn Public Library were among the night's honorees.
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TLA 2024 Preview: Leading the Way in the Lone Star State
Under the conference theme “Stories Inspire. Opportunities Await,” Texas Library Association leaders say the 2024 annual conference, set for April 13–16 in San Antonio, is expected to draw more than 5,000 attendees.
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A Romantasy Festival Comes to Chicago
Romantasy was added as a category in the Goodreads Choice Awards in 2023—a fact mentioned several times at the inaugural Romantasy Literary Genre Festival, held March 22–24 at the Otherworld Theater in Chicago.
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MoCCA 2024 Makes a Splash
This year's MoCCA Arts Fest, an annual indie comics and graphic novel festival held March 16-17, drew large and enthusiastic crowds to New York City's Metropolitan Pavilion.
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'PW' Partners with AALA on 2024 U.S. Book Show
'Publishers Weekly' and the Association of American Literary Agents will copresent the 2024 U.S. Book Show, a one-day in-person educational conference for agents, editors, marketers, and book publishing professionals, at NYU's Kimmel Center in New York City on May 22.
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Asian American Book Club Launches with Lunar New Year Party
The organization held its soft launch party last night in Brooklyn, N.Y., which event coproduced by Hachette Book Group and Kundiman and featured six authors, including Curtis Chin and Kat Chow.
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Winter Institute 2024: Doris Kearns Goodwin Turns the Lens of History on Herself
During Winter Institute's closing keynote in Cincinnati, author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin praised indie booksellers and discussed her deeply personal new book, 'An Unfinished Love Story.'
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Michele Norris Explores Race and Identity In a New Book on the Race Card Project
The journalist spoke to the 951 booksellers attending Winter Institute about the Race Card Project, which she launched 14 years ago, and how it has evolved into a much-needed dialogue about both race and identity in the U.S.—and a new book, 'Our Hidden Conversations.'
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