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ALA 2015: Summer of Love
The 2015 American Library Association Annual Conference, set for June 25–30 at the Moscone Center, should be quite a party. More than 20,000 librarians are expected to descend on the Bay Area for the show, which coincides with the city's annual Gay Pride Parade.
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Bay Area Spotlight 2015: The Bay Area’s Literary Landscape
The Bay Area has long been known for its literary happenings.
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BookCon 2015: BookCon Grows Up... and Moves On
Publishers praise the sophomore consumer show and begin to look to next year’s event in Chicago.
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BookCon 2015: Bestselling Authors Feel the Power of Grassroots
Three bestselling authors discussed how book clubs have helped propel their careers.
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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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