Will Allison is scheduled to appear today at Square Books in Oxford, MS. There will be a signing/reception at 5pm and a reading from his new novel, What You Have Left, at 5:30pm. Call 1-800-648-4001 for more information or if you want to have them mail a signed copy to your home. I’ve picked up…
Sometimes weird coincidences just happen. The annual Book Expo America (BEA) convention gets a fair amount of coverage in the mainstream press so many people learn about it for the first time. After the book world’s BEA frenzy recently, several aspiring authors emailed me to ask if they should attend next year. “With so many…
The New Yorker has a great article about the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, a literary archive that houses a number of priceless literary treasures.
Lo, Book Expo America is upon us. So hoards of publishing professional will descend upon the Javits Center in New York to gorge upon free advance copies, swag, and other loot. There were a fair number of complaints about the attendance at last year’s convention since it was held in Washington, DC. But now that it’s…