Third Day: Wednesday, 05/25

It turned out that, indeed, there was another area of the exhibit that had more publishers of literary fiction than the area I’d previously visited.  By the end of the day I had a bag full of so many goodies I had to ship them home.  First, I stopped (again) by Europa Editions’s table because I’d been told that they would give books away.  I had the unexpected luck of meeting the publisher himself, Kent Caroll, who let me choose two novels.  I picked The...

Second Day, Tuesday, May 24th

If someone had told me that at the biggest book exhibit in North America I would find only a handful of books I’d like to read I wouldn’t have believed them.  Maybe I spent my time in the least interesting part of the exhibit…I don’t know.  The fact is that about half of the exhibit was dedicated to various technological devices that are replacing print, and about half of the other half represented (very) kitschy children’s books.