Thanks to all my Book Expo video viewers — it was fun to do, and I am currently planning how I want it to develop. I haven’t written up half of the stuff I was planning on, but I think I’ll let my contribution to BEA remain in video form. My one last piece is […]
BOOK EXPO: Interview with McSweeney’s Publishing from Dalmatianjaws on Vimeo. We discussed McSweeney standards such as the DVD quarterly Wholphin and the 826 writing centers, but also the glories of a bathroom book that lists all known of heavy metal bands, the benefits of having a tent at Book Expo, and the problem with McSweeney’s […]
BOOK EXPO: Interview with Kelly Link from Doublefaced J on Vimeo. There are a few more videos I’ll be posting during the week, so check in periodically for more BEA action.
BOOK EXPO America: Interview with NET GALLEY from James Roland on Vimeo. Interviewer: John Fox Videographer: Joel Champagne Video Editor: James Roland
BOOK EXPO America: Day 1, Friday May 30th from RedFence on Vimeo. Interviewer: John Fox Videographer: Joel Champagne Video Editor: James Roland
BOOK EXPO America: Intro – Friday, May 30th from RedFence on Vimeo. Interviewer: John Fox Videographer: Joel Champagne Video Editor: James Roland
So the first day of BookExpo was a flurry of suits and contracts and seminars and banners and free books and guys dressed up like pirates playing live music. As for the pirates, they were promoting a L. Ron Hubbard children/teen series. Don’t worry – I got video. Oh, and my shoulders ache. Free books, […]
The summer issue of Bookforum has a review of Lara Vapnyar’s “Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love.” In these brief, precisely rendered stories, each character’s relationship to food — a lovelorn woman obsessed with vegetables, a man estranged from his wife and in need of all kinds of nourishment, two older women preparing […]
Hello from Puerto Vallarta! I will be here until Wednesday, so please amuse yourself with some of the lovely links in my left hand column, not only my fellow bloggers but the LA lit scene. Also, starting Thursday I will be covering BookExpo, so look back for some video and blog posts.
BookFox turns the ripe old age of two today. Since blog years are like dog years, that’s pretty old. On this date two years ago I posted a quasi-jealous rant after listening to a reading at Dutton’s with Jonathan Safran Foer, and that spawned this blog that has moved from Blogger to WordPress to Typepad […]
