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Browsing BEA: “It Won’t Be Dull”

As the great mother ship BookExpo America prepares to set down in New York City on May 1, and the wall-to-wall lineup of bashes, fests, and sundry galas has us all excruciatingly triple-booked, Publishing Trends checked in with a number of show veterans to see whether this year’s industry summit will be a whirlwind of…Continue Reading

Heads Up, Frankfurt

Fortunately, just a few cancellations have affected this month’s Frankfurt Book Fair — as publishers rethink travel plans in the wake of September 11 — leaving most everyone’s Palm Pilots overbooked in typical fashion with meetings and soirées. To help liven up those long Buchmesse trudges, PT’s advance foreign rights team has rounded up a…Continue Reading

International Fiction Bestsellers

One Flew Over Oslo Norway’s Fossum Gets Real, Sweden Goes Hard-Boiled, And Luna Rises Over Argentina Sweden has veered “disturbingly close to reality” in recent months as Norwegian author Karin Fossum takes the nation on a harrowing journey right up to the belfry of The House of the Insane. The book, which has been on…Continue Reading