On today’s episode of the Last Night, Right Now and Beyond podcast, recession specials. At this weekend’s Indie and Small Press Book Fair, Literary Bloggers and the Pen American crew faced off in a literary trivia smackdown. Guess which team took the title, and which one tried to cheat. Plus WNYC’s Claudia La Rocco has a list of cheap entertainment for your recession budgets. And MoMA is beginning MoMA Mondays - perfect for after work, but not so great for the out-of-work. Allison Reimus, founder of the blog Jumping in Art Museums will be there tonight, jumping.
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Indie and Small Press Book Fair
Pen American Center
Literary Blogger: Ed Champion
Literary Blogger: Sarah Weinman
Literary Blogger: Levi Asher
Literary Blogger: Eric Rosenfield
Art.Cult: Claudia La Rocco on Recession Specials
Jumping in Art Museums
LVHRD/happycorps
MoMA Mondays
Slideshow: Literary bloggers vs. the Pen American Center at the Indie and Small Press Book Fair this weekend.
December 12th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Thanks for mentioning the Small Press Book Fair at the Mechanic’s Library. This was my 2nd book fair as an exhibitor, but I’ve attended many of them. The feeling among the exhibitors was that business, with a recession on, money short, and people jittery, was pretty awful, but the fair was fabulous: it was. There were some wonderful presses there, some incredibly great books for sale (my own included!) that most buyers cannot find at their local B & N, and a lot of excitement. Book fairs have become not simply buying events, but places where the literary and book communities go to find each other, celebrate this most intimate and magical form of communication, and discover new wonders. What the sellers need to do is get the public to get over its reticence about buying books. I heard over and over again, “I have too many books.” Crazy. You don’t have enough books—you have too many other things, but not too many books. And you can always give some away.
Perry Brass, author of Carnal Sacraments, The Lover of My Soul, and The Substance of God.