BEA Breathless

Thanks to the lovely press office, I'll be covering Book Expo 2006 for Lux Lotus! Some publishers/firms at the very top of my list to check out include Assouline, City Lights, David R. Godine Publisher, Fantagraphics, Graywolf Press, Harvard Business School Press, Henry Holt and Company (already earmarked for fall coverage on Lux Lotus: Caroline Weber's The Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution and Richard Brody's Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard), Les Cahiers du Cinema, Lonely Planet, Moleskine/Kikkerland Design, New York Review of Books | The Little Bookroom, Palm Pictures, Princeton Architectural Press, Rough Guides, Thames & Hudson, Taschen, teNeues, and lots more!

Am I missing anything you're dying to hear about? Please let me know via comments, because it's all for you, doves. Oh yes, and then there are publishers that clients of mine have books coming out from in the next few months that I'll be working on: Carroll & Graf, Coffee House Press, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Random House and Soft Skull. And there are the parties, naturellement. Expect full dish from them, too, and if you're in DC on Friday evening, do swing by The Big Hunt (which, fun fact: my father used to live above in the 1960s when he first arrived in the city).

Also very much looking forward to: lunch with local yoga phenom Kimberly Wilson on Thursday, catching up with Tayari before she leaves for Toronto, The Happy Booker when she's not mobbed by fans, and too many friends and adored acquaintances from near and far at BEA itself and attendant functions to name at the moment, as well as seeing my mother and younger brother while I'm in town (if they're not that busy -- I'll only be around for about 72 hours). Viewing Jim Lambie's "Directions" installation at the Hirshhorn would be stellar, too.

I'll be attending to current projects before I leave tomorrow afternoon, but expect full coverage Thursday night or Friday morning and thereafter. One thing I'm not doing -- actively looking for new business! I find it slightly creepy that public relations firms rent out expensive vendor booths in order to scavenge clients. I plan to steer clear of that scene as always... In fact, I had new business cards designed for BEA. The latest version doesn't include my phone number.

Comments

[ed]

I had new cards printed too. But I suspect that since they include a phone number, I guess part of me welcomes the potential deviance that comes with the territory. Do track me down. Hopefully, we can say hello. Not sure if you have my digits, but Wendi has them.

[tayari]

Lauren, your buisiness cards are the best. I can't wait to see the new ones!

[Elizabeth]

it all sounds so fantastic--- share all the details you can-- some dry wit, dry martinis, and hot trends is just what we need up here in Waterworld--

[lolaisbeauty]

Ooh, Assouline seem to me the coolest publishers. I want to live in their shop in Paris.