It's All a Blur: A Field Report from Book Expo America 2014

Book Expo America--the annual circus of publishers, booksellers, authors and readers--buzzed through the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City last week, leaving behind the debris of crumpled nametags, torn bookbags, shoe-scuffed and floor-grimed Advance Reading Copies of less-popular Fall titles, and dried pools of blood near booths where publicists were handing out the more-popular ARCs.

At least I think that's what it looks like.  I wouldn't know.  I wasn't there.  (Cue the...