#bookcon 2015

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Just a few of my favorite pics from BookCon 2015! I'll write about my experience soon.

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Just a few days ago, we hosted a live comedy event in New York City’s Javitz center at BookCon 2015. It was a terrific show featuring comedians that have written books or had some on the horizon. At the end of the day on Saturday evening a few hundred literary fans gathered in room A123 where Sara Benincasa hosted an evening with comedians. There was some stand-up, there was some Q&A, and there was a lot of laughs. Robert Kelly, John Leguizamo, Judah Friedlander, and Lizz Winstead all entertained an incredibly responsive crowd. If you missed the evening, don’t worry, we taped a podcast with some of the comedians so you’ll hear the action. Also, enjoy some pictures.

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The Laugh Button Live! BookCon 2015 in photos Just a few days ago, we hosted a live comedy event in New York City's Javitz center at BookCon 2015.

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BookCon 2015: The Con Expert Gets Conned and Learns a Lesson in Management

BookCon 2015: The Con Expert Gets Conned and Learns a Lesson in Management

Last Saturday, I headed to the NYC Javits Center to spend a day at BookCon 2015, part of a five day publishing industry extravaganza.  While I consider myself a convention veteran, having attended New York Comic Con for the past four years, New York Anime Festival when that was a thing, and various other smaller gatherings over the years, I was not prepared to feel as out of my element as I did.…

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My television show, which is kind of the love of my life, has been through a lot of changes. It basically started as a show that was written for NBC, NBC passed on it, it got picked up by FOX, we lived there for three years, and then we were cancelled by FOX. Then Hulu picked us up for 26 episodes.

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Mindy Kaling on meeting BJ Novak in LA, despite both being from Boston 

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Bookcon 2015

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Jason Segel Reveals His David Foster Wallace Syllabus at BookCon

"Truly, I didn’t know a book could have that effect on me viscerally."

“What separates an author and mind like David Foster Wallace," said Segel, "is he has the ability to articulate. A lot of people are sitting there feeling it, feeling confused about why they don’t feel satisfied. And David Foster Wallace said, ‘Maybe it’s this. Maybe that’s why.’”