{"id":617,"date":"2008-06-09T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2008-06-09T04:47:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T12:47:13","slug":"seen-at-bea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/outreach\/community\/seen-at-bea\/","title":{"rendered":"Seen at BEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few sightings from this year&#8217;s book publishing trade convention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dan Halpern of Ecco Press among a group of people hoping to win <em>Sex and the City<\/em> tickets.<\/li>\n<li>Dale Pendell (<em>Walking with Nobby: Conversations with Norman O. Brown<\/em>) strolling between halls at 9:29, headed for his autographing session scheduled for 9:30.<\/li>\n<li>Numerous booksellers strangely still lining up for signed books from Jackie Collins<\/li>\n<li>Desperate Scientology boothers practically kidnapping weary passersby whose attention was flagging<\/li>\n<li>Project Runway&#8217;s Daniel Vosovic in a conservative suit, with sneakers<\/li>\n<li>Leonard Nimoy&#8217;s publisher delivering only 15 books 0f his <em>The Full Body Project <\/em>(&#8220;interpretive nude photographic studies of full-bodied women&#8221;) for his signing (disappointing a long line of fans)<\/li>\n<li><em>Like Water for Chocolate<\/em> translators in a line for a book of sheet music called <em>Mariachi for Gringos, <\/em>then threatening to perform the songs on a ukulele<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-08\/ukulele-rocky.jpg\" alt=\"ukulele rocky\" width=\"165\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Photo of some guy from Hawaii holding a uke<br \/>\nvia <a title=\"pieces and bits\" href=\"http:\/\/annexensen.livejournal.com\/100183.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pieces and Bits<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few sightings from this year&#8217;s book publishing trade convention: Dan Halpern of Ecco Press among a group of people hoping to win Sex and the City tickets&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}