Comments on: It’s Fall Conference Time http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=9034 In which children's booksellers ponder all things literary, artistic, and mercantile Sat, 18 May 2013 14:12:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Carol Chittenden http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=9034&cpage=1#comment-61283 Carol Chittenden Fri, 05 Oct 2012 23:48:16 +0000 http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker/?p=9034#comment-61283 Sorry you couldn’t stay for the Awards Luncheon (I know they were expecting you at the prison…) but you missed a fabulous event. I didn’t think anything could be better than Dennis Lehane and Junot Diaz at the Wednesday breakfast, but starting with Brian Lies (who was eloquent even without pictures), running through Margot Livesay and others up through Wally Lamb, it was uplifting. Lamb found a way to tell the story of corresponding with a fan from a mental institution in such a way that the end of the story simply radiated hope.

And I loved having the show end in the middle of a Friday afternoon: made it home by about 5, in daylight!

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