Dupont Circle's Big Hunt Club... for The Happy Booker and the LitBlog Coop's Book Expo America celebration.... Roughly in order of their appearance to moi: Tim Wendel, Leslie Pietryk, William O'Sullivan, Liz Poliner, Wendi Kaufman (The Happy Booker), publicist Lauren Cerand looking comfy on the sofa, next to red-haired Carolyn Kellogg (Pinky's Paperhaus podcast), Bookdwarf and Matthew Cheney (Mumpsimus) and Bud Parr (Chekhov's Mistress) and Lizzie Skurnick (Old Hag) and C. Max Magee (The Millions) and Mark Sarvas (Elegant Variation). I'm one of the newer bloggers. Anyone who began blogging back in 2003 is too cool for school. The name of what's going on here is "disintermediation," and it sure is interesting. I predict that next year's bash will be twice the size, and with name tags. (For my other posts on "Gone to the Litblogs" click here, here, and here.)
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Gone to the Litblogs: Madam Mayo, Who (Alas) Did Not Get Carded, Ventured All The Way to the Back and Down into the Cellar of...
Dupont Circle's Big Hunt Club... for The Happy Booker and the LitBlog Coop's Book Expo America celebration.... Roughly in order of their appearance to moi: Tim Wendel, Leslie Pietryk, William O'Sullivan, Liz Poliner, Wendi Kaufman (The Happy Booker), publicist Lauren Cerand looking comfy on the sofa, next to red-haired Carolyn Kellogg (Pinky's Paperhaus podcast), Bookdwarf and Matthew Cheney (Mumpsimus) and Bud Parr (Chekhov's Mistress) and Lizzie Skurnick (Old Hag) and C. Max Magee (The Millions) and Mark Sarvas (Elegant Variation). I'm one of the newer bloggers. Anyone who began blogging back in 2003 is too cool for school. The name of what's going on here is "disintermediation," and it sure is interesting. I predict that next year's bash will be twice the size, and with name tags. (For my other posts on "Gone to the Litblogs" click here, here, and here.)
