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...publishing industry is gearing up for its big fall season. BookExpo America (BEA) was held ten days ago at New York's Javits Center; catalogs, galleys and press kits are flooding in. Over the next few weeks, we'll alert you to some of the big fall titles. Here are some of the standouts from BookExpo...
...novel stood out at BEA this year like "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen did last year. But Farrar, Straus, Franzen's publisher, is hoping that it has another winner in "Middlesex" (September), a novel by "Virgin Suicides" author Jeffrey Eugenides. Will lightening strike twice...
...Democratic ticket, complete with their wives, will be back at a bookstore near you sometime soon. A beardless Al Gore, with Tipper at his side, regaled booksellers at BEA with jokes about his reduced station in life. The Gores were talking up their two new books, "Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family" (Holt; November 12) and "The Spirit of Family" (Holt; November 12). In January, losing veep candidate Joseph Lieberman and wife Hadassah will share their observations about the 2000 campaign in "An Amazing Journey...
...Conroy, author of "The Great Santini," "Prince of Tides," "The Lords of Discipline," and the like, quipped to a BEA crowd that while last year's big book was "The Corrections," this year's will be "The Erections," featuring "the simple love story between Jonathan Franzen and Oprah Winfrey...
...Briefly back home, Peola gives another definition of passing when she warns her mother, "Even if you pass me on the street, you'll have to pass me by." She looks at Colbert and says, "Oh, I know it's terribly mean, Miss Bea. But you don't know what it's like to look white and be black. You don't know. I can't go on this way any longer!"(Washington's plangent contralto makes this line a heartbreaker.) Her exit line: "I know it's asking a lot. But I've got to live my own life...