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BookCon

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BookCon is an annual fan convention established in 2014 in New York City. [1]

58 relations: Alexandra Bracken, Amy Poehler, Andrew McCarthy, Aziz Ansari, B. J. Novak, Bill Nye, BookExpo America, Books in the United States, Candace Bushnell, Chad Michael Murray, Chicago, Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, Cory Doctorow, Dan Brown, Dora and Friends: Into the City!, Fan convention, James Patterson, Jason Bateman, Javits Center, Jeffrey Tambor, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, John Hodgman, Jonathan Tropper, Julianne Moore, Kate DiCamillo, Kathy Reichs, Khloé Kardashian, Krysten Ritter, Kwame Alexander, Margaret Atwood, Martin Short, Mayim Bialik, McCormick Place, Meg Cabot, Mindy Kaling, New York City, New York Comic Con, Nick Offerman, Nickelodeon, Parks and Recreation, Publishers Weekly, Rainbow Rowell, Reed Exhibitions, RELX Group, Ruth Reichl, San Diego Comic-Con, Shea Serrano, Sherman Alexie, Soman Chainani, ..., Star Wars Celebration, The Daily Show, The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, This Is Where I Leave You, Tina Fey, USA Today, Veronica Roth. Expand index (8 more) »

Alexandra Bracken

Alexandra Bracken (born February 27, 1987) is a New York Times bestselling American author.

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Amy Poehler

Amy Poehler (born September 16, 1971) is an American actress, voice artist, comedian, director, producer, and writer.

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Andrew McCarthy

Andrew Thomas McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American actor, travel writer and television director.

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Aziz Ansari

Aziz Ismail Ansari (born February 23, 1983) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, and comedian.

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B. J. Novak

Benjamin Joseph "B.

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Bill Nye

William Sanford Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science communicator, television presenter, and mechanical engineer.

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BookExpo America

BookExpo America (commonly referred to within the book publishing industry as BEA) is the largest annual book trade fair in the United States.

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Books in the United States

As of 2017, several firms in the United States rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Cengage Learning, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill Education, Quarto, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and Wiley.

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Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell (born December 1, 1958) is an American author, journalist, and television producer.

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Chad Michael Murray

Chad Michael Murray (born August 24, 1981) is an American actor, spokesperson, writer and former fashion model.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo

The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) is a Chicago fan convention dedicated to comics, pop culture, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television.

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Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British on his wife, Alice Taylor's Twitter stream, 12 August 2011 blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.

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Dan Brown

Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller novels, most notably the Robert Langdon stories: Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013) and ''Origin'' (2017).

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Dora and Friends: Into the City!

Dora and Friends: Into the City! (also called Dora and Friends) is an American educational animated television series.

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Fan convention

Fan convention (also known as con or fan meeting), a term that antedates 1942, is an event in which fans of a particular film, television series, comic book, actor, or an entire genre of entertainment, such as science fiction or anime and manga, gather to participate and hold programs and other events, and to meet experts, famous personalities, and each other.

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James Patterson

James Brendan Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an American author and philanthropist.

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Jason Bateman

Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor, director, and producer. He began acting on television in the early 1980s on Little House on the Prairie, Silver Spoons, and The Hogan Family. In the 2000s, he became known for his role of Michael Bluth using deadpan comedy in the sitcom Arrested Development, for which he won a Golden Globe and a Satellite Award. He has also appeared in the films Teen Wolf Too (1987), The Break-Up (2006), Juno (2007), Hancock (2008), Up in the Air, Couples Retreat, Extract (all 2009), The Switch (2010), Horrible Bosses (2011), The Gift (2015), Office Christmas Party, Zootopia (both 2016) and Game Night (2018). Bateman made his directorial debut with the black comedy Bad Words (2013), in which he also starred. He has since directed and starred in The Family Fang (2015) and the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–present).

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Javits Center

The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, commonly known as the Javits Center, is a large convention center located on Eleventh Avenue, between 34th and 40th streets, in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City.

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Jeffrey Tambor

Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944) is an American actor.

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Jodi Picoult

Jodi Lynn Picoult (born May 19, 1966) is an American writer.

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John Grisham

John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8, 1955).

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John Hodgman

John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 3, 1971) is an American author, actor, and humorist.

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Jonathan Tropper

Jonathan Tropper (born February 19, 1970) is an American writer and an adjunct faculty member at Manhattanville College.

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Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is an American actress, prolific in films since the early 1990s.

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Kate DiCamillo

Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo (born March 25, 1964) Includes "Autobiographical Statement" by DiCamillo".

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Kathy Reichs

Kathleen Joan Toelle Reichs (born July 7, 1948) is an American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic.

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Khloé Kardashian

Khloé Alexandra Kardashian (born June 27, 1984) is an American television personality, socialite, model, businesswoman, and entrepreneur.

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Krysten Ritter

Krysten Alyce Ritter (born December 16, 1981) is an American actress and musician.

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Kwame Alexander

Kwame Alexander is an American writer of poetry and children's fiction.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist.

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Martin Short

Martin Hayter Short (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, singer and writer.

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Mayim Bialik

Mayim Chaya Bialik (born December 12, 1975) is an American actress, author, and neuroscientist.

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McCormick Place

McCormick Place is the largest convention center in North America.

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Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot (born Meggin Patricia Cabot; February 1, 1967) is an American author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pen names, but now writes exclusively under her real name.

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Mindy Kaling

Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), Additional archive on June 25, 2015.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Comic Con

The New York Comic Con is an annual New York City fan convention dedicated to comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television.

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Nick Offerman

Nicholas Offerman (born June 26, 1970) is an American actor, writer, comedian, and woodworker who is known for his role as Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, for which he received the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy, as well as his role in The Founder, in which he portrays Dick McDonald, one of the brothers who developed the fast food chain McDonald's.

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Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1, 1977 as the first cable channel for children.

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Parks and Recreation

Parks and Recreation is an American political satire television sitcom created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell (born February 24, 1973) is an American author of young adult and adult contemporary novels.

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Reed Exhibitions

Reed Exhibitions is an event organiser, with a portfolio of approximately 500 events in 40 countries including UK, Austria, USA, France, Germany, Brazil, Russia, India, China, Australia and the Middle East.

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RELX Group

RELX Group (pronounced "Rel-ex") is a British multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London.

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Ruth Reichl

Ruth Reichl (pronounced RYE-shil) is an American chef, food writer, co-producer of PBS's Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS's Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth, and the last editor-in-chief of the now shuttered Gourmet magazine.

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San Diego Comic-Con

San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California, United States.

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Shea Serrano

Shea Serrano is a Mexican-American author, journalist, and former teacher.

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Sherman Alexie

Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker.

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Soman Chainani

Soman Chainani is an American writer and filmmaker, known for his children's book series The School for Good and Evil.

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Star Wars Celebration

Star Wars Celebration is a fan gathering to celebrate the Star Wars franchise.

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The Daily Show

The Daily Show is an American late-night talk and news satire television program.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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This Is Where I Leave You

This Is Where I Leave You is a 2014 American comedy-drama film directed by Shawn Levy.

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Tina Fey

Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer and playwright.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Veronica Roth

Veronica Anne Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her debut New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy, consisting of Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant; and Four: A Divergent Collection.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BookCon

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