New Voices New Rooms, taking place in Arlington, Va., this week, had a packed second day of programming that included Rep Picks, Bookseller-to-Bookseller Genre Buzz, and multiple well-attended education sessions. As part of NAIBA and SIBA's effort to foster interaction, all sessions took place in the exhibition hall, allowing plenty of opportunity to browse publisher tables in between. In the evening, the reception also had a twist: the featured guests were editors rather than authors, giving booksellers a chance to meet the people responsible for some of their favorite books, and enjoy more mixing and mingling.
At the Editor Buzz reception: (from l.) Ibrahim Ahmad, executive editor, Viking; Jake Cumsky-Whitlock from Solid State Books in Washington, D.C.; Jordan Pavlin, Knopf editor-in-chief; and Andy Ward, publisher, Random House.
Suzanne Lucey of Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, N.C., with Martin Clark, author of The Plinko Bounce, out next month from Rare Bird Books.
K. Kerimian, Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, N.Y., gathered queer books for the Nonbinarian Book Bike, a queer- and trans-led mobile initiative that distributes free books.
Bonding over books: (from l.) Kelly Justice and Kate Towery, Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, Va.; Tim O'Connell, v-p/editorial director, Simon & Schuster; and Judith Lafitte, Octavia Books, New Orleans, La.