Late yesterday, Winter Institute 2026 ended with a closing keynote featuring Aimee Nezhukumatathil in conversation with Isaac Fitzgerald. Afterward, ABA CEO Allison Hill announced that the next Winter Institute will be held February 10-14, 2027, in Minneapolis, Minn. Our reporting on Winter Institute 2026, including a wrapup on Monday, continues next week.
Booksellers streamed into the Galley Room following its opening on Tuesday morning.
The panel at the Learning from Alternative & Adaptive Models educational session at the Independent Publishers Caucus's Indie Press Summit: (from l.) moderator Andrea Fleck Nisbet, Independent Book Publishers Association; Madeleine McIntosh, Authors Equity; Angela Engel, the Collective Book Studio; and Chris Gruener, Stable Book Co.
At the Vendor Showcase, HarperCollins staff celebrated their American Classics series, launching in May.
The keynote conversation on the state of the industry at the Independent Publishers Caucus's Indie Press Summit featured (from l.) CJ Alberts of Bindery Books and Sunny's bookstore, Yuma, Ariz.; Christie Henry of Princeton University Press; Doug Seibold of Agate Publishing; moderator Patrick Hughes of Pluto Press; Peggy Burns, Drawn & Quarterly; and Andy Hunter of Bookshop.org.
David Goldberg of Pushkin/Steerforth had the most cheerful table in the Meet the Presses section, which included note cards of booksellers' favorite titles.
A bird's-eye view of the Wednesday evening Author Reception.
Karen Tei Yamashita, author of Questions 27 & 28 (Graywolf Press, April 28), with (standing, from l.) Yuka Igarashi of Graywolf; James Crossley, Leviathan Bookstore, St. Louis, Mo.; and Spencer Ruchti, Third Place Books, Seattle, Wash.
Julián Delgado Lopera, author of Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You (coming from Liveright on May 26), with Patrick Flaherty, Community Bookstore & Terrace Books, Brooklyn, N.Y.