Book Group Expo - PRWeb Press Release Group http://www.rsspad.com/rss2/29711.xml Book Group Expo - Powered by PRWeb and RSSPad en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Book Group Expo Repeats Success - Sold Out Extravaganza Featured 80 Authors including Khaled Hosseini, Anna Quindlen and Roy Blount, Jr. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/06/prweb533997.htm Book Group Expo -- the San Jose-based literary extravaganza started in 2006 -- attracted book groups and book lovers from across the country and featured more than 80 authors and hosted 22 literary salons. Headlining book group expo were New York novelist and columnist Anna Quindlen (Rise and Shine), humorist Roy Blount, Jr. (Long Time Leaving - Dispatches from Up South), Historical Biographer Donna Woolfolk Cross (Pope Joan), Elizabeth Gilbert (eat, pray, love) and Iranian/American author Firoozeh Dumas (Funny In Farsi). (PRWeb Jun 18, 2007)

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]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/06/prweb533997.htm Book Group Expo Returns to San Jose June 2007 - Khaled Hosseini and Anna Quindlen join 50+ Authors for Book Group Expo: Chapter Two! http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/04/prweb519516.htm book group expo, the unique weekend event that's part salon, part marketplace and part marvelous party, is returning to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center on June 8, 9 and June 10, 2007 with a stellar list of authors and Literary Salons for its second year. book group expo will bring together people who love books -- avid readers, acclaimed authors, book club and reading groups, up-and-coming writers, and booksellers. This year's event kicks off with internationally acclaimed author Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner) in a special Friday night Literary Salon where he will read from his much anticipated second novel A Thousand Splendid Suns and then share an evening in conversation with Susanne Pari, author and Program Director for book group expo. (This will be a limited seating event Friday, June 8 at 6:30pm.) (PRWeb Apr 17, 2007)

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]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/04/prweb519516.htm Book Group Expo Triumphs: 92 Authors Created Record Enthusiasm for Books, Amy Tan’s Skit Brought Down the House with Laughter http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/06/prweb402596.htm The first-ever Book Group Expo this past weekend turned San Jose, California a temporary literary Mecca, selling countless books. The two-day affair of readers, writers delivered a packed and hushed Saturday Salon as author Khaled Hosseini read from and answered questions about his celebrated novel The Kite Runner. Another Salon brought down the house with laughter as The Book Group From Hell – a fully improvised skit featuring Amy Tan (in disguise), Kathi Goldmark, Sam Barry, Susanne Pari, Asa DeMatteo, Audry Ferber, and Rabih Alameddine – concluded. (PRWeb Jun 22, 2006)

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