Weather metaphors make it easy to declare this year’s Book Expo America a “hot” show and indeed we had the title of Boris Kachka’s forthcoming August book Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, on our minds many times Thursday, in the aisles and across the evening of parties. But here’s a little secret of trade show reporting: Look back and you’ll see that nearly every show (except for those convened on the eve of lawsuits and world economic crises) is dutifully reported as having an upbeat […]