Emerging Leaders NYC will host its third quarterly Emerging Leaders
Night Out on Wednesday, November 29. Inspired by the ABA's Emerging
Leaders project, the gatherings are geared toward young people in
bookstores and publishing houses in the New York City area, as well as
others in the book industry, and hope to provide informal networking
opportunities as well as a sense of community for young professionals
in the city. (Most important, they're a chance for young bookish folks
to have a drink together.) This ELNO will also highlight the
Small Press Book Fair, to be held at the Small Press Center on December
2 and 3.
The Night Out will be held at Under the Volcano (a midtown lounge named
after the classic novel by Malcolm Lowry) at 12 E. 36th St. between
Fifth and Madison, at 7:30 p.m. The last ELNO drew more than 100 young
book industry professionals to a Brooklyn bar to celebrate the Brooklyn
Book Festival. Organizers Steve Colca of Norton, Amanda Lydon of Good
Yarns Bookshop in Hastings-on-Hudson and Jessica Stockton of McNally
Robinson Booksellers hope to attract more frontline booksellers to this
event, and eventually to parlay the Night Out into more focused
meetings on issues faced by booksellers and publishers. Anyone
interested in attending the Winter 2006 ELNO, please RSVP to emergingleadersnyc@gmail.com. For more information about Emerging Leaders NYC, visit its Web site.