Downtown LA is ground zero of this weekend’s massive BookExpo, but the parties are scattered all the way to Santa Monica and back. So conventioneers had to plot their party treks carefully, as Carolyn Kellogg notes in the LA Times. On Saturday night I had to chuckle at the rare parade of yellow cabs pulling up to the red carpet at the HarperCollins bash at Fox Studios (and later at the Publisher’s Group West party at El Rey Theater). You can take the New Yorkers out of Manhattan, but apparently the taxis come west with them. [Above: HarperCollins rolls out the red carpet at Fox Studios in Century City.]

Above, left: Nightscape over the HarperCollins party; Right: Fresh Air Producer Amy Salit, NEA Literature Director David Kipen, The Big Read’s Molly Thomas-Hicks, and California author Edward Humes at Fox Studios.

Publishers Group West at the El Rey on Wilshire.