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Convention is a category for books that center on organized gatherings—fan conventions, trade shows, academic conferences, festivals, and political party conventions—and the cultures, logistics, and human dramas that unfold around them. It includes nonfiction such as how-to guides for planning events, insider memoirs, journalistic investigations, cultural histories, and sociological studies of communities that convene. It also encompasses fiction—romance, mystery, thriller, satire—set at or driven by the intensity of a convention’s compressed timelines, high stakes, and networking rituals. Common themes include identity and belonging, spectacle and performance, power and negotiation, and the collision of public personas with private lives. In short, “Convention” gathers stories and studies of what happens when people meet en masse with purpose.

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