Style Blog: The Romance Novel Convention in Harper's

Just in time for Valentine's Day, the February issue of Harper's features an essay about the hopeful fringe of the romance-novel industry. In "Bad Romance: One Genre and a Billion Happy Endings," Jesse Barron describes attending the first annual Romance Novel Convention in Las Vegas -- the perfect city for these dream-peddlers and hopeful scribblers. The convention is a five-day smattering of trite classes, cheesy entertainment and a costume ball -- all designed to prey on the aspirations of peo...