NEW YORK (AP) – BookExpo America, the publishing industry’s annual national convention, could be likened to a small, makeshift city, with thousands of publishers, of infinite variety, assembled under one roof this weekend.

While special pavilions have been created for graphic novels, audio publishers and children’s books, at least one area at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center appears the result of some eccentric zoning.

The booth for Quill Driver Books and its star author, sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, stands across the aisle from GoodHill Press and its founder, and star author, actor Jack Klugman. Klugman’s next-door neighbor is Tsunami Books.

“I sure hope it’s not an omen for me,” Klugman says as he looks over at the Tsunami booth.

Billing itself as “a boutique publisher that will specialize in high concept books that possess strong marketing hooks and movie potential,” Tsunami Books was founded a little more than a year ago, before last December’s disaster that killed thousands in Asia.

Tsunami Books is willing to make noise, with bagpipes, to attract some attention. But the 83-year-old Klugman needs only himself, wearing a cloth cap and a wide smile as he remembers the late Tony Randall, whom Klugman writes about in “Tony and Me.”

Klugman has fans at BookExpo, including the folks at Tsunami Books and fellow neighbor Dr. Ruth, whose latest book is called “Dr. Ruth’s Sex After 50.”

“I told Jack that the biggest fight I had with my late husband was because of him, because he was always watching “The Odd Couple,”‘ says the pint-sized, 77-year-old Westheimer. “I love Jack, but I don’t believe you should watch ‘The Odd Couple’ while you make love. Watch it before, or after.”