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Back to the Future: Jules Feiffer
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer didn’t feel confident enough to publish his first original graphic novel until he was in his 80s (he’s now 85). Over the decades, he’s worked in a staggering number of formats but until 'Kill My Mother' (Liveright) he hadn’t fully embraced the graphic novel format.
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Clash of the Titans... of Crime: Lorenzo Carcaterra
Ever since his 1993 memoir, "A Safe Place: The True Story of a Father, a Son, a Murder," Lorenzo Carcaterra has dealt with the dark side of life.
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All Men are Created Equal: Danielle Allen
“For me one of the Declaration’s great lessons and spiritual qualities is this amazing conviction it has in the intellectual capacity of ordinary human beings,” says Danielle Allen, professor of social science at Princeton University.
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Elephants in the Mist: Jodi Picoult
Bestselling author Jodi Picoult has written 21 novels and been translated into 34 languages in 35 countries. Her latest, she says, brings things full circle.
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Reagan Rising: Rick Perlstein
Perlstein’s 'The Invisible Bridge' is a sharp reminder of how deeply unsettling the Watergate era was for many Americans
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Review: Robert Galbraith's 'The Silkworm'
PW's review of the new novel by Galbraith, better known as J.K. Rowling. We call the book "a classic fair-play whodunit."
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First Fiction Summer 2014: Lauren Owen: Vampires, in the Victorian Tradition
How many 28-year-old aspiring novelists dream of getting their first book giddily blurbed by Hilary Mantel, Kate Atkinson, and Tana French?
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First Fiction Summer 2014: Courtney Maum: Steep for 10 Years, Then Rewrite
Courtney Maum was in her early 20s and living in Paris when she wrote the first draft of her debut novel, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, which will be released by Touchstone (Simon & Schuster) on June 10.
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First Fiction Summer 2014: Boris Fishman: An Enterprising Mind
“My novel has its origins the 1990s, when my family had just emigrated from the former Soviet Union.
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First Fiction Summer 2014: Josh Malerman: Rock Star, Horror Writer
If Josh Malerman’s name sounds familiar, it’s because you’ve probably already heard it. The frontman for Detroit-based indie-rock band the High Strung has appeared on stages across the country and been featured on This American Life.
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First Fiction Summer 2014: Laura McBride: A Story You’ve Never Heard Before
When Stephanie Cabot (Gernert Company) sent Laura McBride’s first novel, We Are Called to Rise, to Trish Todd, v-p and executive editor at Simon & Schuster, Todd immediately knew she was in the presence of a first-rate writer.
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First Fiction Summer 2014: Edan Lepucki: A Quiet Apocalypse
Edan Lepucki started California, which sold to Little, Brown at auction and has a July 8 pub date, in 2009, during a 12-day residency at Ucross in rural Wyoming.
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First Fiction Summer 2014: Anticipated Debuts
This week, we’re casting a spotlight on seven fiction debuts by authors who are also professors, mothers, corporate namers, freelancers, and rock stars.
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The Power of Place: Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman's new book is one of emerging from the grief of becoming a widower. It's also a paean to Mexico City.
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BEA 2014: Kathy Reichs: A Villain, a Mother, and Temperance Brennan
Temperance Brennan is back in Kathy Reichs’s highly anticipated 17th novel, Bones Never Lie, coming from Bantam in September.
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BEA 2014: Jodi Picoult: Mothers, Daughters, and Grief Among Elephants
The wildly popular and bestselling author Jodi Picoult has written more than 20 novels including The Storyteller, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister’s Keeper.
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BEA 2014: Ruth Reichl: A Delicious Debut into Fiction
Ruth Reichl joins the wildly popular novelists Jodi Picoult and Kathy Reichs on a panel about bestsellers.
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BEA 2014: Jennifer Holm: Believe in the Possible
At 10 a.m. today, when Newbery Honors recipient Jennifer L. Holm signs The Fourteenth Goldfish, due out in August, at the Random House booth, it marks over a decade since Holm has been to the show. “The last time I was at BEA was in 2001. Back then, I was a New Yorker and a newlywed with my second book, Boston Jane: An Adventure,” she says. “Now I greet the BEA floor 13 years later as a Californian and an exhausted mother of two.”
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BEA 2014: David Mitchell: Six Worlds, One New Novel
This coming August marks 10 years since David Mitchell’s groundbreaking novel, Cloud Atlas, was published to great acclaim.
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BEA 2014: Cary Elwes Spills About ‘The Princess Bride’
Writing his behind-the-scenes As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride, actor Cary Elwes says, has been a “wonderful trip down memory lane.”