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BEA 2014: Theatre Noir: Tracy Letts
A small newspaper item about a murderous family in Florida sparked Tracy Letts’s distinguished playwriting career when he was only 26.
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BEA 2014: Blue Skies Ahead: M.O. Walsh
Louisiana writer M.O. Walsh (known as Neal) wonders whether the Buzz Books editors were confused or had a head injury when they picked his debut novel (My Sunshine Away, Putnam/Amy Einhorn Books, Jan. 2015) to be a BEA Buzz Book.
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BEA 2014: Man of Many Voices: Eric Bogosian
“Characters are everything,” says New York Obie-winning actor and writer Eric Bogosian.
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BEA 2014: Traveling In Time: Emily St. John Mandel
It all began, Emily St. John Mandel says, when she “thought it would be interesting to write about the life of an actor.
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BEA 2014: Welcome to the Wildlife: Tai Moses
It’s probably safe to assume most of you aren’t expecting to encounter any wildlife on the walk or taxi ride from your hotel to the Javits Center.
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BEA 2014: Sex Academic Style: Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s favorite sex therapist, will be celebrating double on June 4.
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BEA 2014: Coming from a Place of Passion: Jeff Hobbs
Jeff Hobbs went to Yale. So did Robert Peace. Jeff Hobbs went on to write a novel, The Tourists, that became a national bestseller.
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BEA 2014: The Strength of Friendship: Robyn Carr
Robyn Carr, a New York Times bestselling romance novelist, has returned to women’s fiction with Four Friends (Mira, Mar.), the story of 40-something women living in the affluent suburban San Francisco neighborhood of Mill Valley.
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BEA 2014: Uncovering Family Secrets: Garth Stein
The last time Garth Stein was at Book Expo it was 2008, and he admits he was happy to get “spill” from Tom Wolfe’s (I Am Charlotte Simmons) autographing line.
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BEA 2014: A Love Letter to Literature: Azar Nafisi
Readers who were inspired by Azar Nafisi’s paean to literature in Reading Lolita in Tehran—there were enough to keep the book on the New York Times bestseller list for 117 weeks—can rejoice at the appearance of The Republic of Imagination (Viking, Oct.), an homage to American literature and a reflection of what it means to become an American.
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BEA 2014: Garth Nix Returns to Familiar Terrain
It has been more than a decade since Australian author Garth Nix published Abhorsen, the third volume (after Sabriel and Lirael) in his Old Kingdom fantasy series.
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BEA 2014: Thrilling Thriller: Chris Pavone
After finishing his first novel, The Expats, Chris Pavone decided he wanted to place his next thriller, The Accident (Crown, Mar.), in the publishing industry.
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BEA 2014: Calling the Shots: Eula Biss
Five years ago, writer Eula Biss, pregnant for the first time, decided to research the controversial topic of vaccinations.
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BEA 2014: A Family Tragedy Was Her Inspiration: Lisa Howorth
Coming to BEA with her first novel, Flying Shoes (Bloomsbury, June), Square Books co-owner Lisa Howorth is excited to return to the show and see it through an author perspective.
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BEA 2014: The Real MLK: Tavis Smiley
In Tavis Smiley’s personal assessment, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the greatest American this country has ever produced.
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BEA 2014: The Search For Identities in Stories: Michael Coffey
After years of trying to write a memoir, Michael Coffey, the outgoing co-editorial director of Publishers Weekly, realized that fiction was the best way to extend ruminations about what it meant for him to be adopted.
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BEA 2014: Alan Cumming: A Life Revealed
Watching the charismatic actor, Alan Cumming, on the CBS television show, The Good Wife, or PBS’s Masterpiece Mystery, seeing him in films or on the stage, where he’s currently getting raves on Broadway as the emcee in Cabaret, you’d be looking at the picture of success.
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Under the Sicilian Sun: Andrea Camilleri
PW talks with Andrea Camilleri, Italy’s most popular author, 20 years after he introduced his famous hero, Inspector Montalbano, a Sicilian police detective who loves eating, drinking, and wryly observing the world’s injustices.
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A Cowboy in New York: C.J. Box
A man walks into a bar. Cowboy boots. Black cowboy hat. It’s a scene out of a western novel. Only we’re in Greenwich Village at the Cowgirl. And the cowboy is real.
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On the Rez: Jim Northrup
While it seems that everyone else at the Black Bear Casino in rural Carlton County, Minn., has come to play the slots, Jim Northrup and I are meeting there to talk about "Dirty Copper," his forthcoming novel, slated for release in June from Fulcrum Publishing.
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