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BookExpo 2018: Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
In 'Carmela Full of Wishes' (Putnam, Oct.), their first collaboration since winning both the Newbery Award and Caldecott Honors in 2016, Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson relate the story of a girl from a Mexican-American migrant community.
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BookExpo 2018: Tommy Orange: The Urban Native American
Tommy Orange, a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma, hopes his debut novel, 'There There' (Knopf, June), will alter readers’ perceptions of contemporary Native American life.
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BookExpo 2018: Bryan Reardon: Terror at Penn Station
Following the success of Bryan Reardon’s debut novel, 'Finding Jake' (2015), friends warned him about the sophomore slump. “I didn’t believe any of it,” says 47-year-old Reardon.
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BookExpo 2018: Gary Shteyngart Is Grateful for Greyhound
Gary Shteyngart thanks the Greyhound bus company at the end of his forthcoming novel. The novelist and Columbia University creative writing professor drafted 'Lake Success' (Random House, Sept.) during an epic 2016 bus trip.
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BookExpo 2018: Eloisa James Shows Her Wilde Side
With her latest romance series, the Wildes of Lindow Castle, which she began last fall with 'Wilde in Love,' the romance doyenne and Shakespeare professor Eloisa James explores the roots of celebrity culture and today’s obsession with fame.
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BookExpo 2018: Helen Schulman: A Luddite Takes on Silicon Valley
“I’m a Luddite who wrote about tech. I can’t even turn on my own TV,” jokes Helen Schulman.
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BookExpo 2018: Jarrett J. Krosoczka: Sharing His Life in Words and Pictures
“ ‘It’s like 'Smile' but with heroin.’ That’s the pull quote I’m hoping to get from a review,” jokes Jarrett Krosoczka about his latest project, 'Hey, Kiddo' (Graphix, Oct.).
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BookExpo 2018: Matthew Cordell: A New Caldecott, a New Picture Book
“It’s still so incredibly exciting and oftentimes so unbelievable,” says Matthew Cordell about receiving the 2018 Caldecott Medal for his wordless picture book, 'Wolf in the Snow.'
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BookExpo 2018: Beatriz Williams: Island Intrigue
In Beatriz Williams’s latest solo novel, 'Summer Wives' (Morrow, July), a young woman enters elite 1950s society on a secretive island.
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BookExpo 2018: Roy Scranton: Reflecting on Climate Change
Roy Scranton is perhaps best known for an essay he published in the 'New York Times' in 2013, “Learning to Die in the Anthropocene,” which was later included in an essay collection of the same name.
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BookExpo 2018: Ruth Ware: Psychic Reading
Other than the fortune-teller booths she encountered on bracing walks along the Brighton seafront, British author Ruth Ware knew little about psychic readings when she began work on her latest thriller, 'The Death of Mrs. Westaway.'
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BookExpo 2018: Jeanne McCulloch: Beyond White Privilege
This may be Jeanne McCulloch’s first time at BookExpo as an author, but she’s been a familiar presence since her days as managing editor of the 'Paris Review,' senior editor of 'Tin House' magazine, and founding editorial director of Tin House Books.
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BookExpo 2018: Graphic Authors, in Their Own Words
Yesterday, Calvin Reid, PW senior news editor who oversees comics coverage, moderated a graphic novels buzz panel, “The Graphic Novels You Can’t Miss.” We asked the authors of his favorites—Blue Delliquanti, David Small, Ngozi Ukazu, and Tim Fielder—about their upcoming books.
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BookExpo 2018: Susan Orlean: The Thrill of the Library
In Susan Orlean’s upcoming book, The Library Book (S&S, Oct.), the author tells the story of the 1986 fire that devastated the Los Angeles Public Library, destroying 400,000 books and damaging 700,000 more.
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BookExpo 2018: Paper Magic Brings 'The Nutcracker' to Life
Jumping Jack Press, an imprint of Up with Paper, is taking a fresh approach to the classic holiday tale.
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BookExpo 2018: Team Behind Artemis Fowl Gets Real in 'Illegal'
The creative team behind the graphic novel adaptations of Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series—authors Colfer and Andrew Donkin, and illustrator Giovanni Rigano—make a dramatic departure from fantasy in 'Illegal.'
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BookExpo 2018: Nic Stone: A Second Novel in Three Parts
At last year’s BookExpo, Nic Stone found herself in the spotlight when her editor, Crown’s Phoebe Yeh, chose her debut novel, 'Dear Martin,' as a YA Editors’ Buzz pick.
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BookExpo 2018: James Mustich: Man on a Mission
A series of conversations more than a decade ago between author Jim Mustich, currently v-p of digital product at Barnes and Noble, and his longtime friend Peter Workman (the late founder and publisher of Workman Publishing) started Mustich on a 14-year journey to complete '1,000 Books to Read Before You Die'.
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BookExpo 2018: Robin Green: California Dreaming
Even with all of her accomplishments, Robin Green—who served as executive producer and writer for 'The Sopranos' on HBO—admits to being “very anxious” about the reception of her first book.
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BookExpo 2018: Jill Lepore: Big Truths in the Age of ‘Alternative Facts’
In her latest book, 'These Truths: A History of the United States' (Norton, Sept.), Jill Lepore delivers a comprehensive history of America for general readers.
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