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BookExpo 2017: Lemony Snicket Creator Gets Steamy: Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler, the novelist who wrote 13 A Series of Unfortunate Events books under the pen name of Lemony Snicket, found inspiration for his new novel by eavesdropping on teenagers.
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BookExpo 2017: Neil Patrick Harris, Lemony Snicket, and Chris Harris Create Magic
In an event billed as “A Fortunate Stage Talk,” actor Neil Patrick Harris, of "Doogie Howser" and "How I Met Your Mother" fame, who currently stars as Count Olaf in the TV adaptation of "A Series of Unfortunate Events," will reunite with Chris Harris (no relation), who was the executive producer of "How I Met Your Mother," and "A Series of Unfortunate Events" author Lemony Snicket.
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BookExpo 2017: Sourcebooks Celebrates a Decade of Jabberwocky
In 2006, Sourcebooks took an auspicious leap into the children’s arena with "Poetry Speaks to Children," edited by Elise Paschen, illus. by Wendy Rasmussen.
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BookExpo 2017: Charlesbridge Debuts Teen Imprint
For the first time since its founding three decades ago, Charlesbridge Publishing in Watertown, Mass., is expanding into YA.
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BookExpo 2017: Chronicle Books Is Golden
Who would think that a publishing company founded during San Francisco’s “Summer of Love” would be thriving 50 years later, and still based on the West Coast, adhering to its motto: “see things differently”?
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BookExpo 2017: More, More, More at the APA Author Tea
The chair of the 17th annual APA’s Author Tea, hosted by BookExpo, is actor and author Alan Alda (see sidebar below), who is joined by authors James Patterson, Marissa Meyer, and Daniel José Older.
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BookExpo 2017: Alan Alda Practicing What He Preaches
Emmy Award–winning actor and writer, acclaimed director, bestselling author, university professor, and today host of the APA’s 17th annual Author Tea, Alan Alda took a few minutes to talk to PW about his latest book, "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?"
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BookExpo 2017: Chasing Bigfoot: Jennifer Weiner
Bestselling adult author Jennifer Weiner made her children’s book debut last year with "The Littlest Bigfoot," the first book in a middle grade trilogy of the same name.
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BookExpo 2017: Books Saved Her Life: Marieke Nijkamp
Marieke Nijkamp credits books with shaping her worldview, how she relates to herself, and even saving her life.
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BookExpo 2017: Rethinking Royal Garb: Savannah Guthrie & Allison Oppenheim
Thanks to a fateful dinner, NBC’s "Today" show cohost Savannah Guthrie and Allison Oppenheim, a clinical psychologist who leads parent education classes, will make their picture book debut in September with"Princesses Wear Pants" (Abrams), illus. by Eva Byrne.
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BookExpo 2017: Isla Fisher Steps onto a New Stage
Over 25 years, actress and comedian Isla Fisher has played a variety of film and television characters, but her hands-on favorite role has always been that of mother to her three children with fellow comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
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No More Book Deserts: Jason Reynolds
With three novels coming out this fall, you might never guess that Jason Reynolds didn’t like to read books in elementary school, or even high school.
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BookExpo 2017: The Little Press on the Prairie Returns to New York City
The South Dakota Historical Society Press is hoping that lightning will strike twice at BookExpo: this year, the small press is promoting "Pioneer Girl Perpectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder," edited by Nancy Tystad Koupal, 150 years after Wilder’s birth on February 7, 1867.
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BookExpo 2017: A Pessimist’s Take on Happiness: Eva Woods
Attending BookExpo with her new book, "Something Like Happy" (Graydon House, Sept.), is a dream come true for Eva Woods.
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BookExpo 2017: On the Essentials of Suspense: Hallie Ephron
Hallie Ephron has lost count of the number of times well-intentioned people have told her a story they thought she could use as writing fodder.
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BookExpo 2017: Life and Death, and the 1968 Election: Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O’Donnell, host of "The Last Word" on MSNBC, has some advice for booksellers who have been in stress over the 2016 election results: chill out.
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BookExpo 2017: First Daughters in a Sister Act: Jenna Hager and Barbara Bush
In their first book together, "Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life," twin sisters and former first daughters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush write about their lives, including their White House years.
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BookExpo 2017: An Affair with Cuba: Nelson DeMille
In the early 1960s, a family of Cuban refugees escaped to suburban New York, where they found a home in the middle-class Long Island neighborhood where author Nelson DeMille grew up.