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BookExpo 2017: Writing What She Doesn’t Know: Jennifer Egan
Listening to Jennifer Egan talk about writing fiction brings to mind the famous quote from E.L. Doctorow: “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
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BookExpo 2017: Ed Asner, Still Grumpy After All These Years
Ed Asner, the Emmy Award–winning actor and activist, aka Lou Grant, reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who think that they and only they know how to interpret it.
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BookExpo 2017: A Comedian Makes a Mid-Career Switch: Al Franken
The last time Al Franken appeared at BookExpo was in 2003.
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BookExpo 2017: Setting Her Characters Ablaze: Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng’s second novel starts with an actual blaze, but it is an emotional inferno that ultimately consumes the characters in "Little Fires Everywhere" (Penguin, Sept.).
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BookExpo 2017: Big New Kids' and YA Books
Children’s book publishers were highlighting titles for all ages and interests as BookExpo got underway on Thursday.
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BookExpo 2017: The Big Books of the Show
Debuts and the latest releases from a number of heavy hitters—including John Grisham, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Jennifer Egan—were among the books being touted as the "big ones" of this year's BookExpo.
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BookExpo 2017: YA Editors Emphasize the Transformative Magic of Books
Five young adult book editors emphasized that the magic of books can change young people’s lives, even save the world, during this year’s YA Editor's Buzz panel.
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BookExpo 2017: Bawdy Jokes, Good Advice at Adult Author Breakfast
Comedian Whitney Cummings hosted novelists Stephen King and his son Owen, Claire Messud, Jesmyn Ward, astronaut Scott Kelly, and former White House photographer Pete Souza at the BookExpo Adult Author's Breakfast.
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BookExpo 2017: PEN America Named BookExpo Ambassador Award Winner
BookExpo will honor PEN America with its seventh annual Industry Ambassador Award, which recognizes major innovators and creative leaders that make the book industry better, on June 1.
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Bonnier to Launch Middle Grade Imprint, Yellow Jacket, in 2018
Yellow Jacket, a middle-grade imprint slated to launch in summer 2018, will be helmed by current Little Bee and Sizzle Press publisher Sonali Fry, and will publish novels across genres.
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BookExpo 2017: An Angle on Adolescent Angst: Claire Messud
The trauma of being a teen was brought home to Claire Messud when her teenaged daughter’s best friend summarily dumped her during the first week of high school.
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BookExpo 2017: Making the Case for Casemate
In 1996, David Farnsworth came to the U.S. from the U.K. to head the sales department of the family-owned Combined Publishing.
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BookExpo 2017: Robert Kiyosaki Is Even Richer 20 Years Later
At age nine, after being taught how to play Monopoly, Robert Kiyosaki knew he was going to be wealthy.
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BookExpo 2017: The Joint Is Jumping at Waldorf Publishing
Waldorf Publishing refuses to accept such terms as “boutique” or “small press” as descriptive nomenclature for the company.
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BookExpo 2017: Seventh Street Books Marks Fifth Anniversary
It’s only been five years since the start of Seventh Street Books—the mystery, thriller, and crime fiction imprint of Prometheus Books—but there’s reason to celebrate, and it’s happening in the Prometheus Books booth (2706).
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BookExpo 2017: A Web-Savvier Edition of the ‘Chicago Manual of Style’
Good-bye, ibid.; hello, tweet. “3-D” or “3D”? “Fewer” or “less”? “Hi Mom” or “Hi, Mom”? If you’re a writer, editor, or simply an unreconstructed grammar nerd, there’s a good chance that at some point you’ve sought an answer to such questions in The Chicago Manual of Style.
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BookExpo 2017: From Runway to Roux with Zac Posen
It’s hard to believe that fashion designer Zac Posen, a judge on "Project Runway" and Brooks Brothers creative director, has the time to whip up panko-crusted soft-shell crab and orange blossom bundt cake in his New York apartment, but he does.
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BookExpo 2017: Coming of Age in Mississippi: Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward is a BookExpo veteran, who has attended the show multiple times, in connection with her bestselling titles "Salvage the Bones" (Bloomsbury), which won the 2011 National Book Award, and her memoir,"Men We Reaped" (Bloomsbury, 2013).
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BookExpo 2017: Official BookExpo Exhibitor Addendum