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BookExpo 2017: New York Rights Fair Gets Send-Off
Organizers of the New York Rights Fair held a party last night to introduce the event to the American publishing community.
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BookExpo 2017: Audiobooks Evolve in the Age of Podcasts
“There’s a renaissance for spoken-word content and our media diet is expanding, but as the landscape becomes more saturated, audiobooks face greater and greater discoverability challenges,” said Tom Webster, v-p, strategy and marketing, at Edison Research.
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Amazon Will Be the Fifth Largest Bookstore Chain
A combination of bookstore attrition and its own startup efforts will make Amazon Books the fifth largest general bookstore chain in the U.S. based on the number of outlets.
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BookExpo 2017: Pete Souza
Pete Souza, chief official White House photographer during the Obama presidency, culled more than 300 images from the nearly two million that he took of President Obama alone.
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BookExpo 2017: Fox Chapel Publishing Celebrates Its Silver Anniversary
Twenty-five years ago, Alan Giagnocavo founded Fox Chapel Publishing at his kitchen table, focusing on books about the arts of woodcarving and creating with a scroll saw.
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BookExpo 2017: Why Reality Broke? Brooke Gladstone
When Brooke Gladstone, the cohost (with Bob Garfield) of the popular podcast "On the Media," began working on her new book, "The Trouble with Reality" (Workman), her brief was to “provide a consolation” to readers troubled by the recent presidential election.
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BookExpo 2017: Would-be Army Ranger Gone Wrong: Ben Blum
The furthest thing from Ben Blum’s mind in August 2006 was that his 19-year-old cousin Alex Blum, whom Ben was very close to and admired for his loyalty, his intelligence, and respectful nature, would become an armed bank robber in Tacoma, Wash.
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BookExpo 2017: Nicole Krauss Tackles a New Form
“When I write,” says Nicole Krauss, “I’m simply trying to make something I hope at some point will be whole enough to meet readers.”
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BookExpo 2017: Questioning Nigerian Traditions: Ayobami Adebayo
“Nigerian society has changed quite a bit [over the past 30 years], and more and more people are having conversations about being a woman in Nigeria,” says Ayobami Adebayo, who explores the subject in her debut novel, "Stay with Me" (Knopf, Aug.).
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BookExpo 2017: TCG Books takes a Bow
Theatre Communications Group, in New York, is dedicated to strengthening and nurturing professional nonprofit theater in the U.S.
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BookExpo 2017: A Real Steal: Emily Culliton
Debut novelist Emily Culliton originally planned to write a book about a disaffected young adult whose mother wasn’t in her life.
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BookExpo 2017: List Maker: Pamela Paul
Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review and author of five books, is quick to admit she’s a list maker.
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BookExpo 2017: ‘Empire’ Writer Returns to Her Texas Roots: Attica Locke
Attica Locke—writer and producer of the Fox hit show "Empire"—is also the author of four acclaimed novels.
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BookExpo 2017: A Publisher Turns Pseudonymous Author: A.J. Finn
There are a number of surprising twists to first-time novelist A.J. Finn’s psychological thriller, "The Woman in the Window" (Morrow, Jan. 2018), which chronicles several weeks in the life of a female psychologist isolated in a Manhattan townhouse with a serious case of agoraphobia.
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BookExpo 2017: Living with Uncertainty: Chloe Benjamin
For her sophomore effort, Chloe Benjamin ("The Anatomy of Dreams," 2014) ponders how knowing when you will die would alter the way you live.
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BookExpo 2017: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cuba: Katherine Paterson
A funny thing happened on Katherine Paterson’s way to a speaking engagement in Cuba in 2015: she found inspiration for a new historical novel.
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BookExpo 2017: Shaping an Authentic Portrait of Cuba: Margarita Engle and Mike Curato
Margarita Engle, the Cuban-American author of many books in verse, including the Newbery Honor–winning "The Surrender Tree" and other books inspired by historical figures, takes a different tack in "All the Way to Havana."
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Katherine Applegate: Novel Offers Wishes for a Neighborhood—and the World
Newbery medalist Katherine Applegate’s dedication to "Wishtree" (Feiwel & Friends, Sept.) captures the essence of her new middle grade novel: “For newcomers and for welcomers.”
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BookExpo 2017: Ready, Set, Buzz: YA Editors Are Good to Go
Learn what’s hot in YA at the Young Adult Editors’ Buzz Panel this morning, when five editors wax enthusiastic about upcoming debuts of which they are especially passionate.
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Transporting the Brontës to a Mythical World: Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne Valente, author of the bestselling Fairyland series ("The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making" and its sequels), features one of literature’s most famous families—the Brontës—in her new middle grade fantasy.