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BookExpo 2017: Making Life Better Through Industry: Brendan Mathews
“I wanted to write a richly populated novel,” Brendan Mathews says of his debut, "The World of Tomorrow" (Little, Brown, Sept.), which includes many characters: three Irish brothers, a Bronx politician, an heiress, a mob boss, and a young Jewish photographer facing deportation to Czechoslovakia.
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BookExpo 2017: Stop Harassment Now: Gretchen Carlson
“I decided early on that I was not going to sit down and shut up,” says former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson.
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BookExpo 2017: A Secret Life: Liz Nugent
“Every person has a secret interior life that’s unknowable to their spouse, parents, siblings, friends,” says Liz Nugent.
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BookExpo 2017: Neil Olson: From Both Sides Now
It all started where most literary deals are made: lunch.
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BookExpo 2017: J.T. Ellison Changes It Up
After nearly two decades of success, J.T. Ellison, the New York Times bestselling author of more than 15 books and coauthor of the popular A Brit in the FBI series with Catherine Coulter, decided she needed a change of scenery.
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BookExpo 2017: Harlequin Branches Out with New Imprints
If you think Harlequin publishes only mass market romance novels, it’s time to get in your DeLorean and flash forward. With three new imprints—Graydon House Books, Hanover Square Press, and Park Row Books—it now has seven different lines.
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BookExpo 2017: Graphic Novels Heat Up at Javits
A wide variety of comics artists with new and debut graphic novels will be featured on several panels here.
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BookExpo 2017: Barking up the Right Tree: Marc Goldberg
It used to be that dogs were treated like, well, dogs.
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BookExpo 2017: Roz Chast Loves the Grid
When Roz Chast’s daughter was about to leave the bucolic Connecticut suburb where she was raised to attend college in New York City, she asked her mother: “What’s a block?”
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BookExpo 2017: Paying Tribute to Rock and Roll—and Ghana: Kwame Alexander
“Despite our differences and our individual struggles and successes in life, music is the universal language,” says Kwame Alexander.
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BookExpo 2017: Kristin Cashore Takes a Break
“I wanted a really different kind of challenge,” says Kristin Cashore, about writing her most recent book.
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BookExpo 2017: Seeing the World Through a Child’s Eyes: Ainsley Earhardt
Ainsley Earhardt, cohost of TV’s "Fox & Friends," was pregnant with her daughter when she wrote"Take Heart, My Child," a picture book reflecting a mother’s hopes and dreams at the beginning of her child’s life.
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BookExpo 2017: Welcoming New Babies: Mo Willems
Mo Willems, author-illustrator of the Elephant & Piggie and Pigeon series, wants to make babies feel welcome in his new picture book, "Welcome: A Mo Willems Guide for New Arrivals."
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Jack Gantos Shares Life Stories and Tips for Young Writers
The Newbery Medalist offers aspiring authors a guide to establishing good writing habits.
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BookExpo 2017: The Blaguard Lives On... for Now: Malachy McCourt
Ask raconteur Malachy McCourt how he is, and he responds simply, “I’m staying above ground.”
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BookExpo 2017: A 360-Degree Dive into Dunkirk: Michael Korda
After he finished writing "Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee," prolific author Michael Korda, who spent decades as the distinguished editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, immediately began contemplating his next immersive book project.
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BookExpo 2017: Stephen King & Owen King Do Breakfast, Plus a Special Excerpt
For the first time, Stephen King will be a featured speaker at BookExpo. Together with his son Owen King, with whom he coauthored his latest novel, "Sleeping Beauties" (Scribner, Sept.), King will appear in a “Prologue” to today’s Adult Book and Author Breakfast.
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BookExpo 2017: A Space Hero: Scott Kelly
Fittingly, retired astronaut Scott Kelly’s memoir, "Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discvery" (Knopf, Oct.), written with Margaret Lazarus Dean, began with another book: Tom Wolfe’s classic saga of the early days of America’s space program, "The Right Stuff."