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BEA 2016: Maria Semple: Writing to Escape Pain
Although Maria Semple has written two previous novels—most recently the bestselling "Where’d You Go, Bernadette," with a film adaptation in the works—the one-time TV writer ("Mad About You," "Arrested Development") says writing them never gets easier.
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BEA 2016: Sebastian Junger: Tribal Yearning
For more than 30 years, bestselling author Sebastian Junger has been haunted by something told to him by a close friend who is half Lakota, half Apache.
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BEA 2016: Louise Penny: Penny Wonderful
You wouldn’t expect bestselling, award-winning author Louise Penny to be, in her words, “wracked with fear” each time she sends a draft out to be read.
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BEA 2016: Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad As More Than Metaphor
Although Colson Whitehead says that he wrote The Underground Railroad (Doubleday, Sept.) “pretty quickly” last year, this novel has been 15 years in the making.
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BEA 2016: Faith Salie: Looking for Validation
Faith Salie says she is both “deeply honored and deeply apologetic” at being chosen as master of ceremonies for today’s Adult Book & Author Breakfast: “I looked up the names of hosts from the last few years, and I hope they won’t be sorry they picked me.”
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BEA 2016: Robert Olen Butler: Veteran Writer
The striking similarities between Pulitzer Prize–winner Robert Olen Butler and the narrator in his latest novel, "Perfume River," leads readers to wonder if the book is in some way autobiographical.
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BEA 2016: Belle Boggs Looks at Infertility from All Sides
Up until now, Belle Boggs has been known for her fiction; in 2010, Mattaponi Queen was selected as a Kirkus top fiction debut, shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, and longlisted for the Story Prize.
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BEA 2016: Truth: They’re a Voracious Audience
News flash: a recent study by the Pew Research Center shows that African-American women represent the highest percentage of readers in the country.
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BEA 2016: Cornell Lab Publishing Group Takes Flight
The recently launched Cornell Lab Publishing Group was founded to commemorate the Cornell’s Lab’s 100-year anniversary in 2015.
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BEA 2016: A Mother’s Harrowing Odyssey
In 2010, Samieh Hezari made a terrible mistake, for which she paid dearly.
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BEA 2016: Getting Lit
Canadian publisher Coach House Books is marking its 51st anniversary with its second presentation in as many years at the Uptown Stage (today, 1:45 p.m.) for the BEA Selects Literary Fiction program.
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BEA 2016: What Chicago Blues Once Were
In the late 1970s, at age 23, British college student Alan Harper traveled across the Atlantic to Chicago, where he had no job, no friends, and no family.
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BEA 2016: Quarto’s Four Decades of Enthusiasm, and Counting
Quarto Books, the company that took its name from having four founding partners, will be celebrating its four decades in publishing today at BEA with the appearance of its Bookmobile, QuartoKnows, at the show for the first time right in its booth (2300).
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BEA 2016: Mass Media Is Dead. Long Live Micromedia
Remember the days when getting an author in the New York Times, on the Today show, Oprah, or, for us old-timers, Carson practically guaranteed a spot on the bestseller list?
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BEA 2016: Discovering Italian Writers
Despite the popularity of bestselling Italian author Elena Ferrante, who was recently named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, the flow of translations between the U.S. and Italy continues to be one-sided.
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BEA 2016: Take a Steampunk Selfie and Celebrate Women
What do romance, history, and children’s books have in common?
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BEA 2016: The Okee Dokee Brothers Celebrate America’s Great Outdoors
While the late Prince represents the Minneapolis sound to millions of adults, two other Twin Cities musicians, the Okee Dokee Brothers, represent its flip side: a more pastoral and family-friendly Minneapolis sound.
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BEA 2016: Catch the Buzz from YA Editors
A select handful of children’s book editors have arrived at BEA eager to spread word of forthcoming first novels for which they have have high expectations.
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BEA 2016: Melissa de la Cruz: A Banner Year
Since her Blue Bloods series with Disney-Hyperion debuted a decade ago, Melissa de la Cruz has published a steady stream of bestselling novels and become a luminary in the YA universe.
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BEA 2016: Brian Welch: Returning to Music & Books
Brian “Head” Welch hadn’t planned to write a second book after Save Me from Myself came out in 2008 (HarperOne). Folks already knew about his drug addiction, finding Jesus, and quitting his band, Korn.
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