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Ann Hood: A Family Century
Ann Hood’s bibliography is full of families both fictional and real. Family tragedy was the source of two memoirs, Do Not Go Gentle (2000) and Comfort (2008), and have informed her novels, including The Knitting Circle (2007) and The Red Thread (2010).
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BEA 2014: Dani Pettrey: Promoting Family Adventure
Danni Pettrey grew up canoeing, scuba diving, wind surfing, and sailing.
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BEA 2014: Desiree Zamorano Quells Hispanic Stereotyping
In The Amado Women (Cinco Puntos Press, June), Desiree Zamorano’s first trade-published novel, the strong family ties that bind a mother and her three daughters is the centerpiece of a story that dispels many of the media-fueled stereotyping of Hispanics living in America.
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BEA 2014: Ben Lerner: The Way We Live Now
A first novel with glowing endorsements from such literary lights as Jonathan Franzen, Paul Auster, Geoff Dyer, and John Ashbery—what more could a young writer want?
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BEA 2014: Avery Corman: Dads Vs. Moms
Avery Corman penned Kramer vs. Kramer back in 1977 and had no idea that it would totally change the landscape of divorce in America. He learned later that the book was cited more in divorce proceedings than actual legal precedent.
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BEA 2014: Pat O’Brien: Back After All That
Even though this is the first time Pat O’Brien has attended BEA, he’s not intimidated at the prospect of being surrounded by booksellers he’s never met before to talk about the highs and lows of his 35-year career as a sportscaster for radio and television and a celebrity journalist.
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BEA 2014: Walter Isaacson: Smart Thinkers
Ten years ago, after completing his critically acclaimed Ben Franklin biography, Walter Isaacson was struck by Franklin’s creation of the postal and publishing networks.
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BEA 2014: Jonathan Tropper: Screenwriting Is His New Gig
In his second novel, The Book of Joe (2004), Jonathan Tropper wrote about a novelist who fears the “sophomore slump” after his debut book becomes a huge bestseller and is adapted into a film.Fast forward a decade, and Tropper’s fiction becomes reality.
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BEA 2014: Specializing in Security Studies
Georgetown University Press celebrates its 50th anniversary this year by offering visitors to its booth (1544) two books that reflect the press’s emphasis on what it calls security studies—books on diplomacy, spies, international affairs, intelligence, history, and related topics.
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BEA 2014: A Flamboyant Lawyer
“There has never been a lawyer quite like Fred Levin,” says Josh Young, the New York Times bestselling author of And Give Up Showbiz? How Fred Levin Beat Big Tobacco, Avoided Two Murder Prosecutions, Became a Chief of Ghana, Earned Boxing Manager of the Year, and Transformed American Law (BenBella Books, Sept.).
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BEA 2014: Mighty Bright, Mighty Light
Since introducing its first incandescent book light in 1995, Mighty Bright has been the company that helped save relationships, as its tiny lights made it possible for one person to read while another sleeps.
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BEA 2014: Baen Beams at 30
With integrity and vision as its publishing cornerstones since 1984, Baen Books, the second largest publisher of science fiction and fantasy and #1 in space opera and military science fiction, is pleased to be celebrating its 30th anniversary with special events, author signings, and giveaways at BEA.
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BEA 2014: A High 10 for Trinity
“A small press with a big reach” is how founder and publisher Barbara Ras describes Trinity University Press, the San Antonio, Tex., house that is celebrating its 10th publishing anniversary this year.
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BEA 2014: Smitten with Scarlett
At the tender age of 10, John Wiley Jr. was taken by his mother to see Gone with the Wind.
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BEA 2014: Pamela Paul Does Her Own ‘By the Book’
Every Sunday in the New York Times Book Review, Pamela Paul does a q&a interview with an author in the popular “By the Book” feature.
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BEA 2014: A More Colorful Arcadia
Arcadia Publishing wants booksellers to know that it’s not just their grandparents’ publishing company.
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BEA 2014: A Toast to 50 Years
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Cameron + Company will be pouring martinis today, 3–4 p.m., at its booth (1223A) in the PGW section. The party also celebrates the 50th Anniversary Edition of The Drinking Man’s Diet, originally published in 1964 by the company’s founder, Robert Cameron.
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BEA 2014: Loving Laughter
Even though Best to Laugh (Univ. of Minnesota Press, Sept.) is set in Los Angeles rather than in smalltown Minnesota, like Lorna Landvik’s eight other novels, she says it’s her most autobiographical work yet.
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BEA 2014: A Photographic Musical Tribute
Not every book opens with a page featuring a scrawled handwritten blurb from Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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BEA 2014: UPNE Launches ForeEdge
Taking its name from the printing term, fore edge— which refers to the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved, opposite the spine—a new imprint for national trade titles from University Press of New England is launching.
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