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BEA 2014: Editors Busy Buzzing
BEA attendees faithfully—and eagerly—flock to two panels that have become popular staples of the show’s programming.
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BEA 2014: A Quartet of Anniversaries
As at shows past, BEA 2014 is an occasion for children’s publishers’ to mark memorable milestones.
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BEA 2014: Browsing the Booths, Chapter 1
Booksellers on the lookout for recent and forthcoming offerings from children’s publishers will catch an eyeful as they roam the aisles.
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BEA 2014: Her Ideal Reader: PW Talks With Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty is the Australian author of five internationally bestselling novels, including The Husband’s Secret.
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BEA 2014: Hollywood Comes to North Atlantic: Lincoln MacVeagh
You wouldn’t think someone from old money, who boarded at Groton and went to Harvard, would drop out from that life and work as a busboy, schoolteacher, carpenter, caterer, journalist, and now a computer programmer for New York City.
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BEA 2014: Gregory Maguire Delivers Another Wicked Fairy Tale
It’s been seven years since Gregory Maguire has been to BEA, he thinks, but he’s looking forward to it, comparing the show to the most festive New Year’s Eve celebration.
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BEA 2014: Blessed and Betrayed: Lisa Scottoline
With more than 25 books under her belt since her debut novel, Wherever Mary Went, was published in 1993, Lisa Scottoline is a veritable book-writing machine.
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BEA 2014: Ice Cream Flavors Her Plot: Susan Jane Gilman
Susan Jane Gilman always planned to be a novelist, but took a detour to the nonfiction bestseller lists with Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress, and Kiss My Tiara. Her fiction debut, The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street (Grand Central, June), is off to a rousing start, named one of the “Best Summer Books 2014” by Publishers Weekly.
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BEA 2014: A Civil War Female Voice: Laird Hunt
An obscure but fascinating aspect of the Civil War, when hundreds of women disguised as men enlisted in the army as Union soldiers to fight, is at the heart of Neverhome (Little, Brown; Sept.) by Laird Hunt, the author of five novels and a collection of short stories and a two-time finalist for the PEN Center USA fiction award.
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BEA 2014: 'New York Times' Sportswriter: Harvey Araton
With a byline long familiar to readers of the New York Times sports pages, Harvey Araton is also the author of six critically acclaimed nonfiction sports books, most recently the New York Times bestseller Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry and Baseball’s Greatest Gift.
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BEA 2014: Jane Lynch Adds Credit to Her Resume
Jane Lynch has displayed her diverse talents on a number of stages.
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BEA 2014: The Trail of Lady Liberty: Elizabeth Mitchell
Most folks believe the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States, but Elizabeth Mitchell, in pursuit of researching another topic, came across some diaries of sculptor Frédéric August Bartholdi and learned the true story behind the statue’s creation.
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BEA 2014: Wondering On: R.J. Palacio
Wonder, R.J. Palacio’s 2012 debut novel about Auggie, a fifth-grade boy born with a facial deformity who’s attending mainstream school for the first time, made a critical and commercial splash.
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BEA 2014: A Satisfying Debut Collection: Marthe Jocelyn and Richard Scrimger
“We like each other and we drive each other crazy—that’s a good match for writing,” says Richard Scrimger, describing partnering with fellow Canadian author Marthe Jocelyn on Viminy Crowe’s Comic Book (Tundra, May), illustrated by Claudia Davila.
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BEA 2014: Vintage Reels: Farran Smith Nehme
Thanks to the parents of Farran Smith Nehme, she became a fan of old movies during her childhood in the 1970s when the family would watch them together on the then burgeoning cable TV stations.
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BEA 2014: China Looks Forward to Expanding Communication, Cooperation, and Commerce
Next year China is the guest of honor at Book Expo America’s Global Market Forum and is planning a host of events for the occasion. Vice Minister Wu Shulin details his country’s goals and expectations in this interview with Publishers Weekly.
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BEA 2014: Theatre Noir: Tracy Letts
A small newspaper item about a murderous family in Florida sparked Tracy Letts’s distinguished playwriting career when he was only 26.
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BEA 2014: Magic Up Her Sleeve: Annie Barrows
After meeting in the past in 2007’s The Magic Half, Miri and Molly land safely in the present—but not for long.
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BEA 2014: Blue Skies Ahead: M.O. Walsh
Louisiana writer M.O. Walsh (known as Neal) wonders whether the Buzz Books editors were confused or had a head injury when they picked his debut novel (My Sunshine Away, Putnam/Amy Einhorn Books, Jan. 2015) to be a BEA Buzz Book.
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BEA 2014: Man of Many Voices: Eric Bogosian
“Characters are everything,” says New York Obie-winning actor and writer Eric Bogosian.
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