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Publishers Weeklys Show Daily is produced each day during the 2017 BookExpo in New York.
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A L L T H E B U Z Z O N B O O K E X P O
Amazon Will Be the Fifth LEADING U.S. GENERAL BOOKSTORE CHAINS, BY OUTLETS
Largest Bookstore Chain 2011 2017
By Jim Milliot Barnes & Noble 705 Barnes & Noble 634
Family Christian Stores 283 Books-A-Million 260
A combination of bookstore attrition and its own startup efforts will make
Books-A-Million 232 Half Price Books 121
Amazon Books the fifth largest general bookstore chain in the U.S. based
on the number of outlets. As BookExpo began, Amazon Books had Hastings Entertainment 146 Book World 48
opened seven outlets with confirmed plans to open six more before the Half Price Books 113 Amazon Books 13*
end of the year.
Amazon Books accession couldnt have been accomplished without the Cokesbury57 Total 1,076
steady decline in the number of bookstore chains since 1991. In that year, Book World 42 *ANNOUNCED OR OPENED
there were 11 chains that had 13 or more outlets, with total outlets topping
3,000. In 2017, the five chains on our list had 1,076 outlets. Just since 2011
Total1,578
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
the store count has fallen by 32%.
Among the chains that closed between 1991 and 2011 were Borders,
Crown Books, Bookland Stores, Encore Books, Lauriats, Krochs & Brentanos,
and Tower Books. The most recent round of closings featured two Christian Audiobooks Evolve in the
chains, Family Christian and Cokesbury, plus Hastings Entertainment, a
multimedia chain with books as its largest segment.
Age of Podcasts
Amazon plans to open 13 bookstores by the end of 2017. These stores will Theres a renaissance for spoken-word content and our media diet is
represent the second largest addition of outlets between 2011 and 2017, expanding, but as the landscape becomes more saturated, audiobooks face
behind only the roughly 30 stores
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2:303:30 P.M.
Get tix! Dav Pilkey signs his newest Dog Man book, A Tale of Two Kitties
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(Scholastic), in the Autographing Area, at Table 4.
RAISE A GLASS
25 P.M. Have wine with actor/producer Chris Wiehl in the Waldorf booth
Middle Grade (1632) to celebrate his memoir, Trying to Walk Like a Man.
Book Editors Buzz Panel 4:305:30 P.M. Drink some bubbly and toast The Breakdown (St. Mar-
tins) with author B.A. Paris in the Macmillan booth (3008).
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Organizers of the New York Rights Fair held a party last night to introduce
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the event to the American publishing community. The fair, set for May 30 Author Signing: Grady Hendrix
June 1, 2018, is being developed by Publishers Weekly, Combined Book Paperbacks from Hell (on sale: 9/19/17)
Exhibit, and BolognaFiere, the organizers of the Bologna Childrens Book 1:00 pm
Fair. In from Italy to kick off the event were Marco Momoli, commercial direc-
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tor Italy, BolognaFiere; Elena Pasoli, director, Bologna Childrens Book Fair;
and Giorgio Contini, international director, BolognaFiere. 2:00 pm
The inaugural fair, which will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Man- Author Signing: Jaya Saxena and
hattan, will be the first trade and licensing show in the U.S. dedicated exclu- Jess Zimmerman
sively to the buying and selling of international rights, as well as the distribu- Basic Witches (on sale: 8/29/17)
tion and licensing of content. The show will cover both adult and childrens
content. 4:00 pm
According to the organizers, the fair will offer a unique venue for U.S. pub- Stop by the booth for Quirk-themed
lishers and agents to network with their global counterparts in the publish- cookies and learn about Book Pop!,
ing capital of the world. There is no more essential content marketplace our celebration of 15 years of strikingly
than New York. The U.S. market can be extremely challenging for interna- unconventional publishing.
tional publishers to navigate. A trade show dedicated to both adult and chil-
drens rights and licensing, in an intimate setting, will enhance the current
landscape of fairs focused on the global rights market, said George Slowik, FRIDAY, JUNE 2
Jr., CEO, Publishers Weekly. We anticipate that the New York Rights Fair
will draw a broad international crowd to the U.S. and believe it is the perfect
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synergistic fair with BookExpo for people in the rights business. The event is Tote Bag Giveaway
planned to coincide with BookExpo 2018. 11:00 am
BolognaFiere has had a long and fruitful experience in the organization of Author Signing: David Stabler
numerous international trade shows in many different countries, said
Kid Authors: True Tales of Childhood from
Franco Boni, president of BolognaFiere. This new venture is the natural pro-
Famous Writers (on sale: 10/10/17)
gression of our 54-year-long history with the Bologna Childrens Book Fair
and the meaningful global network that we have established throughout 1:00 pm
these five decades. We are very proud to launch this new show, bringing the Tote Bag Giveaway
flair of Bologna to New York and thereby creating a premium rights market-
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place for adult and kids content today.
Fair organizers said that following the announcement of the event in April, Author Signing: Fred Van Lente
they have received expressions of interest by exhibitors from Catalonia, Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery
China, Italy, and Sharjah in the U.A.E. (on sale: 7/11/17)
The New York Rights Fair will also launch a number of cultural events to *While supplies last
help promote international titles in the U.S. market. The events, the organiz-
ers said, will celebrate the artistry, creativity, and innovation of the worlds
publishing community.
Registration for the fair opened yesterday, when the fairs website went live quirkbooks.com | /quirkbooks
at newyorkrightsfair.com. For more information on registration, please con-
tact Jon Malinowski, jon@combinedbook.com. Jim Milliot
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and-mortar business are murky, but the company has ramped up its store
openings since it launched the first one in November 2015. Though Amazon
took 10 months between opening its first store in Seattle and its second in
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PW 2017 Award Winners rights transactions and the ability of publishers to take advantage of the
demand for American content in the international marketplace. Indeed, the
name of the report is Publishing Rights: An Untapped Opportunity.
Among the findings was that over 53% of survey respondents said that
their organization is currently missing out on meaningful rights revenue.
The survey found a host of issues that have made the failure to collect more
rights revenue an ongoing problem. Those issues include ineffective, costly
paper-based work flows that are characterized by disconnected systems and
a lack of standard approaches. Publishers also said that confusion about
who controls which rights has grown worse, particularly for backlist, acquired,
and divested works and imprints.
While a solid majority of publishers believe that sales of digital rights will
grow both in the U.S. and abroad, many expressed caution about moving
ahead to take advantage of the opportunity. As one publisher noted, Clearing
Collette Morgan (l.), owner of Minneapoliss Wild Rumpus, this years
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PW Bookstore of the Year Award winner, fist bumps the 2017 PW Sales appropriate rights to third-party material is massively time-consuming and a
Rep of the Year, Anne DeCourcey (r.), with HarperCollins. cost burden. Its very difficult to obtain rights that are sufficient to exploit
content and sell on to translating publishers.
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In a room packed with hundreds of booksellers, the editors at this years
Adult Editors Buzz Panel were so persuasive in talking up the six forthcoming
releases that the galley giveaway following the presentation turned into a
scrum. Audience members eagerly snatched up novels that shared one thing
in common, flawed protagonists battling obstacles that were too often of
their own making.
Noting that she has always been fascinated by handsome, sophisticated,
erudite sociopaths, Jackie Cantor, senior editor at Simon & Schuster/Scout
Press, described Liz Nugents Unraveling Oliver (Aug.) as a thriller with a
protagonist seemingly without a conscience, who commits an act of violence
against his wife. Oliver is the ultimate con man, Cantor said. But Nugent
manages to make [him] someone you will care about.
Knopf senior editor Jennifer Jackson compared Stay with Me (Aug.) by
Ayobami Adebayo to The Handmaids Tale. She described it as the story of a
Nigerian woman whose fertility comes to be the most important thing in her
life, so essential that she will risk everything to become pregnant. The
female spirit in this book is vibrant, it is alive, it is white hot, Jackson said.
At a Wednesday morning panel on industry data, NPD Books Kristen
Turtle, the 14-year-old daughter of a survivalist in My Absolute Darling
McLean pointed to the solid growth in childrens book sales. Print unit sales
(Sept.) by Gabriel Tallent, is going to be held in readers hearts for genera-
rose at a 5% annual rate in the 2013-2016 period. E-book sales, mean-
tions, Riverhead Books editor-in-chief Sarah McGrath predicted. She
while, have remained a small part of the childrens book business, account-
ing for 9% of juvenile fiction sales and just 1% of juvenile nonfiction. described the novel as a tale of suspense that will consume, challenge, and
change readers.
Calling The World of Tomorrow (Sept.) by Brendan Mathews an Irish Kava-
lier and Klay, Little, Brown senior editor Ben George said the novel is both a
Most respondents agreed that fully love letter to pre-WWII New York City and a testament to the idea that
exploiting the rights opportunities everybody has a story; everybody matters. And, he added, despite it clock-
would require further investment by ing in at 552 pages, it reads like a book half its length, with an ending that
the organizations they work for, but has made early readers cry.
only 40% said that their organization Im a sucker for sibling stories, Putnam editorial editor Sally Kim said,
was prepared to make such invest- especially stories about adult siblings who are renegotiating their relation-
ments. A major stumbling block for ships. The Immortalists (Jan. 2018) by Chloe Benjamin, about four children
those companies not considering investments in rights-management sys- who are told by a fortune-teller of the dates of their deaths, tells the story of
tems was an uncertain return on investment. If there were a clear way to iden- each over the next five decades.
tify how much money was being lost to uncollected rights, half of respon- The Woman in the Window (Jan. 2018) by A.J. Flynn is a taut, pristine
dents said that their company would be more likely to make an effort to Hitchcockian thriller, Morrow executive editor Jennifer Brehl said, about a
improve rights collection. woman who spends her time drinking and spying on her neighbors. The
The survey found six areas that respondents said should be made priorities twists and turns of this story will take your breath away, she said. A real-
in terms of allocating investment funds: creating a rights licensing database world twist to the story: Flynn is a pseudonym for her colleague, executive
and tracking rights income; upgrading their royalties database; consolidat- editor Daniel Mallory. It surprised the hell out of all of us, Brehl said.
ing systems; creating new online systems to capture rights; investing in ERP, Claire Kirch
or enterprise resource planning, to capture all revenue streams; and digitiz-
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Today, 2. p.m. Rights Committee members discuss survey results at the Mad dash for galleys talked up by editors at the Adult Buzz Panel.
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12:00 1:00 PM Michael Ruhlman The Future of Book Publishing panel (l. to r.): David Ewalt,
Rene Mauborgne, Peter Hildick-Smith, David Culley,
author of Grocery, signing finished copies Dominique Raccah, and panel moderator Jon Fine.
The most useful takeaway from The Future of Book Publishing panel, held
yesterday at the Javits Center, was that the future of the industry isnt some
faraway possibility. Its actually taking place all around us, right now.
Panelists touched on recent industry data citing the continuing strength of
the physical book (both its sales and its social character) as well as the grow-
ing importance (and continued neglect) of backlist titles, and the maturation
of self-publishing from a disruptive, maverick effort into a legitimate profes-
sional publishing category. Much of this information has been previously
offered at digital and/or publishing conventions over the past five years or
so, but it doesnt hurt to remind the industry (again) that examples of its
1:00 2:00 PM Diana Harmon Asher future are among us.
author of Sidetracked, signing ARCs Baker & Taylor president David Culley outlined changes in the library mar-
ket and Folletts long-term role in everything from running college book-
stores (more than 1,200 currently) to creating learning software for colleges
and developing software for libraries that can recommend popular titles.
Sourcebooks publisher Dominique Raccah highlighted the durability of
print books. Books are not like music or magazines or anything else. Theyre
different, she said. Raccah noted the growing sales of print books (61% of
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mat for sharing, whether as a gift or a conversation starter. Reading is grow-
POSTER! ing, she said, and teens and millennials prefer print to e-books. On top of
that, she added, theres been an explosion of writing and the unprece-
2:00 3:00 PM Grant Snider dented growth of self-publishing that offers new ways to connect books and
author of The Shape of Ideas, signing finished copies writers to readers.
Although virtual and augmented reality (AR) applications for the book
industry remain in their infancy, tech writer and author Dave Ewalt joked
that the technologies will destroy books completely! But he also explained
that AR platforms like the New York Times 360 video journalism and the
Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will offer authors and publishers a whole
new way to process information and tell stories. Technology platforms like
AltspaceVR, he added, have the ability to bring groups of people together in
virtual space and may signal the future of reading and even digital sales.
The panel stressed the importance of innovation, of turning competitive
threats into opportunities to create new markets and new customers.
Indeed, the presentation by Rene Mauborgne, author of the bestselling
3:00 4:00 PM Action Bronson business title Blue Ocean Strategy, reinforced that concept with a personal
author of F*ck Thats Delicious, signing posters anecdote. When Mauborgne met her copanelist Dominique Raccah at the
show, Raccah immediately thanked her and outlined how Blue Ocean Strat-
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Person of the Year, had distributed the book to staffers at Sourcebooks and
used it as a model for her own innovative strategies at the company. The
abramsbooks.com/BookExpo future of book publishing is going on right now at Sourcebooks, and through-
out much of the industry. Calvin Reid
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Celebrate 75 years of Auma is a 13-year-old girl who loves school and runninga combination
that could be her ticket out of her small Kenyan village. But when AIDS
begins to ravage her community, she has to figure out how to help her
the Boxcar Children! family while still fighting for her own future. Aumas struggle resonated
with me. While her struggle is singular, much of her experience in Kenya
echoes the experiences of kids in the U.S. Society as a whole doesnt encour-
age kidsespecially girlsto think critically, question authority, or forge
unexpected paths for themselves in the face of hardship.
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In 13-year-old Asters family, girls are witches and boys are shape-shifters.
deluxe Boxcar Children gift basket! But Aster cant seem to shiftand he cant stop spying on the witchery les-
sons his sisters and female cousins are learning. When one of the other boys
shifts into something monstrous, Aster wants to use his skills as a witch to
help, even if that means defying everything his family believes. The Witch
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Meet Albert Whitman & Companys Liz Szabla, associate publisher, Feiwel & Friends, on Greetings from
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authors at BookExpo! This is a funny and heartfelt debut novel about a foster-care girl who is placed
with a family in the witness protection program. What she finds, besides the
Booth #1913 kind of family shes never had, is that hiding in plain sight is complicatedand
dangerous. Jake Burts talent is all his own. He knows his audience wellhe
Thursday, June 1 teaches fifth gradeand his protagonist, Nicki, is one of the most satisfying
Andrea J. Loney 2 p.m. and fully imagined characters Ive ever read.
Nancy Siscoe, senior executive editor, Knopf Books for Young Readers,
on The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
Its Christmas Eve in Harlem, and 12-year-old Lolly and his mom are still
reeling from his older brothers death in a gang-related shooting a few
months earlier. Then Lollys mothers girlfriend brings him a challenging
gift: two enormous bags filled with Legos. Faced with a pile of blocks and no
instructions, he must find his own way forward.
David Barclay Moore paints a powerful portrait of a boy teetering on the
Friday, June 2 edgeof adolescence, of grief, of violence. Lollys voice is so distinctits a
remarkable blend of innocence, bravado, grief, and anger. Moore also paints
Megan E. Bryant 10 a.m. Katherine Locke 2 p.m. a picture of present-day Harlem that is nuanced and lived-in.
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Claire Messud
An Angle on Adolescent Angst
The trauma of being a teen was brought home to Claire Messud when her
teenaged daughters best friend summarily dumped her during the first
week of high school. That experience plus a teen suicide in the authors own
childhood circle of friends sparked her new novel, The Burning Girl (Norton,
Aug.), a coming-of-age story about two friends whose relationship implodes
during adolescence.
I was always haunted by that suicide, Messud says, and watching my much of the stories that we
daughter traverse the perilous ground of adolescence brought back to me so take in and internalize as we
vividly that time in my own life. The experiences that they had is part of what are of the experiences that
made me want to write about it now. we live through. I have said it somewhereour literary lived lives are as
A keen observer of how our culture affects our lives in books like The Emperors important as our literally lived lives.
Children and The Woman Upstairs, among others, Messud is stunned by how Its been a while since Messud last appeared at BookExpo. She laughs as
the media portrays teenagers. The fictional narratives that television, film, she explains: I know it was many years ago because Julia Child was there.
and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling,she says. The This years Adult Book and Author breakfast seems like a Caryl Churchill
moments when they are at the center of attention are when they are disem- play. Im going to be meeting these amazing people, some of whom are writ-
bodied, slaughtered, or kidnapped. I wanted to write against that in part, too. ers, others of whom primarily have different careers and happen to have
This is Messuds sixth work of fiction, and while she never repeats herself, written books. Im excited and daunted in equal measure. Hilary S. Kayle
certain themes recur throughout her writing. This sense in which so much
Today, 89:30 a.m. Claire Messud will appear at the Adult Book and
of who we are doesnt break the surfaceour knowability to one another is
Author Breakfast, Special Events Hall.
always something I like to explore, Messud says. What is the truth? Is it what Today, 1011 a.m. Messud will sign at the ABA Members Lounge booth
you experience; is it what I experience; or is there some objective truth in (721).
between? Another thing that I profoundly believe is that we are made up as Today, 1111:30 a.m. Messud will sign at the Norton booth (1620).
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Scott Kelly
A Space Hero
Fittingly, retired astronaut Scott Kellys memoir, Endurance: A Year in Space, his studies, he woke up every morn-
A Lifetime of Discvery (Knopf, Oct.), written with Margaret Lazarus Dean, ing and struggled to think of a reason
began with another book: Tom Wolfes classic saga of the early days of to go to class. But Wolfes story of
Americas space program, The Right Stuff. Americas space pioneers provided
Kelly, who set the record for the total accumulated number of days spent in Kelly not only direction but lifelong
space by an American astronaut, admits he was a directionless college fresh- inspiration.
man with terrible grades before he read that book. Unable to concentrate on Of the early astronauts, Kelly says
the man
he knew best was John Glenn. But, he adds, The
astronaut that other astronauts, myself included,
use as a role model is John Youngmoon walker,
although he would say moon worker, and first
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A veteran of four space flights, Kelly describes
AT BOOTH #3002 in Endurance his yearlong mission, 2015 into
2016, on board the International Space Station.
for Author Signings & Giveaways! He also details the difficulties, including isolation
from loved ones and the comforts of Earth, as
well as the risks of depressurization and the
debilitating effects of his weightless environment.
To help him overcome them, Kelly says, he turned
THURSDAY, JUNE 1 to examples like famed explorer Ernest Shackle-
ton, whose voyages to the Antarctic Kelly read
9am Rodale tote giveaway about late at night.
Any time I thought [being in space for a year]
was hard, Kelly says, I thought what the crew of
10am Rise Up galley giveaway [Shackletons ship] Endurance had to endure,
and it put things right back into perspective.
11am Performance & signing by Kira Willey, A passionate advocate for space exploration,
author of Breathe Like a Bear Kelly also uses the pages of Endurance to lay out
the benefits of his mission. He points out that
weightlessness mimics the symptoms of aging.
2pm King of Too Many Things giveaway Theres also the same type of practical experience
necessary for undertaking even longer expeditions,
3:30pm Team Taekwondo swag bag giveaway including NASAs long-awaited voyage to Mars.
Although Kelly will be speaking about his adult
book at this mornings breakfast, he is also work-
ing on a childrens account of his recent space
mission. This fall, Crown will publish a picture
book adaptation of his memoir, My Journey to
the Stars (Oct.), and Kelly is also planning to write
further books for young readers. I want to show
kids that you can accomplish your goals, regardless
of where you start from, he adds. D.A. Stern
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AUTHORS
Whitney Cummings
venti, why not call it a large? I can lose
three hours over that. When I read that
book, it made me feel less crazy, more
Shes Not Fine at Alland Proud of It understood. Actually, maybe, somewhat
fine? Beth Levine
When did people start saying they were fine when they were the opposite of
Today, 89:30 a.m. Whitney
fine? Actress and comedian Whitney Cummings wants to know why she cant
Cummings will emcee the Adult Book
say, Im really not fine at all, and in fact, I may stab you in the eye with my fork and Author Breakfast, Special Events
if you dont shut up. In her debut book, Im Fine... and Other Lies (Putnam, Hall.
Oct.), the creator and star of Whitney, and co-creator and co-writer of 2 Today, 1011 a.m. Cummings will sign
in the ABA Members Lounge booth
Broke Girls, wants to make it fine to be not fine at all.
(721).
I feel like women and men arent allowed to show their insecurities and
fears, she says. I wanted to write a book that is
about removing the shame from being human
and making mistakes. Its okay to say, Im not
doing so well.
Those who follow Cummingss Twitter feed know
that she has no problem going there. Every other
post seems to come with the warning: This media
may contain sensitive material. She says, Ive
always been obsessed with the taboo, whats off
limits, because thats where we find who we are.
I have dark thoughts, but when I started sharing
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them, people laughed. So I thought, Im not alone.
Cummings got the idea for the book after going
through a traumatic period when she was strug-
gling with anxiety over things she couldnt control.
I was in lots of draining relationships, taking on
more work than I could handle. I couldnt say no to
people. I got very sick as a result, but I had learned
that when someone asks you how you are, you
arent allowed to say not okay, Cummings notes.
I found myself always saying, Im fine, Im fine,
when really I was on the edge of a mental
breakdown.
A therapist diagnosed Cummings with co-de-
pendence. I didnt even know what she was
talking about. I thought it meant you spent too
much time with your boyfriend. She explained
that its when you cant tolerate the discomfort
of others. You are reactive to others rather than
proactive. I was unable to stand up for myself and
ask for what I needed, she says.
Cummingss therapist said that fine is actually an
acronym for F*cked-Up Insecure Neurotic Emo-
tional. After writing about it in Lena Dunham and
Jennie Konners newsletter, The Lenny Letter,
people began stopping Cummings in the street
to tell her how they also struggle with this. So she
decided to expand the essay into a book.
In Im Fine And Other Lies, Cummings says that
she wrote about things that some of her friends
dont even know about her. She broke her shoulder
trying to make a guy like her, and another time she
almost got sent to a Guatemalan prison.
Cummings says that her journey to comedy and
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Visit the Italian Pavilion
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What Its Like to Be a Dog
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Let Dogs Be Dogs Signing Tequila Mockingbird The Walls Hollie Overton (Redhook)
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THURSDAY | JUNE 1
9:30 am to 10:00 am Rich Dad Advisor Garrett Sutton, Esq. | More Important Than Money
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Kim Kiyosaki | Rich Woman and More Important Than Money
11:00 am to 11:30 am Rich Dad Advisor Ken McElroy | More Important Than Money
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Robert Kiyosaki | Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
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9:30 am to 10:00 am Rich Dad Advisor Andy Tanner | More Important Than Money
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Join TURNER Publishing for... John Hodgman
A Comedian Confronts Middle Age
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TO You catch me in my frailty and my weakness as an increasingly older dude,
actor and comedian John Hodgman says. The former Daily Show with Jon
Stewart contributor, who now hosts the Judge John Hodgman podcast and
GRAB: contributes a weekly column under the same name for the New York Times
Magazine, where he arbitrates real-life problems, has dropped the clean-
shaven, brainy persona he used to deliver fake news, to write about his life in
Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches (Viking, Oct.). I had written
a thousand pages of fake facts that contained every joke and story I needed to
tell. And now I was out of material, Hodgman says, referring to his Complete
World Knowledge trilogy (Dutton): The Areas of My Expertise (2005), More
Information Than You Require (2008), and That Is All Maine (2011).
Two years ago, Hodgman found new inspiration in the basement performance
space below Union Hall, a popular bar in Brooklyn, N.Y. There he held court
once a week while he developed a one-man show called Vacationland. None
of it was written down, except in very broad strokes as a series of notes,
Hodgman says. Over time, I would talk it out on stage until it filled the shape
that I wanted it to.
Hodgman spent nearly a year adapting the show into a book of the same
name. Instead of fake facts, Vacationland taps into his genuine memories of
his 20s and 30s in western Massachusetts and his middle-aged move to a
family vacation home in Maine. Maine is called Vacationland, which is some-
thing of a cruel joke because the beaches are so painful and the water wants
to kill you, Hodgman says. But if you are someone who naturally believes they
dont deserve happiness in the first place, then Maine is a great place to vaca-
tion. It definitely promotes contemplation of mortality in a very amusing way.
Mortality and family legacy are major themes of the book, which also cap-
tures the bruising effect middle age has had on the authors comedy mojo.
Hodgman recalls how one of his jokes recently fell flat at his local coffee shop.
Nice dad joke, the barista had scoffed.
At that moment, Hodgman realized he had crossed the invisible borderland
of cultural relevancy that separates the young and the old. I had never heard that
term before, he says, laughing. But I heard it loud and clear in that moment.
Thats how I died. In that moment. I died. Now you are talking to a ghost.
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Michael Korda
A 360-Degree Dive into Dunkirk
Are You Ready for
lars lonninge
After he finished writing Clouds of
a Higher Quality, Glory: The Life and Legend of
Robert E. Lee, prolific author
U.S. Owned Editorial and Michael Korda, who spent
decades as the distinguished edi-
of the worlds most recognized publishers. IF WE DONT TALK 10-day ordeal in vivid detail,Korda also
places Dunkirk in context. You think
Today, 22:30 p.m. Michael Korda signs Alone in the Liveright booth (1620).
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lu te ly sa tisfy pre-exist
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Dusti Bowling
Insignificant Events
in the Life of a Cactus
MIDDLE-GRADE FICTION
3:00PM
Summer Rayne
Oakes
Stop by BOOTH #420 he says. September 2000, intifada in Jerusalem, then I came back and
moved to New York [for 9/11].
for author signings, giveaways*, and more! Englanders despair and frustration about the prospect for peace between
the Israelis and the Palestinians is palpable. I was just so heartbroken by
what I saw then as the end of the peace process. I still held out hope, and I
still do hold that hope, he says. But Ive just been obsessed with that period
and dreaming of that time. So this is a book Ive wanted to write for two
decades.
A political thriller centered around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Dinner
at the Center of the Earth takes place mainly in 2002 and 2014. You spend
so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories. For this book, I
wanted to relax into my brain. I think in circles, I speak in circles. I unravel my
thoughts that way, Englander says. This book for me was the first time
where I wanted to address that circularity and not be afraid to weave time, to
weave threads, to explore this question of Palestine and Israeli peace, of
occupation, of greater Israel. I wanted to find a story that could contain it
*while supplies last and look at it head-on.
This is also the Pulitzer Prize finalists first time at BookExpo, and he is
super-excited. Because of this afternoons signing, he calls this the cross-
over day, when his novel goes out into the world and the book becomes real.
www.SterlingPublishing.com Hilary S. Kayle
@SterlingBooks @SterlingKids
Today, 4:305:30 p.m. Nathan Englander will sign at the Penguin Random
House booth (1921).
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ME E T & GRE E T
HELL DIVERS II: GHOSTS
Thursday, 10:00 10:30 a.m.
Table 7, Autographing Area
Your chance to meet USA Today bestselling author
Nicholas Sansbury Smith! The author will sign copies of
Hell Divers II: Ghosts (Hell Divers Trilogy, Book 2).
An exciting new take on the end of the world and Nicholas Sansbury Smith
a thrilling race to survive...Sure to delight fans of
survival and postapocalyptic thrillers.
A. G. Riddle, bestselling author
of The Atlantis Gene, on Hell Divers
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FALSE FLAG
Thursday, 1:00 1:30 p.m.
Table 4, Autographing Area
Meet John Altman, the author of the acclaimed novels
Disposable Asset and A Game of Spies. Altman will sign a
copy of his daring new political thriller False Flag.
LOVED
Friday, 2:30 3:30 p.m.
Table 1, Autographing Area
Ticketed Signing
Meet #1 New York Times bestselling and
#1 USA Today bestselling authors P. C. Cast and Kristin
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Alice Hoffman
The Method Behind the Magic
For the past two decades, fans have wanted to know what happened to the
characters in Alice Hoffmans 1995 novel, Practical Magic, which was
turned into a film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.
[Practical Magic] is a lot of peoples favorite book, and many also loved
the movie. I thought it would be great to go backward in time with it, not for-
ward, Hoffman says. She wanted to look at the aunts to find out how they
came to be who they were.
In order to write the prequel, The Rules of Magic (Simon & Schuster, Oct.),
Hoffman had to
Carole P Roman research New
Critically Acclaimed and Award-winning Childrens Book Author York City in the
BRINGS YOU CHILDRENS LITERATURE FOR ALL AGES! 1960s. I felt
like I was time
traveling. It was
Captain No BeardAn Imaginary Tale of a Pirates Life
fun to be back
Captain No Beard and his crew mates travel the open waters on his in New York
pirate ship The Flying Dragon while learning valuable life lessons.
[then], Hoffman
Once on board, their world is transformed into a magical vessel sailing
the seven seas on dangerous and exciting adventures! says. I did a lot
of research
The first in the series of ten Captain No Beard books! about Greenwich
Captain No Beard: An Imaginary Tale of a Pirates Life, Pepper Parrots Problem with Patience,
Stuck in the Doldrums, Strangers at the High Seas, The Treasure of Snake Island, The Crew Village, and I feel
Goes Coconuts, Captain No Beard and the Aurora Borealis, Fribbet The Frog and the Tadpoles,
A Flag for the Flying Dragon, and Being A Captain Is Hard Work I could now lead
Kirkus Reviews tours around Washington Square Park. Everything
Best of 2012!
was so new and uniquefashion youd never
Roman charms with an imaginative, seen before, music youd never heard before. It
whimsical picture book that will entertain
even the oldest pirates. was also a time when people were into looking at
KIRKUS REVIEW different philosophies and cultures, different
WINNER OF THE ERIK AND ways of thinking, looking at spirituality, astrology.
NABE PINNACLE AWARDS
People used drugs to expand their minds and
thoughts about what reality was, so for me it
Also available by Carole P. Roman seemed like the perfect setting for magic.
If You Were me and Lived In... Oh Susannah: Its in the Bag,
A new nonfiction series for children One To Ten: Squirrels Bad Day and As Hoffman explored the 60s, she saw parallels
about countries, culture, and Can A Princess Be a Firefighter? with whats happening in the world today. There
civilizations around the world.
This series is an expanding series were a lot of people back then feeling like outsiders,
with 4 new books released every year. New kid on the chapter being different and disapproved of, just like today,
Places featured include: bookshelf, and you simply
India, Mexico, Peru, South Korea, France, must get to know her in she says. Theres a similar kind of realization and
Australia, Kenya, Egypt, Norway, Italy, this charming story!
China, Scotland, Russia, Hungary,
worry about what would happen if there were a
THE CHILDRENS
Portugal, Greece, Mali, Turkey, and Mars!
BOOK REVIEW war. Back then, and now, there were fears about
Civilizations featured include: the government, and young people similarly are
Colonial America, Ancient Greece, Renaissance
Italy, and Elizabethan England, Vikings, Old really nervous that theres not a future for them.
American West, Medieval Times, and Mayans!
The Boston-based writer has appeared at
BookExpo several times, and looks forward to
returning. Its a great experience because I
get to see so many people, many of whom I know
from Facebook, but have never met in person,
ABOUT CAROLE P. ROMAN
Award-winning author Carole P. Roman started writing as a dare from one of her sons. Using an imaginary game she played with her she says, adding, BookExpo is such a great way
grandson as a base, Captain No Beard was born. She is currently working on the groundbreaking new nonfiction series about culture around to get your book out there and connect with
the world. If You Were Me and Lived in... combines her teaching past with her love of exploration and interest in the world around us.
readers and bloggers and people you wouldnt
Find out more at CarolePRoman.com ordinarily meet. Hilary S. Kayle
ALL TITLES AVAILABLE NOW ON
Today, 1212:45 p.m. Alice Hoffman will sign
at the Simon & Schuster booth (1420, 1421).
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THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2017
FLATIRON BOOKS
Here is a sneak peek from chapter four
of Kings first father/son collaboration:
Grant Ginder
GRANT GINDER
populationthirty-two thousandresided.
There were a total of ten walk-in clinics in the three
counties, plus two dozen so-called pain clinics
11:30 AM A R C G I V E AWAY
out in the piney woods, where various opioid
drugs could be obtained with prescriptions writ- Girls Made of Snow and Glass
ten on the spot. Once, before most of the mines Melissa Bashardoust
had played out, the Tri-Counties had been known
as the Republic of Fingerless Men. These days it
had become the Republic of Unemployed Men, 3:15 PM A R C G I V E AWAY
3:45 PM A R C G I V E AWAY
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places, after all, and
although Michaela Morgans
GOT
report from that old folks
home in Georgetown was
mildly alarming, and
Washington, DC, was
geographically close
not even a days drive
DC was still a city, and for
GAME
most people in the
Tri-Counties, that put it in
an entirely different cate-
gory. Besides, not many
people in the area watched
NewsAmerica, preferring
Good Day Wheeling or
Ellen DeGeneres.
The first sign that some-
thing might be wrong even
out here in Gods country
Stephen King came shortly after eight
oclock AM. It arrived at
the doors of St. Theresas
danielle lurie
in the person of Yvette
Quinn, who parked her
elderly Jeep Cherokee
askew at the curb and
came charging into the
ER with her infant twin girls
crooked in her arms. A
tiny, cocoon-swaddled face
rested against each of her
breasts. She was scream-
ing like a fire siren, bring-
ing doctors and nurses
running.
Someone help my
babies! They wont wake
up! They wont wake up
for anything!
Tiffany Jones, much older
but similarly swaddled,
They Call Me Pudge arrived soon thereafter,
Owen King and by three oclock that
My Life Playing the Game I Love Ivan Rodriguez
afternoon, the ER was full.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 2017
And still they came: fathers and mothers carrying daughters, girls carrying
little sisters, uncles carrying nieces, husbands carrying wives. There was no
Judge Judy, no Dr. Phil, and no game shows on the waiting room TV that
afternoon. Only news, and all of it was about the mysterious sleeping sick-
ness, the one that affected only those with XX chromosomes.
The exact minute, half-minute, or second when sleeping female Homo sapi-
ens stopped waking up and began to form their coverings was never conclu-
sively determined. Based on the cumulative data, however, scientists were
eventually able to narrow the window to a point between 7:37 AM EST and
@TriumphBooks 7:57 AM EST.
We can only wait for them to wake up, said George Alderson on
NewsAmerica. And so far, at least, none of them have. Heres Michaela
Morgan with more.
BOOTH #1703 Excerpted from Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King.
Copyright 2017 by Stephen King and Owen King. Reprinted with per-
mission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.
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Graydon House
has the most buzzworthy books
of the Fall.
We know how you feel. BookExpo can be an exciting whirlwind couple of days in the
lives of librarians, a test of endurance and an unrelenting blitz of meetings, panels,
and programs, often completed with 30-pound bags of advance reader copies slung
over each shoulder. Sometimes, you need a break. And in the Librarians Lounge (booth
875), youll get just that.
Thanks to our sponsorsBaker & Taylor; DK; Center Street; Harlequin; Little,
Brown Books for Young Readers; Penguin Random House; Recorded Books; Rowman
& Littlefield; and Sourcebooksthis years lounge figures to be our best yet. On both
days of the show, 12:302 p.m., lunch is served, courtesy of Rowman & Littlefield. And
check out PW Show Daily each day for a lineup of exclusive author appearances and
giveaways. Whether you need a place to get off your feet and recharge (yourself, or
your phone), meet old and new friends and compare notes, or hear from a popular
author or two and take home some signed copies, we hope to see you in the Librari-
ans Lounge.
CHIA MESDSINA
MICHAEL WINSLOW
Jonathan
Todd
Ross
Tim
Johnny Gerard
Heller Reynolds
Johnny Heller has narrated a whopping 600 titles for adults, young adults, and children,
hitting almost every genre. Heller has won numerous awards for his work, including a
Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award, and his best-known works include the Baseball Card
Adventures series by Dan Gutman and Marley & Me by John Grogan.
Jonathan Todd Ross is the voice of Luthor, the Doberman, from the popular Swindle
series, and he can also be seen and heard in numerous commercials and audiobooks,
including Jonathan Safran Foers Eating Animals and Gary Shteyngarts Little Failure.
Tim Gerard Reynolds was trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre for Theatre and
Drama Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Among his works, he is the voice of the epic Age
of Myth series by Michael J. Sullivan, widely considered one of the finest next-genera-
tion storytellers.
DAVID STRAUSS
SKYHORSE
PUBLISHING
Brian Kenney is director of the White Plains (N.Y.) Public Library. He is the
former editorial director of Library Journal and Publishers Weekly, and
currently a PW contributing editor.
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A moving memoir about overcoming anorexia
and sexual abuse and becoming whole. CHILDRENS
AUTHORS
Kwame Alexander
Paying Tribute to Rock and Roll
and Ghana
Katie Green, 2017. The Lion Forge, LLC. Today, 11 a.m.noon. Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess will sign
ARCs of Solo in the Autographing Area, at Table 3.
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Loving Robert Lowell by Sandra Hochman Applewood Books 2473 This rhyming, colorfully-illustrated childrens book
Turner Publishing 2470 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm about one childs search for a bathroom will make
10:00 am - 11:00 am kids and the young at heart laugh out loud! Its a
Packed with details for the youngest travelers, the universal question from kids of all ages who really
The first of three new literary works by Sandra book takes little readers from the Statue of Liberty have to go.
Hochman, author of Walking Papers. in the east to the Golden Gate in the west. Along the
way, budding Junior Rangers will begin to develop Cool For You by Eileen Myles
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The first published novel of legendary poet and
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performer Eileen Myles, following a queer female
captures the delicate negotiations and simple joys
growing up in working-class Boston, straining
of toddlers.
against the institutions that hold her.
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AUTHORS
Mo Willems
Summer is
Welcoming New Babies
Heating Up
jo chattman
ITS NOT EVEN
IMPORTANT
Hachette Audio launches an innovative
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ITS JUST THE
MOMENT OF
BEING WITH
THE CHILD.
Mo Willems, the award-winning author-illustrator of the Elephant and Piggie
and Pigeon series, wants to make babies feel welcome in his newly released
picture book, Welcome: A Mo Willems Guide for New Arrivals (Disney-
Hyperion). Organized like an instruction manual with bright road-sign illus-
trations and Mylar mirrors throughout, the book is designed to hold babies
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welcoming to the adults in young childrens lives.
Without question, reading to children is important. But Willems also
emphasizes the time spent with the child. Sometimes, he notes, its not
even important what you say, its just
the moment of being with the child.
To that end, Welcome was created to
ON SALE JULY 4 ON SALE JULY 18 ON SALE JULY 18 offer a tactile experience for babies
and adults to enjoy together.
Stop by the Hachette Book Group Booth For each of his books, Willems con-
siders the interplay between words
to take a listen and learn more!
and pictures as a dance between the
physical object, the book, and the
text. He begins each new project by
CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH asking, What are the aesthetics of
WITH HACHETTE AUDIO, the piece and how does that inform
the language? Early on in writing Welcome, Willems says he knew that signs
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Saturday, June 3rd, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. tions helped him find the storys rhythm, a process he describes as organic.
BOOTHS 2502 / 2503 He compares it to growing a plant, where you have to be there and ready
and open for unexpectedness, because thats part of it.
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The signs welcome the reader or readee, as Willems describes the baby
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or small child, without making reference to race or gender. The concepts, for
Willems, are fundamental universals that are being discussed, and the idea
of being inclusive plays a big role in this. The last page, which ends with You
are loved/ right here,/ right now..., drives the point home for the reader as
much as the readee. Hopefully, says Willems, [love] is not something you
powered by need to earn. There are other things you need to earn, but the love should be
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AUTHORS
KILL YOUR CUSTOMERS... Ainsley Earhardt
Seeing the World Through a
WITH KINDNESS. Childs Eyes
ACCLAIMED TITLESONLY $9 99 EACH!
LESSONS MY DAD
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ers hopes and dreams at the
beginning of her childs life. The
1:00 PM
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WAT C H
ME
DISAPPEAR 4:00 PM
JANELLE
BROWN
A novel by the author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
LINWOOD
though as adults we usually hate rainy days, for the first time I got to experi-
ence rain through my daughters eyesand I realized there is nothing better
than that.
BARCLAY
Thankful for her lifes gifts and committed to giving back, the author (as
she did with Take Heart) will donate a portion of her proceeds from Through
Your Eyes to Folds of Honor, an organization that provides scholarships and
assistance to the spouses and children of fallen soldiers in service to
America.
Thrilled to be attending BookExpo for the first time, Earhardt is eager to
meet booksellers and thank them for selling Take Heart, and helping so
many people to hear my dads words. She is eager to introduce them to her
new book and its simple message: Slow down each moment, take time to
watch your child take in all the small things, and enjoy every change.
Sally Lodge
Today, 1 p.m. Ainsley Earhardt will sign copies of Take Heart, My Child,
in the S&S booth (1420, 1421).
anne lower
Jack Gantos has never shied
from sharing his own life in
booksvery effectively. He
won the 2012 Newbery for his
autobiographical Dead End in
Norvelt, and Hole in My Life,
his YA memoir, received
Michael L. Printz and Robert F.
Sibert honors. In Writing
Radar: Using Your Journal to
Snoop Out and Craft Great
Stories (Farrar, Straus and Gir-
oux, Aug.), Gantos again
mines his past, sharing his own
experiences as a developing
writer and his passion for his
craft to encourage aspiring
authors to build confidence
SIGNING AT
and establish good writing
habits.
Based on the key role that his boyhood journal played in igniting his own
OUR BOOTH writing career, Gantos urges kids to keep journals and to use them to find
story ideas in their own lives. He began writing as a sixth grader, after he
surreptitiously read his older sisters diary and was less than impressed. I
always thought my sister was twice as clever as I, so I was sure that her diary
Visit our booth for would contain world-shaking news. But when I snuck into it, I was disap-
exciting daily giveaways! pointed that what she had written was so vacuous and saccharine, and that
shed written nothing about me! he tells Show Daily. Certain that he could
do a better job, Gantos persuaded his mother to buy him a journal, but when
he first sat down with it, nothing blossomed but the word loser, he says.
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B . A . PA RIS
SUSPENSE THAT GETS
INSIDE YOUR HEAD
JENNY ROGNEBY IS Id open my journal, stare at the pages, and close itover and over again. It
THE NEW QUEEN OF NORDIC NOIR. was a soul-crushing moment when I realized I was a blank slate!
But not for long. It occurred to him that maybe my dads off-color, dinner
Her heroine is like no one else.
table stories might be interesting to write down, and he also came across a
And the way she writes! She grabs you copy of Harriet the Spy while shelving books at the library. I saw on the
and you just cant stop reading. cover that Harriet had a journal, he notes. As I read the novel, a lightning
bolt hit me in the pen. I realized that all you have to do is snoop around and
DAV I D L AG E R C R A N T Z , author of the #1 best-selling write down everything you see. So I put a pad of paper into my bike basket,
The Girl in the Spiders Web (Millennium Series) and rode around the neighborhood,
drawing pictures of the houses and
writing down everything I saw. It was
kind of like walking into a darkroom
Y
O K O F T H E L E O N A T R IL O G and watching a photo come to life.
T H E F IR S T B O Though that was Gantoss jump-
ing-off point, he realized he still
had no clue how to organize the
material. I knew that a story has a
beginning, a middle, and an end, but
I had to learn what happens at each
stage, and how to find the action and
the emotion. It would not have hurt
me if Id had more creative writing
instruction in school.
He recalls that he did pick up
some good creative writing tips, in
high school, but it wasnt until his
college years that, says Gantos, I
really started to understand the
essential tasks of writing and refine
my process. Thats when I began to
get traction. And a considerable
amount of it: Gantos published his
debut book, Rotten Ralph, illus-
trated by his friend Nicole Rubel, in
1976, when he was a college
sophomore.
A true teaching author, Gantos
has taught writing on the college and
graduate levels and has, over more
than three decades, visited 1,000-
plus schools, working with children
and helping educators shape their
writing programs. He took a years
hiatus from fiction writing to distill his teaching and writing experiences into
Writing Radar, which, he says, represents a good part of my lifes work.
Fans will be pleased to learn that the guide is chock-full of Gantosian
add-ons in the form of humor and personal stories. If a book about writing
is strictly mechanical, its not going to engage kids, Gantos says, so he set
out to write a purposeful book, but one that had my personality in it. I think
Writing Radar is a handshake between the two. I hope that kids like me, who
think they are totally clueless about writing, will say, Really? All I have to do
is eavesdrop and learn other peoples business? I can do that!
As he has done so successfully in his own career, Gantos advises young
MEET THE AUTHOR writers to reach inside themselves for inspiration. I try to empower kids by
telling them to write about themselves, in the first person, which will help
ARC signing & giveaway them get both action and emotion, he says. At the end of my school visits, I
always tell kids, One of these days, Im going to walk into a library and see a
Thursday, June 1, 10:30 AM book with your name on the cover, and Im going to read it. And their faces
Other Press booth, #2012 always brighten, realizing that this is, in fact, a real possibility. Sally Lodge
Today, 1011 a.m. Jack Gantos will sign ARCs of Writing Radar, and
give away custom Writing Radar journals in the Autographing Area,
at Table 3.
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Loves the Grid
When Roz Chasts daughter was about to leave the bucolic
Connecticut suburb where she was raised to attend col-
lege in New York City, she asked her mother: Whats a
block? The New Yorker cartoonist and author of the
acclaimed and multiple awardwinning book Cant We Talk
About Something More Pleasant? answered that ques-
tion, and more, in a 16-page guide to New York, chock-full
of essential information delivered with her signature wit.
Four years later, the well-worn booklet was returned to
Mom, and Chasts newest book, Going into Town: A Love
Letter to New York (Bloomsbury, Oct.), was born.
A lot of guidebooks show you places to go and things to
see, says Chast, but they dont tell you basic architecture
about the city. Knowing a handful of important basics
such as Fifth Avenue divides the East Side from the West
Side, and that a cross street is simply the number (or name) of the street love the grid, referring to most of Man-
that intersects the avenue youre on, can make the city much less intimidat- hattan above 14th Street that is neatly
ing to a newcomer, she adds. laid out in numbered streets and ave-
Born and raised in Brooklyn and a resident of the Upper West Side before nues. Within that zone, I dont usually go
departing to the country to accommodate her growing family, Chast still eas- more than a block before I know Ive gone
ily gets lost in her native city because, she says, I have no sense of direction. wrong, she says, but off the gridI
Whatever a sense of direction is, I have the opposite. Thus, she proclaims, I could wind up in Albany. The only thing
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THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2017
that would Like many who put pen to paper, Chast starts and abandons her work over
stop me and over again. Ninety percent of my cartoons get thrown away, she says
is the river. without exaggeration, but notes that theres far less time invested in a car-
Chast isnt toon than a book. I cant think of a cartoon that I worked on for six months
new to the and then had to throw it all in the garbage. However, she is undaunted by
book form per seshe has had several collections of her cartoons pub- the process; shes already at work on her next book, a guide to Brooklyn.
lished but Going into Town is only her sophomore adventure in the narra- Liz Hartman
tive graphic form. The main difference is that the collections are comprised
of separate little entities, she says, while a book such as this demands an Today, 1:302:30 p.m. Roz Chast will sign a limited-run poster from
Going into Town in the Bloomsbury booth (3003).
arc, a story that ties together and not in an arbitrary way.
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Harlequin Branches Out work, with bestselling author David Fisher. Another notable early acquisition
is agent-cum-writer Neil Olsons The Black Painting (Jan. 2018), a literary
with New Imprints mystery involving a stolen work by the artist Francisco de Goya.
Park Row Books, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises Mira Books, is a
line of thought-provoking and voice-driven novels, led by Margaret Marbury,
If you think Harlequin publishes only mass market romance novels, its time vice president, general fiction editorial, and Erika Imranyi, executive editor.
to get in your DeLorean and flash forward. With three new imprintsGray- It launched last month with the debut novel The Improbable
don House Books, Hanover Square Press, and Park Row Booksit now has Flight of Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig, acquired in a sig-
seven different lines. nificant pre-emptive deal.
This is an immensely exciting time at Harlequin, says Craig Swinwood, We are energized by the growth of our trade publishing
publisher and CEO. With three new imprints, we are publishing a range of program, says Loriana Sacilotto, executive vice president,
books in general fiction and narrative nonfiction categories. Our goal is to global publishing. We are able to offer expansive publishing
ensure that these books reach as many readers as possible through our opportunities to authors, as well as an individualized
robust global footprint. author-centric publishing experience that is second to none. Our early wins
Graydon House Books features commercial womens in 2017, such as the instant New York Times bestseller The Orphans Tale
fiction, ranging in tone from lighthearted humor to emo- (Mira) and Ginny Moon, the highly lauded first title from Park Row Books, tell
tional tearjerkers and edgier drama. It is led by Dianne us were moving in the right direction as a home for both celebrated authors
Moggy, vice president, editorial, and Susan Swinwood, and rising stars.
executive editor. One of two launch titles for the new The Harlequin booth will be jam-packed with activities, giveaways, and
Graydon House Books imprint, Something Like Happy signings throughout the day today and tomorrow. Below are a few highlights
(Sept.) by Eva Woods (see tomorrows Show Daily for a of whats available at the booth. Beth Levine
profile of the author), was pre-empted in North America in a two-book, six-fig-
ure deal. The second Graydon House launch title, Best Day Ever (Sept.) by Today, 10:4511:45 a.m. Eva Woods signs AREs of Something Like Happy
at the Harlequin booth 2921).
Kaira Rouda, is a suspenseful tale of deception and betrayal.
Today, 12:301:30 p.m. Neil Olson signs ARCs of The Black Painting.
Hanover Square Press, led by editorial director Peter Joseph, will publish Tomorrow, 10:4511:45 a.m. J.T. Ellison signs ARCs of Lie to Me, and
original general fiction and narrative history, journalism, and memoir, begin- Kaira Rouda signs AREs of Best Day Ever at the booth (2921).
ning in January 2018. Inaugural authors include Dan Abrams, chief legal Tomorrow, 12:301:30 p.m. Eva Woods and Neil Olson again sign
advance copies of their respective books.
analyst for ABC News and host of 60 Days In and Live PD on the A&E net-
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Chronicle Books is Celebrating
50 Years of Seeing Things Differently!
Join us
Thursday, June 1st @ 4:00 PM
BOOTH #1902
Raise a glass and enjoy a scoop of
San Franciscobased Humphry Slocombes
limited edition ice-cream flavor, McEvoys
Chronicles, commemorating Chronicle Books.
GREAT Q&A
GIVEAWAYS J.T. Ellison Changes It Up
at the IVP BOOTH!
the
White
road White
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to SElf-DiScovEry An honest look at what it means to be white
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Cron & Stabile
After nearly two decades of success, J.T. Ellison, the New York Times bestsell-
ian Morgan Cron ing author of more than 15 books and coauthor of the popular A Brit in the
Author of Chasing Francis
DANIEL HILL FBI series with Catherine Coulter, decided she needed a change of scenery.
S u z a n n e S ta b i l e Foreword by Brenda Salter McNeil
Ellison steps away for now from her series characters Lt. Taylor Jackson of
Nashville Homicide and medical examiner Dr. Samantha Owens to take a
Also a book signing with look at the interior lives of ordinary people in Lie to Me (Mira, Sept.). Call it a
Todd E. Outcalt, author domestic noir, if you will, as she chronicles the disintegration of an outwardly
of Seven Deadly Virtues, perfect marriage.
at 9 a.m.
ken wytsma
DA N I E L L E S T R I C K L A N D It is a big departure for me.
Will you be revisiting your Samantha Owens and Taylor Jackson series
Wytsma
What is it about mysteries and thrillers that led you to those genres?
Ive always drifted toward them. I really like how people react to things. I like
to put people in awkward situations and see what they do. Why do people
ivpress.com choose to do bad things? What drives people to make decisions like rob a
bank or kill someone? The psychology fascinates me. Where is a persons
moral compass? Beth Levine
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#421
9:00 AM
Get an advanced reader copy of
A Different Pond,, by poet Bao Phi
and graphic novelist, Thi Bui
TM & DC Comics. (s17)
10:00 AM
Feel the Girl Power!
Michael Dahl signs
Be a Star, Wonder Woman!,
which pubs today!
11:30 AM
The follow-up to bestselling
Too Many Carrots is here.
Grab an ARC!
2:00 PM
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3:30 PM
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BAKER PUBLISHING Q&A
GROUP Neil Olson:
From Both Sides Now
Between Heaven and It all started where most literary
jill schwatzman
the Real World deals are made: lunch. Over a
by Steven Curtis Chapman with Ken Abraham
nosh with Neil Olson, legendary
Five Grammy Awards, 58 Dove Awards, 48 career #1 Donadio & Olson agent to such
radio singles, 11 million records soldbut the music
is only part of his story. luminaries as Mario Puzo and
Robert Stone, the new editorial
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director of Hanover Square Press,
Peter Joseph, asked Olson what
he was working on. Olson took a
deep breath and told Joseph
Taking My Life Back about his own novel he was writ-
by Rebekah Gregory with Anthony Flacco ing, the first in more than a
A spectator at the 2013 Boston Marathon finish line decade. Long story short: on Janu-
shares her moving and inspiring story of how an act of
terrorism changed her life forever.
ary 9, 2018, Hanover Press will
debut The Black Painting, a mys-
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tery concerning the theft of a
priceless paintingone of Goyas
deeply disturbing and dark Black
Paintings. Show Daily spoke with
Neil Olson about how he came to be on the other side of the fence.
Play the Man
by Mark Batterson You surprised Peter Joseph with this book. What was his reaction?
New York Times bestselling author and pastor issues We were talking about our tastes in mysteries and thrillers. We also talked
a biblically based challenge to men, redefining man-
about a book that we loved in which the supernatural is not required to solve
hood and starting a movement of men who put God
first, family second, and career third. the story, but had that kind of mist overlaying it. I thought hed be perfect for
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this book I just wrote. I was going to bring it up at another time, but when he
asked me point-blank at the end of lunch what I was working on, I thought,
okay, this is karma. I sent it, and a week later he said he wanted to buy it.
ISBN 9780801019418 $15.99 February 2017 Your last novel was the well-received The Icon. What drew you back to
writing fiction?
I havent published a novel in 12 years, but I have never stopped writing.
Because I have an unending day job, championing other peoples work, I
dont have a lot of extra time for my own writing. I hadnt given up on the
The Perfect You idea, but its something that is in my bones.
by Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf combines scientific research with What inspired you about Goyas Black Paintings series?
biblical teaching to help readers discover and harness Most of my work seems to involve art history and paintings, because they
their unique thinking pattern that shapes the way they
think, feel, and make choices. lend themselves to the mysterious. I came up with this idea of a painting
that was so terrifying that it would cause death or madness upon viewing.
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Then I thought, who would be the artist who could produce such a painting,
and I remembered Goyas paintings, which I had seen in the Prado in Madrid.
They had a profound effect on me.
Today, starting at 3:30 p.m. The monks of New Skete talk about dog
training on the Author Market Stage (1465), accompanied by their dogs.
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and expertly expanded upon here. If it thought-provoking coming-of-age novel
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ited different worlds. Sasha lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a am a sucker for voice, and I thought how Nic captured Justyces voice was
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of their lives and, as it turns out, rescue their kidnapped siblings, Anne and punk, she says. My mind
Branwell. It is, says Valente, like taking the Bronts to Narnia. immediately went to the gothics and the Bronts. I wrote the short story, and
I grew up with the Bronts, recalls the author, and as the oldest of four, I knew from the minute I put pen to paper that it would be a novel. While the
really overidentified with Charlotte. When she began reading more about Bront children could control the world they created, they arrive in Valentes
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A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to Cuba
A funny thing happened on Katherine Patersons way to a speaking engage- More than half of those brigadistas were
ment in Cuba in 2015: she found inspiration for a new historical novel. In My female, she adds, and about 108,000 were
Brigadista Year (Candlewick, Oct.), the Newbery-winning author and former between the ages of 12 and 18. These volun-
National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature reveals a little-known bit of teers went into rural areas to teach the campesinos to read and write. In
history through the experiences of 13-year-old Lora, a Cuban girl who volun- 2015, as she prepared to visit Cuba to address the issue of literacy, Paterson
teers for Fidel Castros 1961 national literacy campaign in a dangerous polit- notes, I made this campaign the heart of what I was going to say in my speech.
ical climate. The first steps of Loras journey began stateside, however, in Ver- For so many of the women I read about, says Paterson, the campaign they
mont, where Paterson lives. had been part of as teenagers has been a pivotal experience of their lives.
Paterson had been invited to present a talk at an International Board on Theres a favorite quote from one of them that I use in the book: I taught the
Books for Young Peoples conference held in Havana that year. Before her campesinos how to read and write, and they taught me how to be a person.
trip, Paterson ran into her longtime friend Mary Leahy, sister of U.S. Sen. Patersons research on this topic and her travel to the country clearly kicked
Patrick Leahy, who told her how she had modeled her work in adult basic her creativity into high gear after not having worked on a book in several
education in Vermont after the 1961 literacy campaign in Cuba. Shortly after years. I had really not written anything since my husband had died [in 2013].
Fidel Castro came to power, he announced to the U.N. General Assembly that Id had a good run, and I thought Id retired, but then I got excited about
within a years time, Cuba was going to become a literate nation. this,she says. Its one of those books I truly loved writing. Some books are
More than 250,000 Cubans volunteered for the new literacy effort, becom- sort of agony, but this was a pure delight. Shannon Maughan
ing known as brigadistas, or members of the volunteer teaching brigade. The
volunteers lived with the people and learned from the students, just as the Today, 9:3010:30 a.m. Katherine Paterson will sign My Brigadista Year
at a ticketed session in the Autographing Area, at Table 5.
students were learning from them. I was intrigued by that says Paterson.
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including the Newbery Honorwinning The Surrender Tree and other books Margarita Engle Mike Curato
inspired by historical figures, takes a different tack in All the Way to Havana
(Holt/Godwin, Aug.), a contemporary story that follows a Cuban familys car
journey across rural Cuba to the city. The picture book also marks a departure me to have the same experience as the storys characters, and as we drove
for illustrator Mike Curato, creator of the Little Elliot series, who for the first through the countryside, we stopped at farms and talked to folks, and I
time worked in mixed media that integrated acrylic paintings, pencil drawings, took lots of photographs. It was so helpful to get the feel of the countryside,
digital coloring, and photos he took on a weeklong research trip to Cuba in which is so lovely. It was hot and humid, there was no air-conditioning in
September 2015. the car, and the air was filled with diesel fumesbut the authenticity of the
Curato (who, like Engle, credits editor Laura Godwin for proposing the books experience and my excitement about this project far outweighed any
concept) traveled to Cuba with a Spanish-speaking friend who served as inconveniences.
interpreter, and stayed with Engles cousins, who supplement their meager Engle was amazed and thrilled to see Curatos art and its accurate por-
income as doctors with a bed-and-breakfast business in Havana. The illustra- trayal of Cuba and its residents, whose extreme poverty she has witnessed
tor hired a car and driver to traverse the country, mimicking the journey of over the decades on her frequent trips to the country. It was so important
the family featured in the story (but in reverse). to me that the poverty was not masked in the book, she notes. Fronts of
The car was a 1953 Chevythe very car that I featured in the bookand Cuban buildings are painted bright colors to please tourists, while the backs
it had been in the drivers family for years, says Curato. It was important for of the structures, and balconies, are crumbling. And the vintage cars are
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to figure out how to Katherine Applegate
make do and keep
things going, even if it Novel Offers Wishes for a
means using a boat
engine in a car. Theres
Neighborhoodand the World
a remarkable spirit of
perseverancewhich Newbery medalist Katherine Applegates dedication to Wishtree (Feiwel &
is seen in the poor Friends, Sept.) captures the essence of her new middle grade novel: For
everywhere in the newcomers and for welcomers.
worldthat is really The story is narrated by Red, a red oak tree that has welcomed families to
about hope and about never giving up. an immigrant neighborhood for more than two centuries. As the local wish-
The author hopes that All the Way to Havana will engage kids of many ages. tree, to which residents attach wishes theyve written on scraps of cloth, Red
Younger children can read the book as a simple story about a family going has witnessed both the good and bad behavior of many generations. And yet,
on a road trip and reaching out to neighbors, she says, while I hope the he says, two hundred and sixteen rings, and I still havent figured them out.
book gives older children a true sense of Cuba today. Though President When a Muslim family moves in nearby, it becomes evident that not all of
Obama re-established diplomatic relationships with Cuba, which to me was the neighbors are welcomers. Reds role as a wishtree becomes more import-
an amazing symbolic gesture of friendship and hope, there is a very long way ant than ever, and he and his crow friend set out to help residents embrace
to go. The financial embargo hasnt been lifted, and Cubans still cope with their differences.
dire food and fuel shortages. My hope is that this book will help readers feel So many people are filled with frustration about the way things are going
empathy for the people of one of the United States closest neighbors, and in our country, and I wanted to make a small plea for civility, Applegate says
help children believe, as I do, that neighbors should be friends. Sally Lodge about the genesis of the book. I wanted to keep it simple, and came up with
the premise that the word LEAVE would be carved into a beloved community
Today, 9:3010:30 a.m. Mike Curato will sign All the Way to Havana and
tree, and that sentiment would be targeting a newly arrived Muslim family.
prints from his upcoming Little Elliot, Fall Friends in the Autographing
Area, at Table 14. As she was making the final tweaks to her manuscript, Applegate says that
she spotted a newspaper headline directed at a Muslim family in Iowa, with
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Unforgettable
the words, You Can All Go Home. It occurred to me that this is a very frus-
trating case of life imitating art imitating life, she recalls. I want kids to ask,
Why is this happening? Why do people treat others this way? But that is not
an easy question to answer. I know that I am hardly alone feeling so frustrated.
Writing a book is exactly how authors ventilate.
Applegate, who wrote her Newbery Awardwinning The One and Only Ivan
from the perspective of a gorilla, chose to write Wishtree from a trees point
of view because she wanted an outsiders, rather than a humans, perspective.
Theres a tree in my courtyard that I often watch while Im typing on my lap-
top. I see it drop its leaves, and sometimes I notice that it looks tiredand its
become quite a person to me, she says. I think of trees as witnesses, and wise.
Applegate chose a common tree because I wanted kids to be able to say,
Hey, we have one of those trees in their yards or at school, she explains.
Red oaks live for a very long time and are very resilientand that is a char-
acteristic of newcomers. And Ive been thinking lately that we can say the
same thing about our country and democracy. So many of us are relying on
the hope that our country will be resilient.
I wanted to
make a small
plea for
civility.
Macmillan is supporting
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empathy in young readers by
declaring September 28 Nation-
wide Wishing Day. In the spirit of
the nationwide food drive the
publisher launched in fall 2015 in
conjunction with the release of
Crenshaw, and Applegates ongo-
ing campaign to inspire kids to
help fight hunger, this initiative
encourages booksellers, teach-
ers, and librarians to participate
by hosting events to benefit a
local charity devoted to helping
underserved children in their
communities.
Visitors to Macmillans booth
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Nationwide Wishing Day and can write a wish of their own on a leaf-shaped
piece of paper to insert into a blowup of the book cover. For every wish col-
lected, the publisher will donate one book to a child through First Book, a
nonprofit that supplies books to low-income children. Sally Lodge
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Today, 1010:30 a.m. Katherine Applegate will sign ARCs in the Macmillan
booth (3008).
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A Secret Life
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When it was originally published
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The Oliver of the title is a handsome, charismatic childrens book author.
He lives a privileged life in a Dublin suburb until the evening he beats his wife
so viciously that shes left in a coma. In the aftermath, as everyone tries to
make sense of the attack, Oliver begins to tell his story, as do those hes come
in contact with over the past five decades.
Nugent admits to being fascinated by very flawed men. She finds her inspi-
ration for these bad figures in the obituary sections of the Irish Times, Daily
Telegraph, and New York Times. Obituaries are incredibly useful, she says.
The whole Nazi element in the book, as well as a pivotal character, came
about after I read the obituary of the man whod been prefect general of
Color By Number Vichy France.
978-1-5270-0096-4 Novelist is Nugents third career. In her first, as stage manager for the
Paperback $19.99 Irish dance company Riverdance, she toured the world for 15 years. In 2003,
she became an associate writer on the longest-running Irish TV soap opera
Fair City. In writing for soaps, says Nugent, you need to make sure people
will tune in the next day, so you have to leave each episode on a knife edge.
And thats what Ive tried to do with each chapter in Unraveling Oliver.
Nugent took a two-year leave of absence to write the novel. Even after its
success, she returned to Fair City, but she lasted only four months. It felt
A Creative Experience like every day was a day away from [book] writing, she says. Writing days are
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painful muscle spasms. As a result she could no longer use her right hand to
write. Thats why Im such a slow writer and why my novels are short. It costs
me physically to write. But its certainly not right to complain considering all
the writers like Shakespeare and Jane Austen who wrote with one hand and
a feather, she says.
Nugent may be used to spending her life behind the scenes. But shell be in
the foreground for the foreseeable future. Scout will publish her second novel,
Lying in Wait, which was also a #1 bestseller in Ireland, in May 2018.
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Brendan Mathews
Making Life Better Through Industry
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.
Each takes center stage in this complex story.
Set primarily in New York in 1939, the books name comes from the motto
of that years Worlds Fair and its promise that industry would make life bet-
ter after a long economic slump. It was an important year, Mathews says.
It was the end of one era and the beginning of another.
The optimism of the faith that the future would be bright and beautiful and
that everything would work out sets the tone of the novel. Everyone in the
book is chasing one kind of dream or another, or working to make themselves
new, Mathews says. The book explores whether its possible to ever leave
your past behind. There are different answers for each character. The large
cast of characters allowed me to have different answers.
The inspiration for the book came from works by Edward P. Jones, E.L.
Doctorow, and Zadie Smith. The Known World was the star I was shooting
for, a star I knew I would never reach. That book is such a masterpiece. Its
structure is endlessly fascinating. It moves from time to time and character to
character. It has moral reach, Mathews says. Ragtimeits so completely
steeped in a certain era. And White Teeth, you feel London on every single
page of the book. No one makes a walk-on. Everyone has their own time.
The starting point for The World of Tomorrow was Mathewss paternal grand-
father, who immigrated to the U.S. from Ireland as a young man in 1929. He
wanted to become a big-band leader,
but became an upstate carpet dealer
instead. I started thinking,
Mathews says, what if he had stuck
around New York? What if music had
worked out? My grandmother says
he gave it up because he couldnt
make any money at it. But later she
admitted he made money. What if he
hadnt become respectable? In my
novel I gave him brothersand the
scope of the book kept expanding.
The biggest challenge Mathews, a
professor of literature and creative
writing at Bard College at Simons
Rock, faced was finding time to write.
I have four kids, a wife who works,
and a full-time job, he says. But I
couldnt have written it without being a
father. Believing I could do it was also a
big thing. Im 48 years old, and this is my
first novel. Im a slow writer. That stopped
me from starting.
Mathews hopes readers will take away
from his book the realization that peoples
lives are filled with stories. Everyone is a
protagonist, he says. Suzanne Mantell
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AUTHORS various tricks.
Daniel went through several iterations before Benjamin
Chloe Benjamin decided to have him serve in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
I felt this was what he needed to be doing to drive various
Living with Uncertainty themes forward, she explains. A major in the Air Force
was a huge help in nailing the language. It was important
For her sophomore effort, Chloe Benjamin (The Anatomy to capture how people speak in the military and to know
of Dreams, 2014) ponders how knowing when you will die the acronyms, like MEPS [Military Entrance Processing
would alter the way you live. In The Immortalists (Putnam, Station] or UCMJ [Uniform Code of Military Justice].
Jan. 2018), she examines what happens when four sib- Benjamin knew from the beginning that Varya would be
lings receive prophesies about the date of their deaths. a longevity researcher, and she asked experts how they
Ive always been interested in the tension between are hoping to extend healthy lives. I visited a primate
knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, lab and spoke with scientists who are doing various kinds
and the various ways we cope with the unknown, says of longevity research, not just as it pertains to primates. I
Benjamin. Some of those are productive, some can be attempts to pin down also read a lot, which was challenging because much of the material gets
things that are by nature impossible to know. really technical, and I am not a scientist, Benjamin says.
The book follows the lives of the siblings over five decades. The youngest, For anyone with qualms about the future, Benjamin hopes her novel will help
Simon, is gay. He is a dancer in San Francisco in the 1980s at the height of quash anxiety about the unknown. Its a book that explores how to live with
the AIDS crisis. Klara, closest to him in age, is a magician. Next oldest is uncertainty. That has been one of my demons, she says. Its an unbelievable,
Daniel, a military doctor, and the oldest, Varya, is a longevity researcher. absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day
To give her characters lives veracity, Benjamin read texts, watched docu- without knowing which one will be our last.
mentaries, and interviewed experts in relevant fields. It was important to be How to deal with mortality has definitely struck a chord. The Jackal Group
as responsible as possible in portraying cultures, professions, and time peri- bought television rights, and The Immortalists is currently under development
ods that I didnt live through or dont have a background in, she says. To for a cable TV series. Hilary S. Kayle
write about Klara, Benjamin talked to magicians and asked them about the
Today, 1010:45 a.m. Chloe Benjamin appears on the Adult Authors Buzz
role of women in magic. They are still vastly underrepresented, Benjamin
Panel on the Uptown Stage.
says. I also went down the rabbit hole to message boards where magicians Today, 12 p.m. Benjamin will sign galleys at Table 1, in the Penguin
talk to each other. I watched videos online and read texts about how to do Random House booth (1921).
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A.J. Finn Like many writers, Mallory says he was a bookish kid. He aban-
doned the idea of being a writer as a teenager and became a
Pseudonymous Author tion. He discovered that detective fiction has manifested itself in
all sorts of stories, from Bleak House through The Ambassadors to
There are a number of surprising twists to first-time The Talented Mr. Ripley. We dont think of these books as sus-
novelist A.J. Finns psychological thriller, The Woman penseful, but they are. Many, many novels can be said to travel in
in the Window (Morrow, Jan. 2018), which chronicles the tropes of detective novels even if the writers didnt say that that
several weeks in the life of a female psychologist iso- was what they were doing, Mallory says. What excites him is see-
lated in a Manhattan townhouse with a serious case ing how thrillers, like Gone Girl, can attract readers to the genre.
of agoraphobia. Not least of those is the identity of As for writing a thriller, he learned that it could be hard. I
Finnthe pen name for Dan Mallory, v-p and executive thought plotting would prove the tricky part, but that flowed, Mal-
editor at William Morrow. lory says. The actual writing, getting those words on the page, I
In the novel, Anna drinks a lot, spies on her neighbors, had not appreciated the effort it takes, and I came to appreciate
and is certain she has witnessed a murder. Parallels to how effortless many writers make it seem.
Alfred Hitchcocks Rear Window are hard to ignore, On the other hand, writing in first person from Annas point of
but the protagonist here is no James Stewart: shes a view came easily. Contemporary psychological suspense novels
middle-aged woman traumatized by recent events in are usually told from the point of view of a woman, he says. I
her life. Rights to the book have so far sold in 37 terri- thought, if thats what readers want, thats what Id like to do. Im
tories, and a major film is in development at Fox. savvy enough as a publisher not to go against the grain.
Mallory says that he chose a pseudonym in order to Suzanne Mantell
keep his writing separate from his other work. At his
Today, 1010:45 a.m. A.J. Finn will appear at the Adult Author
day job, he is well positioned to understand his chosen
Buzz Panel on the Uptown Stage.
genre; he has edited and published a range of mystery and thriller writers. Today, 11 a.m. Galleys of Finns book will be given away at the HarperCollins
He began his editorial career at Ballantine, then moved to Little, Brown UK, booth (2829).
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Emily Culliton
A Real Steal
Debut novelist Emily Culliton originally planned to write a book about a
disaffected young adult whose mother wasnt in her life. But when she
was creating a plausible backstory for the absentee mom, tales of embez-
zlement flooded the media and her focus changed. In a boxed and starred
review, PW called the resulting book, The Misfortune of Marion Palm
(Knopf, Aug.), a wonderful and sharp novel... [that] signals the arrival of
an exciting talent.
[As] I started thinking about why a mother would leave her daughter, I
didnt want this to be about grief, Culliton says. At the same time, I was
interested in the ways that women commit crimes or transgress. There
were a lot of stories in the news about people who seemed unexceptional Its something shes just good at, too. She adds, Im also interested in the
and were embezzling money from institutions like schools and Little subtlety of embezzlement. It seems to be passive-aggressive.
Leagues. The more I thought about this adult character, I realized this is A Ph.D. candidate in fiction at the University of Denver, Culliton enjoyed
way more interesting than the book I was going to write. And I thought, collaborating with Jenny Jackson, her editor at Knopf. After writing in an
what if the mother embezzled and was caught? Where would she move academic setting, where shes used to hearing criticism from both teachers
from there? and classmates and then has to decide which edits to make, Culliton found
Culliton says that she enjoyed getting into the head of an embezzler and it refreshing to work with a single editor. To have that relationship with one
exploring the motivations of a mom who steals from her daughters private person, where they really know the book, are invested in it, and excited for it,
school, where she helps out part-time in the fund-raising department. was fantastic, she says. Hilary S. Kayle
Marion wants to prove herself, that she is more intelligent and more com-
Today, 1:302:30 p.m. Emily Culliton will sign at the Penguin Random
petent than the people that she works with, Culliton notes. Shes been
House booth (1921).
embezzling this money to save her family, and she takes some pride in that.
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Pamela Paul
List Maker
Today, 1:302 p.m. Pamela Paul will sign at the Macmillan booth (3008,
3009).
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TCG Books differs from Samuel French, another
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featuring top-quality cover design, and, according
to Nemeth, edited a lot more closely with the
writer. Each book looks different, and the authors
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Come meet Bonnie Grubman twice, she was called a justly acclaimed drama-
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and get a copy of her new picture book New York Times.
about recognizing your special talent Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul
sign their musical, Dear Evan Hansen, which has
been nominated for nine Tony Awards. The arm
Friday, June 2: cast worn by Ben Platt and signed by the shows
9:30 AM at Autographing Table 8 cast will be raffled to booksellers. J.T. Rogers signs
copies of the hit Broadway play Oslo, nominated
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Brooke Gladstone ing as a more neutral enabler of an open marketplace where all views are
aired, according to Suzanne Nossel, executive director at PEN America. Pan
Why Reality Broke? elists include Zo Quinn, a video game developer and a central figure in
2014s Gamergate controversy; Patrisse Cullors, a cofounder of Black Lives
When Brooke Gladstone, the cohost (with Bob Garfield) of the popular pod Matter; John Podhoretz, a conservative columnist at the New York Post and
cast On the Media, began working on her new book, The Trouble with Real- the editor of Commentary; and Scott Turow, an author and lawyer.
ity (Workman), her brief was to provide a consolation to readers troubled Daniel Lefferts
by the recent presidential election. I dont think I did, Gladstone says. But
I did provide an explanation, of sorts, and I think thats kind of consoling. Today, 11:30noon. Brooke Gladstone will sign The Trouble with Reality at
the Workman booth (2807).
In the book, Gladstone discusses the ways each of us shapes our own real
Today, 12:301:30 p.m. Gladstone will moderate the panel, PEN America
ity, or allows our reality to be shaped by others, and how we massage facts Presents the First Amendment Resistance, in Room 1E 12/13/14.
or ignore them altogetherin an effort to keep that skewed reality intact.
Touching on the psychology of stereotyping and
the phenomenon of demagoguery, Gladstone
offers a guide to understanding why, during and
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politics. This felt existential. AUTHOR SIGNING & GALLEY GIVEAWAY
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themes by citing a range of writers and thinkers, THURSDAY,
among them Arthur Schopenhauer, Neil Post Paris JUNE 1 @ 1:00 PM
man, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Gladstone says she in the
was surprised by the relevancy of older writings in the Paris Present Tense
to our situation today. Particularly Walter Lipp Present
mann in the 20s and Hannah Arendt in the 50s by mark Helprin
showed me that weve been here before, that this tense
was not unprecedented, and that the republic a novel
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Nicole Krauss
Tackles a New Form
When I write, says Nicole Krauss, Im simply trying to make something I
hope at some point will be whole enough to meet readers. That point has
finally arrived for Krausss fourth novel, Forest Dark (HarperCollins, Sept.)
her first offering since 2010s acclaimed Great Housewhich she says
shes excited to introduce at BookExpo today. After years of trying to craft
something that seems right to me, now the idea of the reader becomes
very real, she says. I want to see what will happen when it goes out into
the world. Thats a great thing, when its not mine anymore.
The light of publication comes after the long tunnel of what Krauss calls the projects all start in much the same
rough, intense, and extreme weeks and months of crafting a work that way: When something gets under my
doesnt follow a linear narrative. Forest Dark follows the separate but paral- skin, she says, if it bothers me enough, it feels like it needs to be attended to
lel lives of a retiree named Jules Epsteinwritten in the third personand a and becomes more and more urgent to write.
character who bears the name of, and some resemblance to, the author her- For Forest Dark, what clearly got under Krausss skin was the concept of
self and is written in the first person. This structure came together without any what, if any, form a novel should follow. Its an idea that plays out in her char-
advance planning; its a method of working that Krauss describes as both acters as well. What form should a life take? she asks. The answer her book
spontaneous but also nerve-wracking. There were many moments when I felt provides, she says, has very much to do with what happens when you break
the book would fail or crumble, she says. with the old and turn toward the unknown.
Not surprisingly, she adds, I feel a tremendous amount of self-inflicted How will readers, old and new, respond? Krauss is eager to find out.
pressure about my own expectations of my work. Adding to this pressure is Lela Nargi
her keen desire to do something different with each work she writes. In fact,
Today, 2:303:30 p.m. Nicole Krauss is signing in the Autographing Area,
shes currently at work on a collection of short stories, a form she relishes
at Table 1.
because its unfamiliar to her, as well as being a challenge. Still, her disparate
Kari Wagner-Peck
Not Always Happy
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Margaret Atwood, who was longlisted for At 19, Adebayo attended a writers workshop in Lagos led by Chimamanda
Hag-Seed. The prize winner will be Ngozi Adichie, which exposed her to new Nigerian authors. There is so
announced next week at an awards cere- much more diversity in Nigerian publishing now than there was in the
mony in London. 1960s, she says. So many more voices are being heard.
In March, Stay with Me was published by At BookExpo, Adebayo says that shes looking forward to seeing how much
Canongate in the U.K.; Ouida Books pub- African fiction is available. Lots has been published on the Continent, and
lished the Nigerian edition in April. The Im interested in seeing the number of African publishers and what they have,
book will also appear in Germany, Italy, Adebayo says. Currently, Adebayo is a senior editor for Saraba, an online lit-
Kenya, Poland, and Sweden. Its amazing erary magazine focused on the work of new African writers. Diane Patrick
to talk to people whove actually read it,
Adebayo says. It got lots of attention. I Today, 1010:45 a.m. Ayobami Adebayo will appear at the Adult Authors
Buzz Panel on the Uptown Stage.
didnt expect this. Its a little bit
Today, 45 p.m. Adebayo will sign in the Penguin Random House booth
overwhelming. (1921), at Table 1.
AUTHORS
Ben Blum
Would-be Army Ranger
Gone Wrong
1:30pm2:30pm
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Lynn Nottage signs her Justin Paul sign multiple Tony Award
Pulitzer Prizewinning play SWEAT nominated musical DEAR EVAN HANSEN
he inexplicably decided to rob a bank along with two other Army Rangers He also interviewed Alex. I had no journalistic experience back then, and
and two men known only to the ringleader, all of them armed. Ben and the was terribly nave about nonfiction, Ben says. I thought Alex would simply
extended Blum clan of successful, educated people were shocked, suddenly tell me what had happened to him, and I would render it into nice sentences.
caught up in what seemed to be a classic American tragedy. But as I began to encounter conflicting information and facts, working
Theres no more American crime than bank robbery, with its antiestablishment together became untenable. He almost abandoned the project, but
spirit and history of flamboyant outlaws, says Ben. Though the ringleader Jonathan Lethem, his writing teacher at NYU, recommended Ben to editor
of this crime was a charismatic Canadian, everyone involved were living out Bill Thomas at Doubleday. This led to a book deal. Ive emerged from [the
American fantasies and encountering the consequences when those fantasies project] with a new appreciation for the power of reckoning honestly with a
came up against reality. Alex accepted a plea deal and told the judge that story, for both the journalist and the subject. Alex and I have learned a lot
he thought the bank robbery was a game, a kind of initiation training exercise from each other and remain good friends. Wendy Werris
to become a U.S. Ranger. Everyone believed him, and Alex served only 16
months in prison. Ben worked to clear his cousins name and planned to Today, 34 p.m. Ben Blum will sign Ranger Games galleys at the Penguin
write Ranger Games with Alexuntil he finally confessed to lying to the Random House booth (1921).
family, Ben learned. Alex had willingly agreed to
rob the bank after becoming enthralled by a senior
Ranger, Specialist Luke Sommer, with dual U.S.-
Canadian citizenship, a dynamic cultlike figure who What Would Happen If George W. Bush
Were Prosecuted for War Crimes?
conceived of, planned, and carried out the crime.
We were all deceived by Alex.
Shocking events tend to look more predictable
in retrospect, Ben adds, and Alexs involvement
in the bank robbery is no exception. After spending MEET AUTHOR
years thinking about his story, I can see faint
threads of causality going back not just to
Alexs character, but to our familys character. TERRY JASTROW
The cousins grandfather served in WWII and
witnessed the devastation at Normandy. The
AT HIS
image of war that filtered down to Alex included
a dangerous edge of romantic lawlessness to it,
BOOK SIGNING
Ben recalls.
Still, I think the most important factor is that
he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,
Ben says. He might well have become a great
soldier rather than a felon if he had never come
Thursday, June 1
into contact with Specialist Sommer. While 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
writing the book, Ben interviewed Sommer in at Table #6
prison, where he remains. In addition, Ben talked
to some of the bank employees on duty that day,
and others connected to the robbery.
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Robert Kiyosaki Is Even night success! As I walked off the stage, Oprah
looked at me and said, Hey, rich dad, I just sold a
Richer 20 Years Later billion copies of your book! So I said, Thank
you!
At age nine, after being taught how to play Monopoly, Robert Kiyosaki knew Six years later, he collaborated with Donald
he was going to be wealthy. Author of the Rich Dad Poor Dad books and Trump on Why We Want You to Be Rich, and in
founder of the financial education company Rich Dad, Kiyosaki, as a young 2011, Midas Touch. Were both real estate
adult, attended seminars led by the visionary Buckminster Fuller. Fullers guys, and we got together as teachers who
1983 posthumously published book, The Grunch of Giants, altered the encourage financial education outside the school
course of Kiyosakis life. This was one of his first books on the economy, he system, says Kiyosaki. The first book was about
says, that was in my strike zone, which I understood. When he wrote about the demise of the middle class, the second about
GRUNCH, an acronym that stands for Gross Universal Cash Heisthow the entrepreneurship. A third book with Trump was
ultra rich were ripping off the world through our monetary systemI could quashed by his presidential campaign. Asked if that book will happen,
see the economic crisis coming, so I decided that Id better say something Kiyosaki chuckles and says, It depends on how many years hes president.
about it. Thats why in 1996, I created the Cash Flow board game, and in What began as a self-published book with a first printing of 1,000 has
1997 wrote a brochure to help sell the game. grown into an empire. The Rich Dad, Poor Dad series of books, now pub-
That brochure became his first book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Kiyosaki shopped lished by Plata Publishing, has global sales of more than 35 million (see
it around to different publishers, but no one was interested, he says. The book sidebar). Mona Gambetta, director of Global Publishing for Plata, cites three
was so radical because I said savers are losers; your house is not an asset; reasons for his continuing success. Its the right message, to take control of
and the rich dont work for money. Those three comments are what kicked us your life. Robert is a fearless advocate of financial literacy and financial edu-
out of the publishing industry. They said, You dont have any idea what youre cation. And its the right time. Twenty years ago, it was a fertile field for this
talking about. message, and today the need is greater. The world is moving faster; every-
So he self-published it in 1997, and it hit the New York Times bestseller list thing about what used to be job security is changing. Its becoming more and
in 2000, which caught the attention of Oprah Winfrey, who wanted him on her more important to have some personal sovereignty tied to your finances.
show. That invitation gave the final push to a handshake deal with Rick Wolff, Kiyosaki is at BookExpo to promote a 20th anniversary edition of Rich Dad
at Warner Books at the time. Warner printed 400,000 copies of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, with an update and study guides, as well as a new book just out in
Poor Dad in the few weeks before his Oprah appearance. Kiyosaki says, I May called Why the Rich Are Getting Richer. The publishing world has been
was the only guest for an hour, and, as they say, my life changed. An over- very good to me, considering Im not an author, Im a real estate investor. For
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Coming of Age in Mississippi
sonably sized company, so clients wont get lost. We have our own customer Jesmyn Ward is a BookExpo veteran, who has attended the show multiple
service teamsanyone whos phoning up, whether its a trade account or a times, in connection with her bestselling titles Salvage the Bones (Blooms-
private customer, will be talking to the same people, the people who know bury), which won the 2011 National Book Award, and her memoir, Men We
and understand their books. Reaped (Bloomsbury, 2013), which was a finalist for the National Book
Casemate takes special care to reach out to new audiences. We just signed Critics Circle Award. Last year, she
Spink books, a leading numismatic publisher, says Drinkwater, So we are edited a collection of poems and essays,
talking with numismatic societies around the world to see if they would be The Fire This Time: A New Generation
interested in those books. We also recently signed Fernhurst Books, a suc- Speaks About Race (Scribner, 2016).
cessful British publisher doing a number of books on sailing, yachting, div- She is returning for Sing, Unburied,
ing, swimming. There are a number of nontraditional opportunities we see Sing (Scribner, Sept.), her third novel,
out front of the standard bookshops, key wholesalers, such as a company and this morning will speak at the
called Paradise Key, that works with a number of yachting and boating out- Adult Book & Author Breakfast.
lets. Were trying to see whether they would want to sell their books there. Ward describes Sing, Unburied,
Here at BookExpo, Casemate Group (booth 1821) hopes to expand its Sing as a cross between a road trip
business. Were always looking for new opportunities for companies that and a ghost story. It follows 19-year-
are reviewing their distribution arrangements and want to see whos offering old Jojo, his toddler sister, Kayla,
what. We can give potential clients a fairly unique offering because when along with their drug-addicted
somebodys working with us, they know up front what its going to cost. We mother, Leonie, as they travel by car
dont charge them to put books in the catalogue, we dont charge them for from their farm on the Gulf Coast of
returns, the kind of things that nearly all of the others do. We find thats a Mississippi across the state to pick
good way to have a straightforward simple relationship. The American up their white father on his release
dream, indeed. Hilary S. Kayle from prison. Theyre heading north,
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place where that history is weighted so much? Also, Leonie is failing her
childrenher father is raising her kids because she cant. What does it mean
to be a mother? How, once we age, do we forgive ourselves for what we did
in our youth?
As with Salvage the Bones, Ward says, the Jojo character visited her.
As a writer, I discover character first. These characters pop into my head.
With Salvage, a 15-year-old girl started talking to me. Here, this 13-year-old
boy popped into my head and started talking. I could see himhe had curly
black hair, and was at that stage, growing out of his childhood body, feeling
awkward. I wanted to write about Jojo because I was curious what it was like
for a preteen to come of age in the contemporary South.
Ward, who since 2014 has been a tenured associate professor of writing at
Tulane University in New Orleans, is also the mother of two young children.
I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my under-
standing of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work,
she says. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties
that come along with it.
As for todays breakfast, Ward admits to being the most in awe of Stephen
King, because hes had such a long career and his writing runs across many
Ward explains, but to the reader its almost as if theyre traveling back in genres, she says. But if I could chat with anyone, it would be Claire Messud,
time. Jojo and Kayla live with their grandparents, Pap and Mam. Pap is because I think she could tell me how to get better as a writer as I age.
trying to teach Jojo to be a man while running the household and caring for Diane Patrick
Mam, who is terminally ill.
Today, 89:30 a.m. Jesmyn Ward will appear at the Adult Book & Author
For Ward, who was born and raised in rural DeLisle, Miss., her birthplace
Breakfast, in the Special Events Hall.
is always an essential character in her writing. With Sing, Unburied, Sing, she Today, 1011 a.m. Ward will sign at the ABA Members Lounge booth
says, One question Im trying to answer is, what does it mean to live in the (721).
New South, this place where history bears so strongly on the present, but Today, 22:45 p.m., Ward will sign at the Simon & Schuster booth
(2620, 2621).
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Its hard to believe that fashion designer Zac Posen, a judge on Project
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his New York apartment, but he does. Posen even takes snapshots about processproportion, construction, and the perfect
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teenager, has led to Cooking with Zac: Recipes from Rustic
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Welcome to PWs 2017 BookExpo Title Showcase, a new feature launched earlier this year. On the next few pages, you
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The reader is informed through In this uplifting narrative, An entertaining and thought-
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of mankind in the conquest of Have a Purpose celebrates the former Soviet Union. Prepare
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Bessemer, AL, struggling head when turned, changing ficer appointment, members of
to make sense of the divides harmless and lifeless objects the San Diego Department of
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Sense of Touch: Love and Duty The Place where the Giant Fell When Brothers Meet
at Anne of Brittanys Court
A romance and an interest- Carrie Ann Benton and Rod- In the interest of world peace...
ing novel about a little-known ney Buchard, a Mexican, are That is the pretense for a
French queen. A striking story in love. Her father, a powerful meeting between America and
of heartache and forbidden and evil Arizona judge hates a coalition of China, Russia,
love, of women in the 15th cen- Mexicans and plans Rodneys India, and Saudi Arabia. But
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France, 1510. A forged accusa- Gary E. Miller has spent a May 23, 1992: Diego Scarcella
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wealthy family Werck leads a and indulging in his curiosity Giovanni Falcone is assassinat-
beautiful and humble woman of it. Reflections is a stunning ed on the Sicilian coast. When
to be sentenced and burned at new collection of his poetry Diegos father suddenly dies,
the stake by the Inquisition. reflections of his wide-ranging his estranged brother Giovanni
Her immortal spirit unravels, travels, observations, and reappears and the two must
starting a supernatural battle general musings. find a way to coexist.
between love and hate.
This book evaluates the presi- A collection of 20 profiles of Drawing inspiration from the
dency of Barack Obama, the fascinating men (Robert Penn epic Apollo Moon Program,
first non-white in history elect- Warren, Harrison Ford, Gregg this book outlines the small
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white nation. Seismic and epic, written over a 40-year period in everyday life. With the
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Skyward Bound captures With her passion for medieval When miniature poodle
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