Day
3
A L L T H E B U Z Z
Literary Fiction
Makes a Comeback
By Louisa Ermelino
If there’s one person you
want to ask about books, it’s
Paul Yamazaki, head buyer
at City Lights bookstore in
San Francisco. He’s talking
about Jeff Eugenides’s new
novel, The Marriage Plot, but
he is also touting what he
called “a sleeper” on FSG’s
list, The Barbarian Nurseries
by L.A. Times columnist
Hector Tobar. While
Yamazaki concedes it’s not
really his personal type of
book, he’s convinced that
“it’s going to work for a lot of
readers. It’s a great book
about race and class in
Southern California. It’s
exhilarating, moving, and
beautifully written.”
Yamazaki, always the cham-
pion of good books, brimmed
with enthusiasm about the
revived state of the book
business. “Fiction in hard-
cover is back!” he says.
Lanora Haradon, owner of
Next Chapter Books in
Mequon, Wis., thinks that
Crown’s “geek” novel, Ready
Player One by Ernest Cline,
“is fabulous, especially for
people who’ve grown up in
the ’80s.” As for Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
(Doubleday), a Buzz Panel
book, she is over the moon:
“This novel is going to be big-
ger than The Time Traveler’s
Wife. It’s going to be bigger
than The Secret Life of Bees!”
Roxanne Coady of R.J. Julia
Booksellers in Madison,
Conn., also calls it a winner,
along with Turn of Mind
(Atlantic Monthly) by Alice
LaPlante, which deals with
dementia and murder.
Coady says LaPlante’s novel
is “the most endearing story
I’ve seen in a long time.”
Coady is almost done read-
ing Alice Hoffman’s The
Dovekeepers (Scribner),
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about the mass suicide of a
splinter group of Jews at
Masada in the first century.
“I’m loving it,” she says.
Julie Stavinsky, events
coordinator for Warwick’s in
La Jolla, Calif., talked up
Ballantine’s The Language of
Flowers by Vanessa
Diffenbaugh. “She did a ter-
rific job of mixing social
issues and the language of
flowers.” Stavinsky also likes
Rules of Civility by Amor
Towles (Penguin). “It’s set in
1938 New York City and it’s
very Gatsbyish. The author
did a tremendous job of re-
creating the era.”
Matt Norcross, co-owner,
McLean & Eakin, Petoskey,
Mich., is also excited about
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player
One, but reserves his great-
A M E R I C A
est compliment for State of
Wonder by Ann Patchett
(Harper). “It’s totally going to
blow everyone away.”
“There are three things
I’ve read that stick in my
mind,” says Bill Cusumano,
book buyer at Nicola’s Books
in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Cusumano adds to the con-
sensus with Night Circus and
The Dovekeepers. His third
pick, though, When She
Woke by Hillary Jordan,
which Algonquin has been
very hot on, has been a BEA
hit. “It’s a futuristic thing,”
Cusumano says, “with The
Scarlet Letter theme but in
the future. It’s powerful.”
And the cover is a knockout.
“What I love about BEA,”
says William McCully, of the
Prospect Heights Public
Learn more at Medallion Press booth #2738
Library District in Illinois, “is
that there are always sur-
prises, like Running the Rift
by Naomi Benaron
(Algonquin),” winner of the
Bellwether Prize, about a
young Rwandan boy running
to save his life. “This is one of
my favorites, along with The
Swerve: How the World
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Became Modern by Stephen
Greenblatt (Norton), the
story of a manuscript discov-
ered 600 years ago that
fueled the Renaissance.”
Roberta Rubin, owner of
the Bookstall at Chestnut
Court, in Winnetka, Ill.,
raved about the latest by
Tony Horwitz. His Midnight
Rising (Holt) is a tale about
John Brown and the raid on
Harper’s Ferry. Horwitz “isn’t
a historian, he’s a story-
teller,” she says. “He really
nails the story, and the
research that went into it is
impeccable. And he has such
a sense of humor.”
Chris Rose, a bookseller at
Andover Books in Andover,
Mass., is jazzed about The
Shooting Salvationist: J.
Frank Norris and the Murder
Trial That Captivated
America by David R. Stokes
(Steerforth). He calls it
“enthralling” and a “skillful
presentation of a shocking
crime. The story is simply
incredible and every word of
it is true.” Readers won’t be
able to put it down, he says.
While the booksellers still
make books and are the
go-to folks for the next big
thing, there were books at
the show that caught our
fancy in the mystery and
thriller category, where ice
and snow continue to take
center stage. Minotaur is
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Highlights
of the day
MEETINGS AND EVENTS
8–9:30 a.m. Adult Book and Author Breakfast: Roger Ebert, Anne Enright,
Take a journey through the
and Erik Larson, with Jim Lehrer as emcee
“mime’s eye” for a silent but  
humorous look at pop culture 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Exhibit Hall
and our world in the unspoken  
9 a.m.–3 p.m. International Rights & Business center
words of a mime.
 
9–11 a.m. Big Ideas at BEA Conference (3 panels): “Seven Years of Google
Book Search: The Next Chapter” (9–10:30 a.m., room 1E15); “From
Writer to Reader” (10–11 a.m., room 1E16); and “How E-Books Will
Save the Book: Putting Storytelling and Creation at the Center of
Publishing” (10–1 a.m., room 1E14)
 
10 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Insight Stages (six events) beginning with Insight Stage
Signature Event with Jane Lynch (Jane Fonda will also do an Insight
Stage Signature, at 1:30 p.m., both on the Midtown Stage) and ending
with “African-American Books in an E-Book World” (noon, Uptown
Stage). There is also a Middle-Grade Buzz with Fantasy Authors at
noon (Midtown Stage)

10:30 a.m. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: BEA event director Steve Rosato

will be announcing Russia as the 2012 Global Market Forum featured
country, with Vladimir Grigoriev, deputy director for the Russian
offices of press and mass communication. They will share details on
the “ambitious program” that is beginning to take shape (BEA Press
Office, 4E Terrace)

Mime Very Own Book will leave you speechless as

mime Doug Jones, photographer Eric Curtis, and
authors Scott Allen Perry and Adam Mock offer
a hilarious visual smorgasbord of some of life’s
most awkward moments. It’s an eclectic mix
of pop culture, social commentary, and
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parodied fairy tale favorites.

Duff McKagan and Alice Hoffman — ­ two of the more than 750 authors
signing, speaking, and engaging BEA conventioneers.

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Blio Is in the DemoZone Bountiful Fall for
Children’s Books
Baker & Taylor is drawing great traf-
fic to its Blio DemoZone, a kiosk in the
B&T booth (2724), offering live demos
of the Blio e-reading software on virtu-
ally any device you can think of.
Developed by technologist Ray
Kurzweil, founder of KNFB Reaching
Technology, Blio e-reading software is
designed to reproduce full-color, mul-
timedia content and allow consumers
to synch their feature-rich e-book
content across multiple devices.
B&T has partnered with Blio, rolling
out the software for a variety of soft-
ware platforms as well as setting up
agreements to include Blio on Dell,
Windows 7, HP, Toshiba, Samsung,
and other devices. B&T is also work-
ing to create new retail channels for
physical books and e-books in part-
nerships with Dell, Toshiba, and other
device manufacturers, setting up the
infrastructure and handling the fulfill-
ment. Blio has been released for
Windows desktops and for some
Sharjah Offers Translation $$
The Sharjah International Book Fair
is allocating $300,000 in grants to
assist publishers in signing English-
Arabic rights deals at the Sharjah
International Book Fair in
November. Ahmed Al Amri, director
of the fair, will be donating $1,000 per
deal signed at the fair to reduce the
overhead for any publisher who
wants to have its book in Arabic. The
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hoping to channel Stieg Larsson with
Icelandic author Arnaldur
Indridason, who takes a break from
his crime series with Operation
Napoleon, in which the crash of a
German airplane in Iceland in the
waning days of WWII has serious
present-day repercussions. Soho
Crime’s got The Boy in the Suitcase
by Danish authors Lene Kaaberbol
and Agnete Friis, with a Red Cross
nurse protagonist who helps a small
boy.
Debuts capturing the imagination
at the show are Sleight, a first novel
by poet Kirsten Kaschock about per-
formance artist sisters and a mass
murder. Little, Brown is high on
American Dervish, a novel about an
American Muslim family by Ayad
Akhtar, and The Art of Fielding by
Chad Harbach, which was a Buzz
Panel book and has been talked
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mobile phone platforms.
Bob Nelson, president of B&T’s digi-
tal group, says that Blio will be
released for Android operating sys-
tem, downloadable from the Android
Market, in the next 30–60 days. Blio for
Android phones supported by
T-Mobile is already available for
phones from LG, HTC, and Samsung.
Blio will be included on HP WebOS
devices—including the company’s
new touchscreen monitors as well as
the forthcoming HP WebOS tablet.
And by late summer, look for the much
anticipated Toshiba tablet with the
Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” optimized
for tablet devices. Nelson says the
company is waiting to hear from Apple
about Blio for iOS4 (iPhone, iPad, and
Mac desk and laptops), which has
been submitted for approval, to look
for an updated user interface for the
Blio bookstore by July.
Ralph Lazaro, B&T director of prod-
uct management, says the demoZone
was a crowd pleaser on the BEA floor.
“You see something like this at the
Consumer Electronic Show all the
time,” he says, “but it’s different for
BEA.” Lazaro says Blio will have
upwards of three million titles in addi-
tion to a projected 300,000 or more for-
pay titles. Blio/B&T were showing a
full range of Disney titles, complete
with audio tracks and much else.
“We’ve got the b&w prose stuff, but
we’ve also got e-books with gorgeous
visual content that no one else has,
and it’s going to bring us a lot of new
readers.” —Calvin Reid
grants also apply to books that are to
be translated from Arabic to English.
“It’s our 30th anniversary this year,
and I want to support all the publish-
ers that will be attending,” says Al
Amri. “Last year, $43 million in busi-
ness was achieved during the fair
with 500,000 visitors. We intend to
make the 30th anniversary a stun-
ning event.”
about in the same breath as J.D.
Salinger (and it’s about baseball).
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has We
the Animals, a poetic coming-of-age
powerhouse by Justin Torres.
Finally, one book whose buzz
began a week ago when its .pdfs went
viral, the wildly titled Go the F*** to
Sleep by Adam Mansbach, illus. by
Ricardo Cortés, from Akashic Books,
is still going strong. Consortium pres-
ident Julie Schaper reports that
there are 225,000 copies in print, the
pub date has been moved up to mid-
June, and almost all the copies are
“spoken for.” Dave Mallman, a book-
seller at the Next Chapter, called it a
“stroke of genius that irreverently
expresses the frustrations all parents
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face when dealing with our beloved
but exasperating children.” —Louisa
Ermelino, with reporting by Claire
Kirch and Judith Rosen
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There’s no shortage of big-name
children’s authors on the floor this
year, and plenty of children’s book
news. The book with the biggest
“wow” factor may be The Chronicles
of Harris Burdick, a collection of
short stories based on Chris Van
Allburg’s illustrations for his 1984
picture book, The Mysteries of Harris
Burdick. It features some of the most
luminous names in children’s and
adult books, including Stephen King,
Lemony Snicket, Sherman Alexie,
Kate DiCamillo, Jules Feiffer, and
Van Allsburg himself; first printing is
250,000, for an October 25 laydown.
Elsewhere on the fiction front,
Random House’s biggest fall title is
Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance,
which arrives November 8 with a 2.5
million–copy first printing. Other big
fiction titles include Tyra Banks’s
Modelland (Sept.) and Lauren Kate’s
Passion (June); Paolini, Banks, and
Kate all joined Random House’s cav-
alcade of authors at Tuesday night’s
party aboard the Intrepid.
Scholastic gave out 2,000 galleys
for Brian Selznick’s Wonderstruck,
which will have a 500,000-copy first
Cartoonist Shannon
Wheeler interviewed
“New Yorker” cartoonist
Roz Chast about her
upcoming Bloomsbury
title, “What I Hate:
From A to Z.”
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printing and a September 13 lay-
down date; also highlighted are two
by Maggie Stiefvater: The Scorpio
Races, a stand-alone, and Forever,
the last in the Shiver trilogy, for
which she’ll tour this fall.
Attendees also snatched up 1,000
copies of Laini Taylor’s Daughter of
Smoke and Bone, first in a trilogy for
Little, Brown; her editor, Alvina Ling,
was on the YA Buzz Panel, and “peo-
ple really responded to it,” says dep-
uty publisher Andrew Smith. LBYR
will print 250,000 copies for a
September 27 laydown.
Penguin had an enormous line for
Ally Condie, who signed galleys of
Crossed (Nov. 1), follow-up to her
bestselling Matched. Penguin also
gave out galleys for The Future of Us
by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler;
laydown date is November 21, and
film rights have just been optioned to
Warner Bros.
The big news at Candlewick was
the upcoming Judy Moody movie, as
well as two novels: The Flint Heart by
Katherine and John Paterson, illus.
by John Rocco (Sept.), and A Monster
Calls by Patrick Ness (Sept.), which
Susan Orlean (above) signed galleys of her
much anticipated biography of the canine
hero and star “Rin Tin Tin” (Simon &
Schuster, Oct.)
(At right) Billie Holiday channeler Joey
Arias and actress Dee Wallace (author of
“Bright Light,” O Books) at the “PW”
bash on Tuesday night at Crimson.
Only at BEA: Margaret Atwood (below)
makes a new pal at the show—Olivia, star
of Ian Falconer’s picture books.
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was based on an idea by the late
author Siobhan Dowd.
Macmillan had several high-pro-
file novels, including The Fox
Inheritance by Mary Pearson (Aug.),
Gabrielle Zevin’s All These Things
I’ve Done (Sept.), and Jack Gantos’s
Dead End in Norvelt (Sept.).
Decemberists frontman Colin
Meloy begins a middle-grade fantasy
series with HarperCollins:
Wildwood, illus. by Carson Ellis, with
an August 30 pub date. And debut
author Tahereh Mafi got a boost for
her dystopian thriller, Shatter Me,
by her appearance at Tuesday’s
speed-dating event; it pubs on
November 15.
A sequel to Tom Angleberger’s The
Strange Case of Origami Yoda,
called Darth Paper Strikes Back, will
have a 300,000-copy first printing for
an August 23 laydown. And two big
sequels for Disney-Hyperion are The
Son of Neptune, book two in the
Heroes of Olympus series by Rick
Riordan (Oct. 4 laydown), and The
Bridge to Never Land by Ridley
Pearson and Dave Barry, a compan-
ion to Peter and the Starcatchers
(Aug. 9 laydown).
Flux ventures into sci-fi for teens
with debut author Scott Tracey,
whose book Witch Eyes centers on a
gay male protagonist with a powerful
Michael Moore at the
Uptown Stage discussed
his untitled “anti-
memoir,” a collection of
stories from his life, many
of them about accidental
encounters with
celebrities and history
(Grand Central, Sept.).
PUBL I SHERS
gift of second sight. Tracey signed
books on Tuesday, and according to
Steven Pomije at Flux, galleys ran
out within 30 minutes. Pomije attri-
butes some of the buzz to the author’s
online networking: “He’s been on top
of that from day one. “
Another book credited with blog
buzz is The Unbecoming of Mara
Dyer, a first novel by Michelle Hodkin
due from Simon & Schuster in
August. “Everyone asks about it,
more than any other book,” says Paul
Crichton, crediting the curiosity to
YA blogger coverage.
Justin Heimberg, author and chief
creative officer for Seven Footer
Press, will be launching a new series
that he describes as a mix of “Harry
Potter with ghost hunters and some
39 Clues thrown in.” The series uses
the patented MagicView technology,
which enables readers to use a
viewer to reveal clues throughout
the story.
William Joyce’s Guardians of
Childhood series for S&S kicks off
with the picture book The Man in the
Moon and a middle-grade novel,
Nicholas St. North and the Battle of
the Nightmare King, this fall, with
subsequent books (and a movie) to
follow in 2012.
For Chronicle, Cedella Marley has
adapted One Love, a song by her
YA author Bill
Willingham told of having
to add a new character
to “Down the Mysterly
River,” at his agent’s
suggestion. He spoke to
“Comics Beat” editor-in-
chief and “PW” reviews
editor Heidi McDonald on
the Midtown Stage.
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father, reggae musician Bob Marley,
into a picture book, illus. by Vanessa
Brantley-Newton and due in
September. Songstress Lisa Loeb will
make her picture book debut with
Lisa Loeb’s Silly Sing-Along: The
Disappointing Pancake and Other
Zany Songs (Sterling, Oct.), illus. by
Ryan O’Rourke; it comes with a
recording of Loeb singing the songs.
At Charlesbridge, the biggest fall
book is from its Imagine! imprint: a
new Peter Yarrow Books title, When
You Wish upon a Star, performed on
an accompanying CD by Judy Collins
and illus. by Eric Puybaret. Imagine’s
founder, Charles Nurnberg, says the
first printing will exceed 100,000
copies.
It’s the 80th anniversary of Babar,
and Abrams has Babar’s Celesteville
Games by Laurent de Brunhoff
(100,000 first printing; Aug.).
Lemniscaat USA’s biggest book for
fall is a picture book, Tom the Tamer
by Tjibbe Veldkamp, illus. by Philip
Hopman (Oct.); Judy Schachner will
be blurbing the book.
Marshall Cavendish announced its
new Shofar Books imprint, a line of
Jewish children’s books being done
in partnership with the PJ Library.
The imprint, edited by editor-at-
large Melanie Kroupa, will launch in
October with three books.
Oprah on
TV!
The Abrams booth at BEA features
a number of forthcoming titles with
proven track records and built-in
audiences—including a new Good
Eats book from bestseller Alton
Brown, a book of Harper’s Bazaar’s:
Greatest Hits, and a new Wimpy Kid
book—but none has proven as popu-
lar as Oprah Winfrey, who chose
Abrams to publish the official look
back at her show, which ended its
run yesterday after 25 seasons.
Though Winfrey was not on hand,
Abrams beamed in the final episode
at 4 p.m. yesterday on a 40-inch TV
bought solely for the purpose, and
toasted the daytime star’s swan song
with champagne.
“It’s one of the biggest books we’ve
ever done,” said Abrams CEO and
president, Michael Jacobs, speaking
with Show Daily from the cushy
Abrams booth (3552). “We started
talking about it the first of the year,
and started selling it two months
ago.” The response among booksell-
ers, Jacobs reports, has been “really
positive,” both with nationwide
chains and independents. An initial
print run of 500,000 has been
announced, but Jacobs expects that
figure will change before the mid-
October laydown date, once they
have a better idea about demand.
Titled The Oprah Winfrey Show:
Reflections on an American Legacy,
the book came to Abrams last
August following a publisher hunt by
Oprah’s company, Harpo Inc. Jacobs
says that Abrams was the answer to
Harpo’s two biggest questions: “Who
can make a beautiful book? And who
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American Girl is introducing two
historical characters whose lives are
woven together in one six-book
series set in 1853 New Orleans. The
two girls come from different class
and racial backgrounds: Cécile Rey
is a girl from a well-to-do family of
color, and Marie-Grace Gardner is
from a white family that has recently
moved to the city. The books and
companion dolls go on sale in
September.
Albert Whitman is starting a YA
imprint this fall, Albert Whitman
Teen, kicking off with two debut nov-
els—Guantánamo Boy by Anna
Perera and The Poisoned House by
Michael Ford, both of which arrive in
August.
Boyds Mills, celebrating its 20th
anniversary, will launch its
Highlights Press imprint in spring
2012, though books will begin arriv-
ing in the fall. Kingfisher announced
a partnership with Animal Planet for
a line of books, starting with five titles
in September. Kingfisher is also
launching a historical series,
All About America, which began
in June.
See next week’s Children’s
Bookshelf for news of many more big
books of the show.  —Diane Roback
with reporting by John Sellers,
Matia Burnett, and Joy Bean
can make a smart book?” The
Abrams team won over Harpo with a
sharp proposal from editorial direc-
tor Deborah Aaronson, an aggres-
sive marketing plan, and some of
Abrams’s best work (Jacobs points to
Vogue: Portraits as an example used
to win over Harpo).
Aaronson, who spoke by phone
with Show Daily from the Abrams
offices, says the book is organized by
theme, consisting of eight chapters,
each of which “focuses on a different
area of culture where the show has
really affected the conversation.”
Some 25 of Oprah’s prominent
friends and guests will contribute
essays to go alongside the narrative
text by Deborah Davis. Images will be
culled from still photos taken on the
set and behind the scenes, and shots
from off-site events, such as Winfrey’s
trip to Australia.  —Marc Schultz
CORRECTIONS: We
inadvertently credited Philip
Turner’s ABA/BEA memory
(Show Daily, Day 1, p. 93) to his
brother, Joel, who died almost
two years ago.
And the Joe Finder interview
(also Day 1, p. 48) was done by
Wendy Werris.
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Not Four of Kind
Wednesday’s breakfast was a terrific
mashup of personalities, with four
authors who strive for different audi-
ences acknowledging one shared
trait: a most serious love of reading.
Mindy Kaling, who plays the self-
centered and predatory Kelly on the
hit show The Office, served as emcee.
She announced that she was at BEA
“to talk about who will be the next boss
on The Office,” and that her book is
“the first in a series of seven that will
extend over 30 years and end on a cliff-
hanger. Just kidding!” In fact, her
book, Is Everyone Hanging Out
Without Me? (Crown, Nov.), is “a series
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of short comic essays
somewhere between
Tina Fey, who has no
apparent vices, and
Chelsea Handler, who
has every one imagin-
able.” In a more serious
vein, Kaling, who
attended Dartmouth,
Breakfast lineup: Mindy Kaling, Jeffrey Eugenides, Charlene Harris, and Diane Keaton
spoke about her child-
hood in Cambridge, Mass., when her
father would drop her off at the library
every day with a reading list, pick her
up at the end of the day, and ask for a
book report every week.
After being introduced by Kaling
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as “the pinup girl for bookish sorts of
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book is sad.” Indeed, Keaton was
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cussed her love for
both her mother and
father, Jack Hall, and
how her mother’s
“ordinary life” was
such an inspiration to her. In particu-
lar, Keaton spoke of her mother’s
lifetime of writing, which over the
years chronicled daily life, then the
death of her husband (“the document
of Dad’s passing was her finest
work”) to her Alzheimer’s stage,
where paragraphs became sen-
tences, then words, then numbers,
“before silence.” Keaton said that
with Then Again, “I have written not
my memoir, but ours.”
Kaling stepped back to the podium
and described the next author,
Jeffrey Eugenides, as “a literary
canary in my sexual coal mine,
because if a guy has Middlesex on his
shelf, then he’s probably okay.”
Eugenides’s forthcoming book was
much the buzz at the show despite
there being no galley (“I just finished
the book—yesterday,” he said); he
noted, “I became a novelist because I
never wanted to be up this early.” He
then launched into a rambling but
fascinating explanation of the new
book’s genesis. “I’d been working
quietly on a novel for two years that
was to end in a big debutante ball in
Grosse Pointe, Mich.,” he said.
“Then, at Princeton, I decided to tell
Edmund White what I was working
on. Ed said, ‘Don’t do that.’ And Ed
has been there.” What Eugenides did
was reapproach the story and
quickly found himself with “150
pages” about a minor character, a
young college student with literary
ambitions. And that developed into
The Marriage Plot (FSG, Oct.). He
then went on to discuss how “mar-
riage plots” are what 19th-century
novels were all about, and he was
interested in how a marriage plot
would function two centuries later,
with different standards and mores.
“Pre-nups would have ruined Henry
James,” he offered.
Charlaine Harris closed out the
breakfast and declined to talk much
about her new book, Dead
Reckoning (Ace), “since it’s the 11th
Sookie Stackhouse book.” Instead,
Harris talked about three important
books that inform her writing—
Edgar Allan Poe’s Collected Stories,
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and
Alexandre Dumas’s Three
Musketeers. Harris, who began as a
mystery writer, said, “I turned my
career around by leaving mystery to
mix genres—and Sookie took off.”
Harris was moved by the “roomful of
people who value the written word. It
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the e-book explosion and to explain
Google Books’ position in it.
On Tuesday, before an SRO crowd,
Google Books’ director of strategic
partnerships, Tom Turvey, moder-
ated a panel on the present and
future of e-books, quizzing four pub-
lishing execs on the impact and
importance of the format: Andrew
Savikas, O’Reilly Media’s v-p of digi-
tal initiatives; Evan Schnittman,
Bloomsbury’s managing director of
group sales and marketing; Amanda
Close, v-p of digital sales and busi-
ness development at Random House;
and Perseus CEO David Steinberger.
The conversation began with the
question of discovery: by far the most
common way for readers to find out
about new books and authors is by
browsing in a physical store. What
e-booksellers have now, said
Perseus’s Steinberger, is a system
that’s “good for hunters, but not as
good for gatherers.” It’s easy to find a
book if you know what you’re looking
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Savikas noted digital distribution
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ing that the e-book revolution will
allow a larger number of smaller
players to find their audience. Close
contended that large publishers like
Random also have the “responsibility
to find the consumers” for any given
title, meaning that it’s more impor-
tant than ever “to understand our
readers: their preferences, where
they spend time, how they spend
money.” Though it’s a bit “M.B.A.
101,” as Close put it, the growing
number of “toolsets” online makes
consumer research possible on a
scale unheard of before the rise of
tech innovators like Google and
social networks like Facebook.
For all the innovation and publicly
available consumer metadata, how-
ever, Turvey asked why “all book rec-
ommendation engines suck” before
answering his own question: there
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Schnittman concedes that recom-
mendation engines leave much to be
desired, but that “consumers need
help” any way they can get it: “We
throw thousands of new books at
them every month.” The panelists
clashed mildly over the agency
model for e-books. Schnittman isn’t
sure if the arrangement will survive,
noting, “It serves a purpose in a par-
ticular moment.”
Presenting the Facts
Google Books’ director of product
management, Scott Dougall, gave a
40-minute presentation yesterday
morning addressing “The Three Rs
of Google E-books: Reading, Regions,
and Retailing.” The first thing he
asked was for owners of an e-reader
or tablet to raise their hands; he then
asked those who had one at this time
last year to raise their hands. The dif-
ference: about 50 to four.
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than 25% of Google Books customers
read primarily using Google’s Web
reader, 25% read from phones, 20%
use e-readers, and the remaining
30% read on tablets.
An increasing number of
customers use their devices to
search for books to buy directly, as
opposed to buying from a computer-
based Web browser. No figures were
given regarding sales at the 250
independent bricks-and-mortar
stores that opted into the Google
Books program through the ABA’s
IndieCommerce Web system. As
noted by an attendee during the q&a
session, indie booksellers’ biggest
challenge is getting the e-book–
reading public to understand that
e-books are available from their
local bookstore. Google’s policy
against buying advertising makes it
unlikely that it can educate the
general public.
Though Dougall couldn’t say much
about the future of Google Books, he
did report that the international roll-
out will kick into high gear this year,
aiming to make Google Books avail-
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Authors
Jane Fonda
Extols the Benefits of Aging
Oscar-winning actress and author Jane

Fonda is passionate about living life to the
fullest at any age. In her new book, Prime
Time, due from Random House in early fall,
she writes about “Act III of life” (age 60 and up)
with a gusto and enthusiasm she hopes will be
contagious. “I adored writing it,” Fonda tells
Show Daily, adding that she wants people,
women in particular, to be “much more
hopeful” about aging.
She adds, “Ageism is alive and well and
horribly destructive. Yes, I am getting older
and my body may be in decline, but my sense
of well-being, my wisdom, and my ability to
use what I have learned is very much alive
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AT T H E SHOW
Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at Emory University. She is also a
member of the Women & Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Council on
Foreign Relations. With a new set of fitness DVDs, also called Prime Time, and
two movies awaiting release, Et si on vivait tous ensemble? (And if We All Lived
Together?) and Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, she remains very busy.
Fonda says she enjoys traveling to bookstores around the country and is
very excited to be at BEA. “These are people that love books, they love the feel
of books, and they love authors. It makes me happy to be around booksellers
and people who write.”
Fonda will participate in the Uptown

and well. This can be an extremely rich time Stage: Insight Stage Signature Event at
of life. I have found it to be so.” 1:30 p.m. today and will be signing
Fashioned as a practical lifestyle manual ARCs afterward. —Karen Jones
rather than a memoir, Prime Time covers everything from exercise, intimacy,
sex, love, friendship, mind-body awareness, and spirituality to giving back,
healthy lifestyle choices, financial planning, and even quantum physics. Erik Larson
Mixing her own life experiences with extensive research and interviewing When History
was a challenge, admits Fonda. “Doing a biography is very different from doing
a book like this. I knew I had to think very hard about all the things I would want Has Yet to Happen
to know about aging—what I have learned and what was meaningful to me— History in Erik Larson’s hands is both
that I would have wanted to know at age 40.” She believes that “growth and immediate and portentous: we are right
wisdom” come from the writing process, and through it she has discovered her there with his characters, wondering
deep interest in “the whole concept of the human spirit evolving.” what is going to happen next. In the
Fonda remains an advocate of environmental issues, human rights, and the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an
empowerment of women and girls. In 1995 she founded the Georgia Campaign American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
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Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels. The biggest challenge, Larson says, was making
sure that his source material was accurate. “Martha in her memoir is an
unreliable narrator. Boris, one of her significant suitors, she never even
mentions, though in her papers she does. But then you open a folder from

AT THE S H OW
life was like for an American family of four living in Germany in 1933, when
storm troopers began their vicious attacks and Jews were disenfranchised from
their lives.
“What I set out to do was get a sense of what it would have been like in Berlin
in that very important but overlooked first year of Hitler’s rule,” Larson says.
“I had read William Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and was inspired
by it. I wondered, had I lived there, would I have guessed what was coming?
I tried for as many details as I could to bring it alive, even down to the color of
the cars.”
The book focuses on William Dodd, the ambassador to Berlin, and his
daughter, Martha, among whose intimates were Thornton Wilder and
her papers and there is a calling card from Joseph Goebbels, and you realize
she really did know these people.” Dodd’s wife, Mattie, by contrast, plays an
insignificant role in the book. “There’s just not that much on her,” Larson
says. “That’s one of the problems of nonfiction. You have to go with what
you’ve got.”
Larson calls this a complete departure from earlier work—Isaac’s Storm and
Devil in the White City, among other bestsellers. But they all have the same goal:
to create an experience of a time and a place so people will come away with the
feeling they’ve actually lived there. He describes himself as “as an animator of
history.” Major influences include Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember and
Barbara Tuchman’s Guns of August. “In both cases I still find myself hoping the
Titanic won’t sink and that the war won’t happen.”
After speaking at this morning’s Book & Author Breakfast, Larson is signing
books at the Random House booth (4420), 10–11 a.m.
 —Suzanne Mantell

Brenda
Warner
From Rags to Riches
Brenda
Warner, the
wife of retired
NFL star
quarterback
Kurt Warner,
wants people
to know
there’s much
more to her
than being a
sports
celebrity’s
wife and
living a life of
privilege. “I went through so much
stuff before Kurt came into my life,”
she discloses. “My early life laid the
foundation of who I am now.” She’s
not kidding: Warner’s memoir, One
Call Away: Facing the Unexpected
with Resilient Faith (Thomas
Nelson, Sept.) reads like a modern-
day fairy tale.
When Brenda Carney Meoni first
met up-and-coming college football
player Kurt Warner at a country
music bar in Iowa in 1993, she was a
25-year-old single mother of two
living on food stamps. Her first
husband had left her while she was
pregnant with their second child,
after he’d blinded and incapacitated
their first child by accidentally
dropping him on his head. Even
after Brenda and Kurt became a
couple, there were more trials and
tribulations for both to overcome:
Kurt was cut from the Green Bay
Packers’ training camp in 1994 and
had to take a job as a grocery store
stock boy working the night shift;
Brenda’s parents were killed when a
tornado swept through their
Arkansas home in 1996.
But fame and fortune followed: a
year after their 1997 marriage,
Kurt’s career took off when he
joined the St. Louis Rams and led
them to victory in 1999’s Super Bowl
XXXIV. As with every other fairy
tale, One Call Away ends with the
couple living happily ever after—in
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Authors
“I’m honest with my story.”
Warner will be signing galley copies of One
Call Away in the autographing area at Table 8,
9:30–10:30 a.m.  —Claire Kirch

AT THE S H OW
a big house in Scottsdale, Ariz., together with their seven children. “I went
through all the rough times for a reason,” insists Warner, an evangelical
Christian. “I never looked at it as a measure of how much God loves me.” She
hopes, she says, that by telling her story, she’ll “help others get through stuff.”
While Warner thinks that One Call Away will especially appeal to women,
Jane Lynch
Doing What She’s Best At
It’s hard to believe her when actress Jane Lynch
confesses she’s “a little nervous” that audiences
will laugh at her, not with her, as they read her
memoir, Happy Accidents (Hyperion Voice, Sept.).

many of whom will be able to relate to some of her experiences before she
married Kurt Warner, she expects that sports fans will also want to read it, to
learn more about her husband. Of course, being an NFL player’s wife, Warner
has a unique perspective on Kurt Warner’s career. Brenda Warner describes
the 13 years Kurt Warner played for three NFL teams as “some interesting
times.” “My behind-the-scenes side of it... I think it’ll shock people,” she says.
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After all, Lynch’s fictional alter ego, Sue Sylvester,
the deliciously wicked cheerleading coach on the
hit television musical series, Glee, is famous for
hurling outrageous insults at anyone who crosses her. “I’m being very honest in
this book, so there is the possibility of ridicule,” Lynch admits, describing how,
during the creative process, she often felt such trepidation while dredging up
certain memories, that she had to stop
and pace about to reassure herself

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before she could write about them. “I
worried so much about whether to say
this, or to say that,” she recalls, not
going into specifics. She does disclose,
though, that she delves into her
alcohol addiction, her decision 19
years ago to stay sober, and how she
learned to embrace her sexuality as a
lesbian. “You know, you’ll read it,
you’ll think, no big deal,” she says.
Encouraged by her wife of one year,
Dr. Lara Embry, Lynch decided to

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write down the stories she’s been

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telling Embry since they met in 2009.
Happy Accidents focuses on her
professional career, because she says,
at age 50, she has “finally reached a
happy place” in her life. She’s got the
beautiful family, a life in sunny
California, and now, after decades of
supporting roles and guest spots, a
career that’s finally taken off. ”
“It’s a typical hero’s story,” Lynch
jokes, beginning with a childhood
spent in a quiet Chicago suburb. Even
though Lynch always wanted to be a
dramatic actress, she also lacked self-
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realize her dream of appearing
onstage. In what she calls “a fluke,”
when Lynch started doing improv
comedy with Chicago’s Second City
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center troupe in 1987, she realized that her
strengths lay in ensemble comedy. “It

The Plaza Level - Hall B took me a long time to get that, but I
finally [did],” she says. After moving to
Los Angeles in 1993, her career
unfolded in a similar fashion. On
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series of what seemed to me to be
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supposed to be.”
“Like” Bargain Book News and GABBS Network on
and bookseller seminars to help improve your If there’s one thing Lynch wants
Facebook and be entered into a drawing for a free iPad!
sales. Visit www.gabbs.net for updates. readers to take from Happy Accidents,
it’s the hard-won knowledge that she
wishes she could share with her
For your convenience 18-year-old self. “Live in the moment,
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the concept with a printer for almost two years, the author found a way—with
the help of digital art created using stock images and a sturdy ribbon—to
transform Oliver the egg into a chick.
Asked why he chose an egg to convey the book’s message of wondrous

AT THE S H OW transformation, Franceschelli explains that he made the decision after some
deliberation. “I was looking for something that seemed to magically
transform itself,” he recalls. “I thought of a bunny coming out of a hat or a
caterpillar becoming a butterfly, but there was something truly satisfying
Christopher about the simplicity and starkness of an egg that allowed the book to be

Franceschelli
entirely in black and white before a chick suddenly appears. The book works
as a metaphor: the egg holds the promise of becoming something else, and

Publishing Vet Debuts then that little bit of magic happens.”

On the eve of BEA, Franceschelli admitted that he was looking forward to
as Author attending the fair for the first time as an author, though “with some
A longtime publisher, editor, and creator of trepidation. I hope it will be good for me to learn discipline and humility
children’s books, Brooklyn-based Christopher from the other side of things, having presented hundreds of books over the
Franceschelli dons a new cap at this year’s BEA: years to sales departments and buyers. Somehow, in that position, you can
that of picture book author. Currently a partner duck a little bit of responsibility for the books, but with Oliver there is no one
of packager SmartInk Books and founder of else I can blame. I may discover I have a more sensitive ego than I thought.”
Handprint Books, which since 2008 has been an Booksellers can welcome Oliver to the
imprint of Chronicle Books, Franceschelli has world—and Franceschelli to the ranks of
written Oliver, a novelty board book published authors—today, 12–12:30 p.m., when he signs
in April by Lemniscaat USA. Featuring a spare copies of his book at Table 9.  —Sally Lodge
text and minimal art, this book about an egg has a surprise ending that was
inspired by a magic show the author attended at the age of seven.
“The show was held at my school, and I realized afterward that the Ellen Hopkins
magician performing was probably a parent of a schoolmate,” Franceschelli Probing the Pursuit
recalls. “He did a lot of the usual things, but one little trick stuck in my brain.
He had a tiny box that had a red silk ribbon coming out of one end, and as he of Perfection
pulled on the other end of the ribbon, the red disappeared and a green Four teens who are pressured to achieve
ribbon appeared instead. It was sheer magic to me—I couldn’t figure out for perfection are spotlighted in Perfect, Ellen
the life of me how he’d done it.” Hopkins’s September YA novel from Simon &
Remembering that mysterious—if not magical—process, Franceschelli Schuster’s Margaret K. McElderry imprint.
says he began imagining “how a book featuring a ribbon could somehow Cara, one of the protagonists, is the twin sister
recreate the experience I’d watched at that magic show.” After working on of Conner, who was driven to suicide by

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invites you to meet parental pressure in Hopkins’s 2007 novel, Impulse.

“Impulse ends with Conner’s funeral, and I wanted to explore how his
death affected his family and his community,” says the author. “And I also

Melissa Marr wanted to show how Cara, who is expected to be the perfect student, is
under the same pressure from her parents that her brother was. She, like
the other protagonists, is caught up in the drive for perfection that is not an
attainable goal. In my earlier novels, I’ve written about other issues teens
have—abuse, addiction—and though this is a different kind of pressure, it’s
no less important.”
Having landed on bestseller lists, Hopkins’s hard-hitting, sometimes dark
novels—including the trilogy encompassing Crank, Glass, and Fallout—
clearly speak to teens. “I think they appeal to kids on both sides,” reflects
Hopkins. “There are kids who have been through the same issues, and they
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installment in Melissa’s groundbreaking Show Daily that Seriously... I’m Kidding will
give readers plenty of new material to enjoy.
WickeD lovely series DeGeneres will be making a special appearance, via video, at
today’s Book & Author Breakfast.

Your life has changed quite a bit since your last book, as you have
stated, “I got married. I got my own talk show. I started a record label.
I became a CoverGirl.” What can readers look forward to in Seriously...
I’m Kidding?
My life has changed a lot. I’m happier than I’ve ever been and busier
than I’ve ever been. The book has a little something in it for everyone —
adults, kids, teenagers, grandparents. Your pets will love it. I like to say
it’s a combination of Twilight; Harry Potter; Eat, Pray, Love; Lord of the
Rings; and The Joy of Sex.

How is it different from your previous books, and why was now the right
time to write it?
Last year I was working two television jobs, with American Idol, so this
year I had some more free time to sit down and write. It was either write
this book or go on Celebrity Apprentice. I have a new perspective on
things, and I thought I could share it. Plus, in this book I use a different
font. And there’s a different cover.

Is there something you hope readers take away from Seriously... I’m
Kidding?
I hope readers take away the whole book and pay the full cover price.
And just by buying the book you’re gonna feel better, be happier, look
taller, have six-pack abs, silky shiny hair, and find everlasting love. But if
you’re not into that stuff, then don’t buy it.

Do you follow a routine when you write?

With my schedule I had to write whenever I wasn’t on TV. Sometimes
I’d take out a pen and scribble stuff down during a commercial break.
Sometimes I’d do it during an interview if they were boring. I won’t say
who. Okay, I will. Harry Connick Jr.

Would you like to comment on the importance of books and literacy in

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Reading is so important. Parents should read to their children. I have
neighborhood kids come over and read to me. It keeps all of us off the
streets. They also do my windows.
Are there any special organizations you’d like to raise awareness for?
I’m constantly looking for ways to raise money for one of my favorite
places, the Gentle Barn (www.gentlebarn.org). They take in animals
that can’t find homes because they’re too damaged, and they heal them.
Once they’re healed, the animals stay there and help heal at-risk and
disadvantaged kids. They really help heal each other.  —Karen Jones

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Authors
AT THE S H OW
continued from page 20
can say, ‘Somebody gets me. I’m not the only person going through this.’ And
on the other side are readers who have not had the same experiences but
perhaps know peers who have, and want to live vicariously with them, in
some way, through the novels.”
Hopkins’s first adult novel, Triangles, will be published by S&S’s Atria
imprint in October. Written in free verse, as is Perfect, this book inspired Tilt,
the YA novel that the author is currently writing. “Triangles is about three
women having midlife meltdowns, and in the novel I also created teen
characters, their children, who have great stories of their own. So I am
writing Tilt, a companion, that’s told from the point of view of these teens,
who are dealing with their own issues while their parents are focused on
what’s going on in their own lives.”
Though she’s a newcomer to BEA, the Nevada resident has attended other
large book conferences, and says she’s “looking forward to meeting
booksellers, as well as old readers and new readers.” And other authors as
well. “We YA writers are a tight-knit community, and I really enjoy their
company,” remarks Hopkins. “Oh—and I also love New York.”
Hopkins will sign ARCs of Perfect this morning, 10–11 a.m., at Table 10. 
—Sally Lodge
Jim Lehrer
Political Balancing Act
Only when PBS NewsHour executive editor and anchor Jim Lehrer thought
there was no chance he’d be moderating another presidential or vice
presidential debate did he decide to delve into the importance of the debates
from the 1960s through the current administration. The result is Tension City:
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Nixon to Obama-McCain, coming from Random
House this September.
 “I think readers will be surprised to discover
how much power to decide an election rests
with these debates,” Lehrer tells Show Daily.
“People are looking to take a measure of the
candidates, and it’s the only place, the only
opportunity that people have to see the
candidates side by side, dealing with the same
set of issues, the same set of questions.”
Lehrer, who has moderated 11 such debates,
acknowledges the growing importance of what
© don perdue
evolved from a panel of journalists to a single
moderator. “It’s like walking down the blade of
a sharp knife, and one little false move can
affect the outcome of a presidential election—and the moderator never, ever
loses sight of that.”
The journalist has written 20 novels, three plays, and two memoirs. He
notes that in fiction writing, “All you have to do is make it up and move on. In
this book, I had to work very hard at making sure that every detail of what
was said at any particular debate that I was quoting was absolutely correct. I
had to do due diligence on the facts, and I did.”
According to Lehrer, the importance of the debates cannot be
overemphasized. “[The voters] want to know—in addition to what his or her
position may be on Iraq, or using military force, or taxes—do you like this
person? How do you feel this person might handle him- or herself in an
emergency, because most presidents deal with the unexpected, and it is
dealing with the unexpected that the voter wants to measure, and the only
way they can measure that is by paying very close attention to the way a
candidate handles a question.”
 Lehrer, who hosts this morning’s Breakfast, has been to BEA in New York.
“This is where the book business becomes collegial, and if you don’t care
about books, you’re not going to be at Book Expo. You’re among people with a
shared interest and a shared stake, and it’s exciting.”  —Hilary S. Kayle
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Authors
Life Over Movies version of Mark Twain’s autobiography. In
high school I was much taken with Act One by

Roger Ebert Moss Hart. I read Thomas Wolfe as if it was

autobiography. I loved every one of James

L egendary movie critic Roger Ebert hardly needs

an introduction: for almost 45 years, he has been
AT TH E SHOW Thurber’s memories of his early life.

Do you enjoy the break from writing about

writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times, picking
up a Pulitzer Prize for criticism (the first movie critic to do so), hosting television
shows like At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and, just this year, produc-
ing a new series called Ebert Presents at the Movies. Movies form the focus of his
13-volume bibliography (with a 1993 stab at serial fiction, Behind the Phantom’s Mask,
and a travelogue in 1986 called The Perfect London Walk), but this Sep-
tember will see the launch of Ebert’s first autobiographical work, Life
Itself: A Memoir.The famously prolific critic, who lost the ability to
speak from complications of thyroid cancer, spoke to Show Daily over
e-mail about Life Itself (Grand Central) and his first visit to BEA. Ebert
will be at the Author Breakfast today at 8 a.m.
How long have you been working on Life Itself?  told me they were using little rice cookers in their rooms to
Two years, but in August and September of 2010, I did a
great deal of the writing by taking a leave from the Sun-
Times and critics’ screenings and holing up in our house in
the Michigan woods.  Who would you like to see direct the film version of Life Itself,
Had you considered writing a memoir before that? Is there
a particular memoir (or memoirs) you looked to for
guidance in writing your own?
I’d always thought I “should,” but I didn’t want it to be another one of those
tiresome books of Hollywood anecdotes. When I got sick and was in
hospitals for about a year total, I started blogging. That gave me
permission to write about myself and not the movies, and I found in the
process that my memories of my own life were reawakened, some of them
after many years.
I have read so many memoirs. When I was in grade school, I read Ben
Franklin’s Autobiography many times, and also the incomplete early
movies? 
Yes, and I still do. My blog entries are about a great many things,
including life, death, the theory of evolution, politics, 3-D, reading,
sickness, poetry, and yo-yos. I regularly enjoy comments from readers
advising me, “stick to the movies,” as if movies aren’t about all of those
things (yo-yos, less so). 
Do you expect your fans to find Life Itself more shocking or
less shocking than your book The Pot and How to Use It?
Now there’s a good question. Not everyone who can’t speak,
eat, or drink has written a cookbook. In April at Ebertfest, my
film festival at the University of Illinois, two students actually
start the day with a healthy breakfast. It’s not a gourmet book.
It’s more of a DIY handbook for cooking in one square foot of
space. 
and who would you cast to play you?
I cannot imagine such a movie. Still, it could work like
Cinema Paradiso, if you threw in a lot of scenes from great
films. When Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays characters who look red-
faced, pudgy, frustrated, petulant, and convinced of their genius, he
reminds me of myself. 
Will this be your first time at BookExpo America? Who are you excited
about seeing?
I’ve never been to BookExpo before. I can’t believe I’ll be at breakfast with
Anne Enright and Erik Larson, two writers whose books have completely
absorbed me. I think I’ll just shut up and let them do the talking. —Marc Schultz

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Authors figures out a way to pry the laptop out of my cold, dead hands.”
It looks like things at My Weird School are about to get weirder with the
June release of Miss Child Has Gone Wild! and Mr. Harrison Is Embarrassin’!,

AT THE S H OW the debut titles in Gutman’s My Weirder School series. And the author hopes
there’s no end in sight for these wacky stories that make kids laugh. “I hope
that My Weird School goes on forever, or at least until my daughter Emma’s
college education is paid for,” he says. “Speaking of which, I got the idea for the
Dan Gutman series when Emma [now in high school] was in second grade. She was reading
Junie B. Jones, and I thought there should be something like Junie B. Jones
In a Series Whirlwind told by a boy. So I basically ripped off Barbara Park. Shhhh! Don’t tell her.”
What are your plans for summer vacation? Gutman has not forgotten about the slightly older readers of his Baseball
Chances are they can’t compare to the Card Adventures series, either. He’s currently hard at work on the next one,
breathless (and yes, humorous) adventures of about Boston Red Sox great, and war hero, Ted Williams.  —Shannon Maughan
twin brother and sister Coke and Pepsi
McDonald, the stars of The Genius Files:
Mission Unstoppable. Released in January by Anne
HarperCollins, the novel launches a new series
by Dan Gutman. On a cross-country trip with Enright
their parents, Coke and Pepsi uncover a secret Man Booker’s
government plot and must elude some
nefarious pursuers, all while taking in offbeat Impact
roadside attractions. Irish author Anne Enright’s
“I thought it would be cool to write an action/adventure/mystery/travel/ work had been earning quiet
buddy comedy with a plot that involved yo-yos, Pez dispensers, the largest accolades for years, but the
ball of twine in the world—and Spam,” Gutman says. Calling this “a clamor grew far louder when
heartwarming family story,” the author explains that the second installment her novel The Gathering
in the series, due in January 2012, will take Coke and Pep from Wisconsin to nabbed the 2007 Man Booker
“climactic confrontation” in Washington, D.C., with stops along the way at the Prize. Now she returns to BEA
National Mustard Museum and the duct tape capital of the world. as a speaker at today’s Author
The author will sign copies of Mission Unstoppable today, noon–1 p.m., at Breakfast in advance of this
Table 14. At the same autographing session, Gutman will also be signing fall’s release of her latest
copies of Ms. Leakey Is Freaky!, the 12th and final title in the My Weird School novel, The Forgotten Waltz
Daze series from HarperCollins. But fans have nothing to fear: “Wrap things (Norton, Oct.).
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Authors
AT THE S H OW
buying and selling books, it changed a lot when I won the Man Booker
Prize in 2007,” says Enright. “The wolf was no longer at the door.”
Her previous output had included three critically well-received
novels—The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like?, and The Pleasure
of Eliza Lynch—as well as a smattering of nonfiction and short stories.
The Gathering was notably set in Enright’s home country of Ireland,
exploring the secrets of the Hegarty family after the drowning death of
the narrator Veronica’s brother Liam. Enright describes the story as
“very dark and sexual.” She also notes the success it met with came as
something of a surprise, purely due to its nature. “It was almost
unfashionable to talk about the dark side of Ireland in 2007, when The
Gathering came out. There was a fantasy hysteria toward the end of the
boom that was amazing,” says Enright. She began to think of her next
novel in that context. “I thought, I must soak up some of that in the
blotting paper for the next novel.”
Enter The Forgotten Waltz. Publisher Norton hopes it will draw in the
same readers who fell for The Gathering, characterizing it as a
“haunting novel of desire and infidelity.” The story follows Gina
Moynihan, a resident of suburban Dublin, as she begins an affair with a
married man. The affair grows increasingly complex as it runs its course
and the man’s young daughter becomes involved.
“This book is about romance, an affair, infatuation, desire—not
necessarily about sex,” says Enright. “I was looking for a good boom
subject, the helter-skelter journey from riches to rags.”
Although this is Enright’s first novel since winning the Booker, she did
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publish a collection of short stories in the meantime, Yesterday’s
Weather. The gap between longer works was actually related to the
prize: “I was kept from the desk.”
While writing this novel, Enright tried to “go toward the reader,” she
says. “My modernist/cubist impulses, I kept them firmly in check. This
novel is linear. I wrote it deliberately from A to zed.”
But readers will find parallels to The Gathering, such as a flawed, witty
first-person narrator. “You always think novels are different, and then
realize they’re the same,” Enright says, laughing. As for her next book,
she will say only that it will be in third person, a switch she’s eager to
try. “It’s in the air but too soon to talk about it.”  —Gwenda Bond
The Greening of
Inner Traditions
The Vermont-based Inner Traditions, Bear &
Company, which has published bestselling
books in the mind/body/spirit categories for 35
years, is highlighting its latest green initiatives
at BEA. Founder and owner Ehud Sperling
invites everyone to come on down to Costa Rica
to see how the publisher is helping to reforest
by planting trees there—or just drop by booth
4328 to hear about it.
Sperling says that several people helped him become “seduced” by Costa
Rica, including Robin Williams, who starred in Patch Adams, the film
adaptation of an IT book. The publisher runs two tree farms adjacent to the
rain forest. The planting is all done “low tech,” i.e., with oxen moving things.
Through reforestation the watershed is being preserved there, explains
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Sperling. The Costa Rican team works closely with the electric company
because on its way to be used in agriculture, the water helps produce
hydropower.
“This is our way of doing something to return some of the bounty that we’ve
been given,” says Sperling. Let’s face it—publishers who print books use
trees, and Sperling thinks all businesses should explore how they can be
more green and give back.
Inner Traditions uses recycled paper wherever it can, installed solar
panels on its building (an old Victorian home) in 2009, encourages employees
to walk or bike to work, and recently started a food co-op so employees have
Ecomysticism: The Profound Experience of Nature as Spiritual Guide.
At Inner Traditions, Sperling explains, green really begins at home. He
proudly says that grown children of longtime employees are now joining the
staff. “Nepotism is us,” he says, adding that once they find a great gene pool
they work it.
“You cannot have a professional life if your private life is not working as
well,” says Sperling. “That’s all part of green for us.”
At Inner Traditions, from its publishing program to its people, they talk the
talk and walk the walk, now down a greener path.  —Bridget Kinsella

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access to organic food. “That’s my covert way of getting people to eat better,”
admits Sperling. The departments take turns unloading the food truck. By
buying healthy food at work, Sperling reasons, employees might be able to
cut back on trips to the store.
While the publisher is not looking to outdo Chelsea Green and others who If you’re wondering why the air seems thicker than usual, the windows in
do a good job of publishing books on the environment and living green, some Javits’s lobby area are all fogged up, and booksellers walking out of the 2700
recent Inner Traditions titles that support such a lifestyle are Thomas Berry, aisle are out of breath, it might be because of what’s been going on at
Dreamer of the Earth: The Spiritual Ecology of the Father of Medallion Press’s booth (2738). The press, best known for its romance fiction
Environmentalism and a new edition of The Hunter’s Trance, titled list, is demonstrating on an iPad set up in the booth its hot, newly launched
interactive e-book app. And the
editors have chosen a doozy of a
read for their first interactive
e-book app: Passion’s Blood by
Cherif Fortin and Lynn Sanders,
originally released in 1998 in an

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new illustrations, was released by
Medallion in 2008 as part of its
Illustrated Masterpiece series. Even
though the title was well-received
in print format, Medallion has long
considered that Passion’s Blood is a
tale that can’t be simply read, but
must be felt and savored.
The 130-page romance is
complemented by 25 interactive
From humble beginnings Oasis Audio has grown to become high-resolution illustrations
a leader in audio book publishing. We’ve expanded our list featuring Fortin, who is a romance
with business, young adult, and self-help titles but we will book cover model as well as a
never forget who we are or why we are in this business. writer, photographer, and
Stop by booth #4279 to learn more about our exciting line-up illustrator. “The images really help
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Also learn more about our in-house CD replication and truly feel the passion and
and studio production ser vices. intensity of the story,” explains Paul
Ohlson, Medallion’s director of
w w w. o a s i s a u d i o . c o m sales and marketing. For example,
he says, Passion’s Blood includes an
image of a shirtless Fortin lying on a
bed. When the reader brushes her
fingers across his bare chest, he
gives her a sultry glance.
Elsewhere, the reader can be
momentarily infused with the
healing powers of the female
protagonist, Lady Leanna, and
“heal” an injured Prince Emric by
running her hand across his wound.
“Our Masterpiece series isn’t
erotica, so the interactive touching
stops there,” Ohlson assures Show
Daily.
The interactivity isn’t just about
touching and seeing either, Ohlson
says. It also involves hearing what
one is reading and viewing. For
instance, when the knight is leading
his horse across the river in the
quest to save his love in one of the
illustrations, the reader actually
hears the water splashing, the
horse whinnying, and flashes of
lightning in the sky. Medallion
promises to release another
interactive e-book app this fall, this
time a Vampire romance, Angelique
by Helen Rosburg with Ali DeGray.
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34 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 3
Square One’s Top Cat
It’s the cat’s meow at the Square
One booth (3149) as publisher Rudy
Shur prepares to enter the pet care
market with Cat Calls: Wonderful
Stories and Practical Advice from a
Veteran Cat Sitter by Jeanne Adlon
and Susan Logan. Due this
September, Cat Calls follows the
many adventures of Adlon, New
York City’s first in-home full-time
cat sitter.
From Park Avenue penthouses to
five-floor walkups, Adlon has cared
for hundreds of felines in her 35
years as a cat sitter, and she’s seen it
all. A typical house call
might involve dodging pet
tarantulas, serving
kosher meals to
pampered felines, or
putting things right when
owners are not on the
same page as their cats.
She also writes a weekly
column as a cat expert on
www.CatChannel.com
and was once part of
Cleveland Amory’s animal rescue
group, Fund for Animals. She even
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cared for his beloved
cat, Polar Bear, made
famous in Amory’s
bestseller The Cat
Who Came for
Christmas.
Cat Calls offers
plenty of cat adventures, cat stories,
and “common sense” cat care, says
Shur, and with Cat Fancy magazine
editor Susan Logan as coauthor, it is
the perfect title to lead off the fall
season. The foreword by Garfield
creator Jim Davis can only help.
“Over the years we’ve played with
the idea of going into the
pet care marketplace, but
never really found a
project with the potential
legs that Cat Calls does,”
Shur says, confirming that
a portion of the proceeds
will be donated to animal
charities by both authors.
Another major title
from Square One this year
is legendary comedian
Pat Cooper’s memoir, How Dare
You Say How Dare Me! “The book is
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hilarious and getting
great reviews,” says
Shur. “Pat is the
original angry
comedian and
brutally honest. He is
part of the group of
comedians that do
the Friar’s Roast. No
one wants to follow
him. He is that funny.”
Also getting raves, says Shur, is
author Elliot Tiber’s prequel to
Taking Woodstock called Palm
Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of
the Mob, Judy Garland & Interior
Decorating.”  —Karen Jones
DEAR—
Just Do It
Looking for something to do on the
last afternoon of BEA? Nick
Ruffilo—a self-described relative
newcomer to book publishing—
invites everyone to “Drop
Everything and Read,” 2–3 p.m.
today, in Javits’s South Concourse.
He wants people to bring their
galleys and ARCs, swap with
THURSDAY, MAY 26 , 2011
others, and crack the spine and
read for a half hour. (Socializing is
encouraged for the rest of the time.)
Ruffilo made the switch from
finance to publishing more than
three years ago when he joined
BookSwim, a Netflix-like book
rental company. “Everybody’s been
extremely nice and helpful,” says
Ruffilo. In finance, most people
were focused on their own careers,
he says, but “publishing people are
interested in bettering publishing.”
So why not throw a thank-you
party for publishing people? When
Ruffilo told his plan to BookSwim—
which has just launched eBook
Fling for e-book sharing—the
company jumped at the chance to
help finance the food and drink and
giveaways for the event.
But the main idea for Ruffilo is to
get book people together to
actually read. “No one really reads
at BEA, but it kind of demonstrates
that—with all this talk of e-readers,
etc.—reading is the core of this
whole market.”
Drop Everything and Read takes
place just before the book blogger
cocktail party, and Ruffilo hopes
there will be some crossover traffic.
 —Bridget Kinsella
36 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 3 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY THURSDAY, MAY 26 , 2011

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