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In My Own Words: Val Brelinski: Led Zeppelin, or Saving Your Soul?
Brelinski’s debut novel, "The Girl Who Slept with God," is about two sisters exiled to a small house outside Arco, Idaho, by their evangelical Christian parents when the elder sister becomes pregnant.
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The Promised Land: Joshua Cohen
In his latest novel, Cohen structures a modern tale around the fourth book of the Bible, which Cohen describes as a "messy, cultic, slightly insane book about people formation."
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BEA 2015: Anne Flett-Giordano: From Prime Time to Crime Time
The confluence of three disparate elements gave impetus to the writing of Anne Flett-Giordano’s first mystery novel, "Marry, Kiss, Kill" (Prospect Park Books, June).
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BEA 2015: Paolo Bacigalupi: The Future Is Now
The 2009 award-winning bestseller (including a Hugo and a Nebula) "The Windup Girl" (Skyhorse), by Paolo Bacigalupi, is back.
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BEA 2015: Janice Kaplan: The Strength of Gratitude
Last New Year’s Eve, Janice Kaplan, a New York Times bestselling author and former Parade editor-in-chief, “started to wonder what I could do to have a good year ahead.
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BEA 2015: H. S. Cross: An Obsession with Boarding School
Debut novelist H.S. Cross knows the obvious prepublication question about "Wilberforce" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Sept.), her debut set in St. Stephen’s English boarding school after WWI.
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BEA 2015: Jeremy Scott: More Than Able
Jeremy Scott, cofounder and co-creator of the YouTube sensation CinemaSins, has a good thing going with a website that has more than four million followers and 40 million-plus views a month.
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BEA 2015: Linda Fairstein: Books and Bookings
At end of Linda Fairstein’s Terminal City, the 16-book-long flirtation between Manhattan’s top sex crimes prosecutor, Alexandra Cooper, and New York City Police Detective Mike Chapman has finally moved into an affair.
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BEA 2015: Ken Corday: The Gentle Art of Murder
Hey, ladies! Have any dark, murderous thoughts? Ken Corday thinks you do, even if you’re loathe to admit it. In fact, he’s sure you do.
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BEA 2015: Katherine Heiny: A Carefree Approach
Katherine Heiny has learned to ignore conventional wisdom about the path a fiction writer is supposed to take to find success.
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BEA 2015: Vu Tran Enjoys a Series of Firsts
Vu Tran is attending his first BEA this year, in advance of the publication of his first novel, "Dragonfish" (Norton, Aug.), which features four characters who are already old familiars.
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BEA 2015: Nicole ‘Snooki' Polizzi: Unleashing a New Mindset
Now 28 years old, reality star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi grew up before our eyes.
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BEA 2015: Tracey Stewart: Loving Her Rescue Animals
Tracey Stewart lives on a New Jersey farm with her husband, Daily Show host Jon Stewart, two kids, four dogs, two pot-bellied pigs, two hamsters, three rabbits, two guinea pigs, one parrot, and two horses.
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BEA 2015: Leonard Pitts Jr.: Black Lives Matter
Newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. is both fascinated and frustrated with how perceptions of race, culture, and what constitutes progress have evolved in this country in the 40 years between Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 and the election of Barack Obama.
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BEA 2015: David Payne: An Ode to His Brother
Acclaimed novelist David Payne needed many years to prepare him to write "Barefoot to Avalon" (Grove/Atlantic, Aug.), a memoir about the death of his beloved younger brother, George A.
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BEA 2015: Suzan-Lori Parks: He's Coming Home
Sometimes a common theme in childhood inspires one's art. Such is the case for Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and author Suzan-Lori Parks, who grew up in a military family.
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BEA 2015: Alex Palmer: Uncovering a Ghost of Christmas Past
Before he wrote "The Santa Claus Man" (Rowman & Littlefield, Oct.), Alex Palmer usually found his material in very odd corners.
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BEA 2015: Paige Padgett: Looking Good, Thinking Green
Ten years ago, when veteran Hollywood makeup artist Paige Padgett decided she wanted to "green my kit" (work exclusively with environmentally friendly products), she says she had a lot of detractors.
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BEA 2015: Stephanie Clifford: The High Life
Having grown up in Seattle, it was a bit of a culture shock when Stephanie Clifford, now a New York Times reporter, went to school on the East Coast in the 1990s.
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BEA 2015: Mary Kubica: Living the Dream
When Mary Kubica arrived last year for her first BEA, she was uncertain what to expect.
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