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First Fiction Summer 2014: Edan Lepucki: A Quiet Apocalypse
Edan Lepucki started California, which sold to Little, Brown at auction and has a July 8 pub date, in 2009, during a 12-day residency at Ucross in rural Wyoming.
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First Fiction Summer 2014: Anticipated Debuts
This week, we’re casting a spotlight on seven fiction debuts by authors who are also professors, mothers, corporate namers, freelancers, and rock stars.
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The Power of Place: Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman's new book is one of emerging from the grief of becoming a widower. It's also a paean to Mexico City.
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BEA 2014: Kathy Reichs: A Villain, a Mother, and Temperance Brennan
Temperance Brennan is back in Kathy Reichs’s highly anticipated 17th novel, Bones Never Lie, coming from Bantam in September.
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BEA 2014: Jodi Picoult: Mothers, Daughters, and Grief Among Elephants
The wildly popular and bestselling author Jodi Picoult has written more than 20 novels including The Storyteller, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister’s Keeper.
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BEA 2014: Ruth Reichl: A Delicious Debut into Fiction
Ruth Reichl joins the wildly popular novelists Jodi Picoult and Kathy Reichs on a panel about bestsellers.
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BEA 2014: Jennifer Holm: Believe in the Possible
At 10 a.m. today, when Newbery Honors recipient Jennifer L. Holm signs The Fourteenth Goldfish, due out in August, at the Random House booth, it marks over a decade since Holm has been to the show. “The last time I was at BEA was in 2001. Back then, I was a New Yorker and a newlywed with my second book, Boston Jane: An Adventure,” she says. “Now I greet the BEA floor 13 years later as a Californian and an exhausted mother of two.”
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BEA 2014: David Mitchell: Six Worlds, One New Novel
This coming August marks 10 years since David Mitchell’s groundbreaking novel, Cloud Atlas, was published to great acclaim.
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BEA 2014: Cary Elwes Spills About ‘The Princess Bride’
Writing his behind-the-scenes As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride, actor Cary Elwes says, has been a “wonderful trip down memory lane.”
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BEA 2014: Mario Batali: Farmers as Rock Stars
As Justin Timberlake is to pop stars, Mario Batali is to chefs, yet that’s not how he sees it.
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BEA 2014: Maggie Stiefvater: A Sinner in the City of Angels
The first time Maggie Stiefvater attended BEA, to promote her 2009 Scholastic release, Shiver, a fan rushed up to her as she sat huddled in a booth with her editor, exclaimed, “You’re Maggie Stiefvater,” and fell down.
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BEA 2014: Courtney Collins: On Her Way Up from Down Under
“A magic carpet ride” is how Courtney Collins describes her experience as a debut novelist.
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BEA 2014: Lena Dunham: Where the Girls Are
Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham is best known as the creator and star of the hit HBO series Girls, where she plays 20-something aspiring writer Hannah Horvath.
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BEA 2014: Skylar Dorset: A Dream Becomes a Reality
Skylar Dorset says a dream compelled her to write her debut YA fantasy novel, The Girl Who Never Was (Sourcebooks, June), the first of a pair of Fairie Court books.
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BEA 2014: Colm Tóibín: Here, There, and Everywhere
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BEA 2014: Lynn Brunelle: Turning Her Geek On
Lynn Brunelle remembers that her “inner geek” first began to show itself in the middle of her fifth and sixth grade “horse phase.” She didn’t just like horses; she wanted to know every single scientific and beautiful thing about them.
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BEA 2014: Martin Short: Coming Up Tall
Martin Short has done just about everything a star can do: television, movies, the Broadway stage, and lots and lots of talk show appearances.
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Grown Up, Still Quirky: Bryan Lee O'Malley
"I had to get a job, and it ended up being at a restaurant," Canadian cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley tells me, speaking about a brief period when he was working as a food runner at a Toronto restaurant back in 2004.
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BEA 2014: Michael Pitre: In His Own Words
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BEA 2014: Philip Gulley: New Series, New Publisher
Philip Gulley writes about what he knows: a smalltown Quaker pastor who serves and loves imperfectly, but who always points others to God.



