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BEA 2014: Amanda Palmer: No Shame in Asking
It was a circuitous and unexpected road that led Amanda Palmer to become an author. Best known as one-half of the punk duo the Dresden Dolls, Palmer had already expanded her creative world to include songwriter, playwright, and blogger.
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BEA 2014: Meg Wolitzer: Venturing into YA Territory
Author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, and other acclaimed adult novels, as well as The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman for middle-graders, Meg Wolitzer makes her initial foray into YA fiction with Belzhar (Dutton, Sept.), which is set at a Vermont boarding school for emotionally fragile and highly intelligent teenagers.
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BEA 2014: Scott Blackwood: Inspired by a Multiple Murder
Scott Blackwood’s evocative novel See How Small (Little, Brown, Dec.), in which three teenage girls are murdered in a small Texas town, achieves such a multilayered narrative effect that even its author has a tough time pigeonholing the book’s genre.
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BEA 2014: Malcolm Brooks: Renaissance Cowboy
How does a Montana horseman and carpenter by trade write a first novel that is getting the kind of advance press garnered by Cold Mountain?
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BEA 2014: Greer Macallister: Truth or Illusion?
While most people watching a magician sawing a woman in half during a performance typically wonder how it’s done, Greer Macallister’s curiosity extended far beyond such a prosaic concern: instead, she wondered why she had never seen or even read of a female magician sawing a man in half.
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BEA 2014: Morgan Rielly: Teenager on a History Mission
Morgan Rielly was only 14 years old when he interviewed his first WWII veteran.
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Andrea Davis Pinkney: Shedding Light on a Dark Subject
The gift of a simple red pencil gives a girl in war-ravaged Sudan the opportunity to express her feelings and overcome her grief.
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BEA 2014: Hampton Sides: Icebound in Siberia
His name, his publisher proudly announces, is “nearly synonymous with high-velocity narratives” that “perfectly capture pivotal moments in history,” making what Hampton Sides does sound really easy.
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BEA 2014: Sarah Lotz: A Crash, and Three More
The chills in The Three (Little, Brown, May), Sarah Lotz’s debut novel written on her own and under her own name, begin with the scary description of a plane crash in Japan.
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Ann Hood: A Family Century
Ann Hood’s bibliography is full of families both fictional and real. Family tragedy was the source of two memoirs, Do Not Go Gentle (2000) and Comfort (2008), and have informed her novels, including The Knitting Circle (2007) and The Red Thread (2010).
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BEA 2014: Dani Pettrey: Promoting Family Adventure
Danni Pettrey grew up canoeing, scuba diving, wind surfing, and sailing.
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BEA 2014: Desiree Zamorano Quells Hispanic Stereotyping
In The Amado Women (Cinco Puntos Press, June), Desiree Zamorano’s first trade-published novel, the strong family ties that bind a mother and her three daughters is the centerpiece of a story that dispels many of the media-fueled stereotyping of Hispanics living in America.
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BEA 2014: Ben Lerner: The Way We Live Now
A first novel with glowing endorsements from such literary lights as Jonathan Franzen, Paul Auster, Geoff Dyer, and John Ashbery—what more could a young writer want?
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BEA 2014: Avery Corman: Dads Vs. Moms
Avery Corman penned Kramer vs. Kramer back in 1977 and had no idea that it would totally change the landscape of divorce in America. He learned later that the book was cited more in divorce proceedings than actual legal precedent.
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BEA 2014: Pat O’Brien: Back After All That
Even though this is the first time Pat O’Brien has attended BEA, he’s not intimidated at the prospect of being surrounded by booksellers he’s never met before to talk about the highs and lows of his 35-year career as a sportscaster for radio and television and a celebrity journalist.
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BEA 2014: Walter Isaacson: Smart Thinkers
Ten years ago, after completing his critically acclaimed Ben Franklin biography, Walter Isaacson was struck by Franklin’s creation of the postal and publishing networks.
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BEA 2014: Jonathan Tropper: Screenwriting Is His New Gig
In his second novel, The Book of Joe (2004), Jonathan Tropper wrote about a novelist who fears the “sophomore slump” after his debut book becomes a huge bestseller and is adapted into a film.Fast forward a decade, and Tropper’s fiction becomes reality.
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BEA 2014: Her Ideal Reader: PW Talks With Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty is the Australian author of five internationally bestselling novels, including The Husband’s Secret.
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BEA 2014: Hollywood Comes to North Atlantic: Lincoln MacVeagh
You wouldn’t think someone from old money, who boarded at Groton and went to Harvard, would drop out from that life and work as a busboy, schoolteacher, carpenter, caterer, journalist, and now a computer programmer for New York City.
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BEA 2014: Gregory Maguire Delivers Another Wicked Fairy Tale
It’s been seven years since Gregory Maguire has been to BEA, he thinks, but he’s looking forward to it, comparing the show to the most festive New Year’s Eve celebration.
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