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A Memoir in Five Acts: Howard Norman
Novelist Howard Norman is in his element as he hikes down a winding trail to McClure’s Beach in Pt. Reyes, Calif.
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Be Very Afraid: Matt Bell
Matt Bell, 32, admits he’s surprised that he dwells so much upon marriage and fatherhood in his writing.
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BEA 2013: John Lewis: A Graphic March
A longtime congressman and legendary civil rights veteran, John Lewis is at this morning’s Book and Author Breakfast to talk about his new graphic autobiography March, the first of a three-volume work to be published by Top Shelf in August.
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BEA 2013: Peter Lerangis Enjoys His Craft and Fans
Peter Lerangis may be a bestselling author with more than 160 books under his belt, but he’s still ecstatic about being a writer, especially one for children.
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BEA 2013: Jim Gaffigan: Writing While Standing
Jim Gaffigan has a wildly successful career as a standup comic, more than a million Twitter followers, and his just released first book, Dad Is Fat (Crown), offers his take on everything from cousins (“celebrities for little kids”) to growing up in a big family (“I always assumed my father had six children so he could have a sufficient lawn crew”) and changing diapers in the middle of the night (“like The Hurt Locker, but much more dangerous”).
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BEA 2013: Kris Miller: A Lesson in Finance
There are things about money that Kris Miller wants you to know.
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BEA 2013: Sarah Dessen: Summertime Is the Best Time
Ah, summer. It’s Sarah Dessen’s favorite season.
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BEA 2013: Chris Matthews: The Clash of Political Titans
You can hear longing for the old days when MSNBC Hardball anchor Chris Matthews talks about his latest book, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked (Simon & Schuster, Nov.).
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BEA 2013: Gennifer Albin: Weaver of Stories
Gennifer Albin explains that her inspiration for Crewel, the first novel in her YA Crewel World trilogy (2012), was sparked by the painting Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle by the Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist Remedios Varo.
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BEA 2013: Neil Gaiman: Fortunately, Making Good Art
Neil Gaiman is scheduled to speak this morning, 10 a.m.–11 a.m., on why he thinks fiction is dangerous, but since he’s an old hand at attending BEA, he knows he’ll have a “captive audience of booksellers” in conference room 1E12–1E13.
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BEA 2013: Diana Gabaldon: Wrinkles In Time
Each of her Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon emphasizes, contains enough backstory that it can be read either as a stand-alone or as part of the series—which she recommends, however, is best read in chronological order.
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A Resonant Crime: Robert K. Tanenbaum
Robert K. Tanenbaum is a former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney who now lives in Beverly Hills (he moved to California in 1979 and went into private practice).
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BEA 2013: A Tutoring Friendship: PW Talks with Bob Shacochis and Kent Wascom
They met as teacher and student in a graduate nonfiction workshop, Bob Shacochis, taught at Florida State University, Shacochis a National Book Award–winning author with a heralded reputation as a novelist, short story writer, and journalist; Kent Wascom, a young aspiring novelist.
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BEA 2013: Tony Kushner: From Stage to Page
Only after the renowned Lincoln movie hit the screens did the idea come up to publish Lincoln: The Screenplay (TCG Books, Jan.).
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BEA 2013: Bill Bryson: Serendipitous Summer
Bestselling writer Bill Bryson stumbled upon the concurrence of Charles Lindbergh’s historic flight across the Atlantic the same summer that Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs.
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BEA 2013: Wendy Corsi Staub: Internet Thriller
A few years ago, bestselling writer Wendy Corsi Staub and her agent of nearly 20 years, Laura Blake Peterson, were commiserating about having middle school–aged children with access to the Internet and social networking.
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BEA 2013: Stephen L. Carter: Playing the Conspiracy Theorist
Today, 11 a.m.–noon, meet Yale law professor and bestselling author Stephen L. Carter (The Emperor of Ocean Park) at the HarperCollins booth (2038) as he signs galleys of his new thriller, The Church Builder (Zondervan, Oct.).
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BEA 2013: Tom Barbash: Empire State of Mind
“Even though I’m living in California, my fictional life has stayed on the East Coast,” says Tom Barbash, who grew up on New York City’s Upper West Side, the setting for several stories in his first collection: Stay Up with Me (Ecco Press, Sept.).
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BEA 2013: Jamie Ford: Depression-Era Novel
Thanks to a series in Seattlecalled “Bedtime Stories,” sponsored by the nonprofit Humanities Washington, author Jamie Ford wrote a short story that changed his writing direction.
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BEA 2013: Pierce Brown: Six Is the Charm
Twenty-something Pierce Brown has written six novels, but none has been published until now.
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