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BookExpo 2019: Andrea Bobotis on the Roots of Murder, Southern-Style
A woman untangles the dark legacy of her family’s possessions in a hard-luck South Carolina cotton town in Andrea Bobotis’s first novel, 'The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt' (Sourcebooks, July).
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BookExpo 2019: Adam Rippon From Ice to Page
For 20-some years, Adam Rippon’s life was dominated by figure skating. Then, after snagging a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics as part of the team, he announced his retirement from the professional sphere. To transition between that fierce, competition-fueled era and the next uncertain one, he decided to write a memoir.
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BookExpo 2019: Catherine Ryan Howard Fast Forwards to ‘Rewind’
Catherine Ryan Howard found the perfect writing prompt to inspire her latest thriller, 'Rewind' (Blackstone, Sept.): an image from Frank Warren’s PostSecret project.
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BookExpo 2019: Eric Nuzum's Podcast Primer
NPR and Audible veteran Eric Nuzum, who has produced 130 podcasts, has created a book on podcasting basics, Make Noise (Workman, Dec.). Here he talks about what distinguishes the best podcasts.
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BookExpo 2019: Megan Goldin Lays a Trap for Wall Street Wizards
Goldin's novel 'The Escape Room' keys into the cutthroat world of Wall Street hedge fund megawealth and workplace sexism.
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BookExpo 2019: Maaza Mengiste on Women and War
A trip to Italy on a Fulbright fellowship provided the subject for Ethiopian-born writer Maaza Mengiste’s second novel, 'The Shadow King' (Norton, Sept.).
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BookExpo 2019: Jacqueline Woodson Writes About Family, for Adults
This fall children’s book author Jacqueline Woodson will publish her second novel for adults, 'Red at the Bone' (Riverhead, Sept.).
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BookExpo 2019: William Kent Krueger Follows in the Footsteps of Mark Twain
Inspired by Twain’s tales, Krueger decided to write about young people, desperate to swap corruption for freedom, who embark on a turbulent river journey. The resulting standalone novel, 'This Tender Land' (Atria, Sept.), combines outdoor exploits and a meditation on the human condition.
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BookExpo 2019: Daniel José Older Is Haunted by the Past
The bestselling children’s book author Daniel José Older steps out of his comfort zone with his first literary adult novel, 'The Book of Lost Saints' (Imprint, Nov.)
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BookExpo 2019: Jenny Slate's Truest Voice
Jenny Slate is an actress ('Parks and Recreation'), stand-up comedian (a season on 'SNL'), and author of the children’s book 'Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,' which is the basis for a series of videos and an upcoming movie.
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BookExpo 2019: How Far Will John Hodgman Go for Fame?
John Hodgman is an unlikely guy to become famous, and he knows it. “Anyone who has looked at my face knows that my destiny was not to be in film. I can only play villains and creeps because I look weird on camera,” he says.
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BookExpo 2019: Pete Holmes On Losing (and Finding) His Religion
Comedian Pete Holmes brings his serious/funny funny/serious take to the publishing world with 'Comedy Sex God' (Harper Wave, May), a book that is part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest.
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BookExpo 2019: Ben Lerner Tells a Topeka Tale
Topeka, Kans., the city in which Ben Lerner was raised, appears at some point in all his books.
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BookExpo 2019: Philippa Gregory Introduces a Bewitching Series
After years of writing bestselling novels based on historical figures, Philippa Gregory ('Tidelands', Atria, Aug.) turns her attention to a completely fictional one, Alinor, in the first book in the Fairmile series, set in the mid-1600s, about one family’s complex trajectory to success.
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BookExpo 2019: Tochi Onyebuchi Channels Rage and Hope
“I felt a rage born of impotence,” says YA author Tochi Onyebuchi, of the decision not to indict police officers over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, as well as George Zimmerman walking free for the death of Trayvon Martin.
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BookExpo 2019: Experience ‘Blowout’ with Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow, host of the Emmy Award–winning eponymous show on MSNBC, will host at a different venue, today’s breakfast.
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BookExpo 2019: Gail Collins On Women of a Certain Age
Author, journalist, and New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins may be personally responsible for saving the mental health of untold numbers of readers who depend on her witty, incisive takes on the world to get them through another day in Crazytown.
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BookExpo 2019: Behind the Brick with Fiona Davis
Every summer since 2016, Fiona Davis has delighted readers with her historical fiction set in Manhattan.
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BookExpo 2019: Nelson and Alex DeMille Team Up for New Thriller
Thrill-master Nelson DeMille found the perfect partner in his own son, award-winning screenwriter (for the science fiction short 'The Absence') Alex DeMille.
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BookExpo 2019: Marjorie Liu Gets Graphic with ‘Monstress’
Although she began her career as a novelist, Marjorie Liu, who teaches comic book writing at MIT, says 'Monstress'(Image Comics), cocreated with artist Sana Takeda, could only be a comic.
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