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BookExpo 2018: Andy Mientus: From Broadway to Middle Grade
Andy Mientus, who has been a theater kid since the fifth grade, took to heart the advice to “write what you know” when he wrote his debut novel, 'The Backstagers and the Ghost Light' (Amulet, Sept.).
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BookExpo 2018: Brian Selznick Honors Harry Potter’s 20th Anniversary
In September 1998, Harry Potter landed on these shores, where his storied trajectory to superstardom took flight when Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine released 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone' with a 50,000-copy first print run.
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BookExpo 2018: Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman: Fiction Stoked by Foreboding Fact
Father and son authors Neal and Jarrod Shusterman didn’t have to search far to find inspiration for their YA thriller, 'Dry' (Simon & Schuster, Oct.).
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BookExpo 2018: Happy Anniversary, Sleeping Bear Press!
Today at 4 p.m., a cake topped with 20 candles—one for each year of the company’s life—will light up the booth where Sleeping Bear Press is celebrating two decades of children’s publishing.
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BookExpo 2018: Yo, Virginia Beer Here!
The explosion in craft-beer brewing and consumption is not limited to hipster locales like Seattle, Portland, and Brooklyn, as Lee Graves illustrates in 'Virginia Beer: A Guide from Colonial Days to Craft’s Golden Age' (Univ. of Virginia Press, Oct.).
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BookExpo 2018: Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
In 'Carmela Full of Wishes' (Putnam, Oct.), their first collaboration since winning both the Newbery Award and Caldecott Honors in 2016, Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson relate the story of a girl from a Mexican-American migrant community.
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BookExpo 2018: Tommy Orange: The Urban Native American
Tommy Orange, a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma, hopes his debut novel, 'There There' (Knopf, June), will alter readers’ perceptions of contemporary Native American life.
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BookExpo 2018: Bryan Reardon: Terror at Penn Station
Following the success of Bryan Reardon’s debut novel, 'Finding Jake' (2015), friends warned him about the sophomore slump. “I didn’t believe any of it,” says 47-year-old Reardon.
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BookExpo 2018: Gary Shteyngart Is Grateful for Greyhound
Gary Shteyngart thanks the Greyhound bus company at the end of his forthcoming novel. The novelist and Columbia University creative writing professor drafted 'Lake Success' (Random House, Sept.) during an epic 2016 bus trip.
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BookExpo 2018: Eloisa James Shows Her Wilde Side
With her latest romance series, the Wildes of Lindow Castle, which she began last fall with 'Wilde in Love,' the romance doyenne and Shakespeare professor Eloisa James explores the roots of celebrity culture and today’s obsession with fame.
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BookExpo 2018: Helen Schulman: A Luddite Takes on Silicon Valley
“I’m a Luddite who wrote about tech. I can’t even turn on my own TV,” jokes Helen Schulman.
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BookExpo 2018: Jarrett J. Krosoczka: Sharing His Life in Words and Pictures
“ ‘It’s like 'Smile' but with heroin.’ That’s the pull quote I’m hoping to get from a review,” jokes Jarrett Krosoczka about his latest project, 'Hey, Kiddo' (Graphix, Oct.).
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BookExpo 2018: Matthew Cordell: A New Caldecott, a New Picture Book
“It’s still so incredibly exciting and oftentimes so unbelievable,” says Matthew Cordell about receiving the 2018 Caldecott Medal for his wordless picture book, 'Wolf in the Snow.'
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BookExpo 2018: Beatriz Williams: Island Intrigue
In Beatriz Williams’s latest solo novel, 'Summer Wives' (Morrow, July), a young woman enters elite 1950s society on a secretive island.
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BookExpo 2018: Roy Scranton: Reflecting on Climate Change
Roy Scranton is perhaps best known for an essay he published in the 'New York Times' in 2013, “Learning to Die in the Anthropocene,” which was later included in an essay collection of the same name.
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BookExpo 2018: Ruth Ware: Psychic Reading
Other than the fortune-teller booths she encountered on bracing walks along the Brighton seafront, British author Ruth Ware knew little about psychic readings when she began work on her latest thriller, 'The Death of Mrs. Westaway.'
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BookExpo 2018: Jeanne McCulloch: Beyond White Privilege
This may be Jeanne McCulloch’s first time at BookExpo as an author, but she’s been a familiar presence since her days as managing editor of the 'Paris Review,' senior editor of 'Tin House' magazine, and founding editorial director of Tin House Books.
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BookExpo 2018: Graphic Authors, in Their Own Words
Yesterday, Calvin Reid, PW senior news editor who oversees comics coverage, moderated a graphic novels buzz panel, “The Graphic Novels You Can’t Miss.” We asked the authors of his favorites—Blue Delliquanti, David Small, Ngozi Ukazu, and Tim Fielder—about their upcoming books.
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BookExpo 2018: Susan Orlean: The Thrill of the Library
In Susan Orlean’s upcoming book, The Library Book (S&S, Oct.), the author tells the story of the 1986 fire that devastated the Los Angeles Public Library, destroying 400,000 books and damaging 700,000 more.
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BookExpo 2018: Paper Magic Brings 'The Nutcracker' to Life
Jumping Jack Press, an imprint of Up with Paper, is taking a fresh approach to the classic holiday tale.