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BEA 2016: Shining a Light on Good and Evil in YA Fiction
When it comes to filling their worlds with characters positioned along the spectrum of good and evil, Veronica Roth, Melissa de la Cruz, Lauren Oliver, and relative newcomer Sabaa Tahir have it down.
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BEA 2016: Veronica Roth: Making Her Mark
Veronica Roth describes herself as totally “pumped” that BookCon this year is taking place here in the Windy City.
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BEA 2016: Hear Something Peculiar
When Ransom Riggs’s debut YA novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, was published in 2011, it flew to the tippy-top of the New York Times bestseller list, where it spent more than 100 weeks.
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BEA 2016: Chris O’Dowd and Nick Murphy Want to Tell You About Moone Boy
The Irish actor/comedian Chris O’Dowd is best known in this country for his turns in the movie Bridesmaids and the TV series Girls.
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BEA 2016: Speaking Truth to Power
Luvvie Ajayi—comedian, social activist, digital strategist, and pop culture critic—is used to being the person who says what we’re all thinking but dare not put voice to.
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BEA 2016: Comedian Tig Notaro Is Just a Person
Ask any writer, actor, or comedian about their lives, and they all say the same thing: it’s all fodder for their art.
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BEA 2016: Get Outside and Do Chicago
Karla Zimmerman, the author of Lonely Planet’s Pocket Chicago Guidebook, suggests the following to wow your friends back home with tales of a magic Bean, your daring walk onto a skyscraper’s ledge, and exploits with supersized pizzas in the Windy City.
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BEA 2016: YouTube Sensation Hannah Hart: Up Close and Personal
Hannah Hart is the wildly popular, sometimes sober YouTube personality (2.3 million subscribers), and author of the New York Times bestseller "My Drunk Kitchen."
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BEA 2016: The Property Brothers Are Here for You
Ever fantasize that those gorgeous twins, Drew and Jonathan Scott (aka HGTV’s the Property Brothers), would come and personally fabulize your home?
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BEA 2016: A Chat with John Grisham
Heralded lawyer-turned-bestselling-author John Grisham is hard at work on his October novel, "The Whistler" (Doubleday), a thriller about a dangerous investigation into high levels of judicial corruption.
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Plucking Stories from Personal Experience
Authors are basically storytellers who do their thing on the printed page (or on your favorite electronic device), instead of around the kitchen table or wherever people gather to swap stories.
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BEA 2016: Color Your World
Got adult coloring books? The millions of copies of adult coloring books that have been sold in the past four years proves that the joy, excitement, and memories of this uncomplicated childhood pleasure really have no age limit.
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BEA 2016: Book Besties: Frenemies, Love, and Crushes
What would we do without our best friends? How did our first crushes make us feel, and did they meet our expectations? What role do “frenemies” play in our social life? These issues and more will be the focus of this afternoon’s #IReadYA panel “Book Besties."
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BEA 2016: Marissa Meyer and Leigh Bardugo: Fractured Fairy Tales for Gen Z Readers
We know that Marissa Meyer and Leigh Bardugo’s YA novels usually get pigeonholed as fantasy, but that catch-all doesn’t really convey the essence of the fictional worlds they’ve created and filled with males and females who are equally swashbuckling as heroic characters.
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BEA 2016: Reeling In Readers: Three YA Authors Tell How It’s Done
If there’s one characteristic that fans of Sarah Maas’s Throne of Glass series, Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen series, and Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke & Bone series share, it’s this: they can’t read each installment fast enough.
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BEA Weathers the Move to Chicago
After something of a slow start when the exhibition hall opened at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 11, book-buyer traffic at the 2016 BookExpo America—which ran through Friday, May 13, at Chicago’s McCormick Place—picked up noticeably on Thursday, May 12.
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BEA 2016: Children's Breakfast Speakers Agree: Books Change Lives
The Children's Book & Author Breakfast was a moving testament to the power of books, as four children's book authors spoke of the impact of reading books upon their own lives and the importance of books in all children's lives.
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BEA 2016: Audio Publishers Association: Tea with the Authors
Today’s 16th annual Audiobook Tea, presented at BEA by the Audio Publishers Association, features megaselling authors Maggie Stiefvater, Terry McMillan, John Scalzi, and emcee Michael Koryta.
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BEA 2016: Justin Cronin: A Red-Headed Inspiration
Ten years and 800,000 words ago, Justin Cronin, at the time a well-regarded, if largely unknown, author of literary fiction and a recipient of the PEN/Hemingway Award, started telling a story—one that he didn’t think would be published.
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BEA 2016: Sylvia Day Thanks Booksellers for Her Success
When Sylvia Day, author of many bestselling erotic romance series, was first starting out, she thought it was only a dream that she’d become as successful as she is.
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