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BEA 2016: Jane Hamilton: Succession and Its Aftermath
After a rough patch of anxiety over the state of publishing, the reading public, and her own writing, Jane Hamilton has come up with a novel about heartland America that is being praised by a range of writers, including Karen Joy Fowler, Ann Patchett, and Tom Perrotta.
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BEA 2016: Mary Kubica: A BEA Trifecta
When Mary Kubica came to her first BEA in 2014, it was as a debut novelist.
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BEA 2016: Marcia Clark: Crime Fiction After O.J.
Marcia Clark wanted to write crime fiction since childhood, but lacked the confidence to go for a career as a writer.
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BEA 2016: Elizabeth Cobbs Talks About Hamilton’s Infidelities
What began as a quirky little musical at New York’s Public Theater has now blossomed into the most hyped show on Broadway.
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BEA 2016: Amor Towles: Under Hotel
Picture a luxurious hotel in Moscow circa 1922 and a young aristocrat whose “dangerous” tendencies have caused a revolutionary tribunal to condemn him—not to death but to lifetime incarceration in that luxury hotel.
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BEA 2016: Maria Semple: Writing to Escape Pain
Although Maria Semple has written two previous novels—most recently the bestselling "Where’d You Go, Bernadette," with a film adaptation in the works—the one-time TV writer ("Mad About You," "Arrested Development") says writing them never gets easier.
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BEA 2016: Sebastian Junger: Tribal Yearning
For more than 30 years, bestselling author Sebastian Junger has been haunted by something told to him by a close friend who is half Lakota, half Apache.
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BEA 2016: Louise Penny: Penny Wonderful
You wouldn’t expect bestselling, award-winning author Louise Penny to be, in her words, “wracked with fear” each time she sends a draft out to be read.
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BEA 2016: Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad As More Than Metaphor
Although Colson Whitehead says that he wrote The Underground Railroad (Doubleday, Sept.) “pretty quickly” last year, this novel has been 15 years in the making.
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BEA 2016: Faith Salie: Looking for Validation
Faith Salie says she is both “deeply honored and deeply apologetic” at being chosen as master of ceremonies for today’s Adult Book & Author Breakfast: “I looked up the names of hosts from the last few years, and I hope they won’t be sorry they picked me.”
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BEA 2016: Robert Olen Butler: Veteran Writer
The striking similarities between Pulitzer Prize–winner Robert Olen Butler and the narrator in his latest novel, "Perfume River," leads readers to wonder if the book is in some way autobiographical.
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BEA 2016: Belle Boggs Looks at Infertility from All Sides
Up until now, Belle Boggs has been known for her fiction; in 2010, Mattaponi Queen was selected as a Kirkus top fiction debut, shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, and longlisted for the Story Prize.
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BEA 2016: Truth: They’re a Voracious Audience
News flash: a recent study by the Pew Research Center shows that African-American women represent the highest percentage of readers in the country.
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BEA 2016: Cornell Lab Publishing Group Takes Flight
The recently launched Cornell Lab Publishing Group was founded to commemorate the Cornell’s Lab’s 100-year anniversary in 2015.
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BEA 2016: A Mother’s Harrowing Odyssey
In 2010, Samieh Hezari made a terrible mistake, for which she paid dearly.
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BEA 2016: Getting Lit
Canadian publisher Coach House Books is marking its 51st anniversary with its second presentation in as many years at the Uptown Stage (today, 1:45 p.m.) for the BEA Selects Literary Fiction program.
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BEA 2016: What Chicago Blues Once Were
In the late 1970s, at age 23, British college student Alan Harper traveled across the Atlantic to Chicago, where he had no job, no friends, and no family.
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BEA 2016: Quarto’s Four Decades of Enthusiasm, and Counting
Quarto Books, the company that took its name from having four founding partners, will be celebrating its four decades in publishing today at BEA with the appearance of its Bookmobile, QuartoKnows, at the show for the first time right in its booth (2300).
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BEA 2016: Mass Media Is Dead. Long Live Micromedia
Remember the days when getting an author in the New York Times, on the Today show, Oprah, or, for us old-timers, Carson practically guaranteed a spot on the bestseller list?
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BEA 2016: Discovering Italian Writers
Despite the popularity of bestselling Italian author Elena Ferrante, who was recently named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, the flow of translations between the U.S. and Italy continues to be one-sided.
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