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BEA 2013: Spotlight On Children: Marking Memorable Milestones
A handful of children’s publishers have arrived at BEA eager to announce and celebrate anniversaries of books, characters, or imprints.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight On Children: Browsing the Booths, Chapter 1
Booksellers scouting new and upcoming children’s books will have plenty to pore over at this year’s show.
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BEA 2013: Eric Lindner: The Road Seldom Taken
On the surface, Eric Lindner seems an unlikely hospice volunteer.
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BEA 2013: Brendan Jay Sullivan: A Visit to Rivington with Lady Gaga
In Rivington Was Ours: Lady Gaga, the Lower East Side, and the Prime of Our Lives (It Books, Sept.), Brendan Jay Sullivan, also known to his clubbing fans as DJ VH1, recalls the recent heyday of one of New York City’s hippest neighborhoods, where aspiring writers, latter-day hair metal acolytes, and wannabe pop stars dated one another, drank till the sun came up, and dreamed of making it big.
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BEA 2013: Nancy Horan Follows Her Heart
In 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson was on a train to California in pursuit of Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, 10 years his senior and married, with whom he’d fallen in love.
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BEA 2013: Jason Mott: Best-Case Scenarios
A year ago, Jason Mott was working at a Verizon wireless call center—“talking to angry New Yorkers for 40 hours a week.”
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BEA 2013: Joshilyn Jackson: Two Characters Tell One Story
Joshilyn Jackson’s fans, who might come to her work expecting lyrical portrayals of the Deep South and a collision of complicated characters, will not be disappointed with her sixth novel, Someone Else’s Love Story. But they may be surprised.
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BEA 2013: Trista Sutter: ‘I Do’ in Front of Millions
She was the very first Bachelorette, a former pediatric physical therapist and Miami Heat dancer who fell in love with a handsome poetry-writing Colorado firefighter and had her fairy tale wedding televised on ABC to more than 26 million viewers.
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BEA 2013: Tracey Garvis Graves: A Serendipitous Movie Option
Like most self-published authors, Tracey Garvis Graves just always wanted to write a novel and was determined not to let her “100% rejection” by agents and publishers stop her.
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Susan Cooper: A View from the Window
Sometimes the next great idea for a book is just outside one’s window.
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BEA 2013: Dianne Dixon: From TV to Novels
Sometimes ignorance is not just bliss but a blessing. Back when Dianne Dixon was a clueless grad student, she listened when a friend told her that she was so offbeat and funny that she should get a job at Disney or Hanna-Barbera.
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BEA 2013: Michael Pocalyko: Tackling the Next Big Thing
As a young man, Michael Pocalyko (pronounced “poe-calico”) had literary aspirations and apprenticed to legendary publisher James Laughlin at New Directions.
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BEA 2013: Wendy Lower: Uncovering What Others Missed
Some people write exclusively about baseball, or the stock market, or dog care.
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BEA 2013: Kiese Laymon: Chasing the Narrative
Kiese Laymon does nothing by half measures.
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BEA 2013: Sheri Fink: Disaster Management
After reporter Sheri Fink wrote her searing, Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times Magazine article, “The Deadly Choices at Memorial,” which examined the tumultuous effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans’s Memorial Medical Center, she knew the article was not large enough to say what she wanted to about that catastrophic event and the lessons learned.
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BEA 2013: Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi: Laughing Through the Bumps
Best known for her party-girl persona on the hit reality show Jersey Shore, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi has penned a book about pregnancy that is far from the traditional “what to expect” tome.
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BEA 2013: Andrea Cremer and David Levithan: Writing Soul Mates Collaborate
It was love at first sight as only two writers could experience it.
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BEA 2013: Allan Gurganus: It Takes a Village
The fictional town of Falls, N.C., continues to supply Allan Gurganus with plenty of grist for his writing mill.
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BEA 2013: Tim Conway: 70 Years of Laughter
An Emmy Award–winning actor and comedian, Tim Conway has been making people laugh for more than 70 years.
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BEA 2013: Jonathan Stroud: The Child Is Father to the Man
One of the most traumatic periods in Jonathan Stroud’s childhood had a positive aftermath.