Smorgasbord: Links of Note, Apr. 21, 2014

This week, we're reading about how we eat (vegetarian) now, Dominique Ansel's forthcoming cookbook, the history of the deviled egg, and – speaking of eggs – what to do with all those ones left over from Easter. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

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BEA 2014: New Opportunities for Agents and Authors in Today’s Publishing

A panel of veteran literary agents discussed the ways in which they now approach their jobs in the Thursday BookExpo panel “Beyond Authors: Self-Publishing & the 'New' Agents.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Greer Macallister: Truth or Illusion?

While most people watching a magician sawing a woman in half during a performance typically wonder how it’s done, Greer Macallister’s curiosity extended far beyond such a prosaic concern: instead, she wondered why she had never seen or even read of a female magician sawing a man in half. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: A Flamboyant Lawyer

“There has never been a lawyer quite like Fred Levin,” says Josh Young, the New York Times bestselling author of And Give Up Showbiz? How Fred Levin Beat Big Tobacco, Avoided Two Murder Prosecutions, Became a Chief of Ghana, Earned Boxing Manager of the Year, and Transformed American Law... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: A Breakfast of Champions

Humor is very likely on the menu at today’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, which is highlighted by three lively veteran children’s book authors and one debut author whose specialty is comedy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Specializing in Security Studies

Georgetown University Press celebrates its 50th anniversary this year by offering visitors to its booth (1544) two books that reflect the press’s emphasis on what it calls security studies—books on diplomacy, spies, international affairs, intelligence, history, and related topics. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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News Briefs: Week of June 2, 2014

BAM has flat quarter, adds HBG site and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Ben Lerner: The Way We Live Now

A first novel with glowing endorsements from such literary lights as Jonathan Franzen, Paul Auster, Geoff Dyer, and John Ashbery—what more could a young writer want? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Good News, Bad News at Town Hall

What American Booksellers Association CEO Oren Teicher called Amazon's "bullying assault of a major publisher" was a key concern among indie booksellers at both Thursday afternoon's ABA Town Hall and Annual Meeting. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Amanda Palmer: No Shame in Asking

It was a circuitous and unexpected road that led Amanda Palmer to become an author. Best known as one-half of the punk duo the Dresden Dolls, Palmer had already expanded her creative world to include songwriter, playwright, and blogger. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Loving Laughter

Even though Best to Laugh (Univ. of Minnesota Press, Sept.) is set in Los Angeles rather than in smalltown Minnesota, like Lorna Landvik’s eight other novels, she says it’s her most autobiographical work yet. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Scott Blackwood: Inspired by a Multiple Murder

Scott Blackwood’s evocative novel See How Small (Little, Brown, Dec.), in which three teenage girls are murdered in a small Texas town, achieves such a multilayered narrative effect that even its author has a tough time pigeonholing the book’s genre. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Big Books of the Show: Coming Right Up

Thursday's relative quiet was followed by a much busier Friday, with aisles buzzing, lines snaking too far to find the end. Fairgoers stood patiently, waiting to meet the author and get that coveted signature on the title page of the giveaway galley. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: UPNE Launches ForeEdge

Taking its name from the printing term, fore edge— which refers to the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved, opposite the spine—a new imprint for national trade titles from University Press of New England is launching. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Malcolm Brooks: Renaissance Cowboy

How does a Montana horseman and carpenter by trade write a first novel that is getting the kind of advance press garnered by Cold Mountain? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: A Photographic Musical Tribute

Not every book opens with a page featuring a scrawled handwritten blurb from Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Pat O’Brien: Back After All That

Even though this is the first time Pat O’Brien has attended BEA, he’s not intimidated at the prospect of being surrounded by booksellers he’s never met before to talk about the highs and lows of his 35-year career as a sportscaster for radio and television and a celebrity journalist. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Authors on the Air May 30, 2014: Jessye Norman and Joseph Hallinan

Jessye Norman, author of "Stand Up Straight and Sing!" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9780544003408) will appear on "PBS Newshour" on Friday, May 30. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Diamonds Are a Bakers’ Best Friend

Baker Publishing Group celebrates its 75th anniversary at BEA and for the occasion is offering free copies of The Baker Book House Story, the recently released history of the company, and another gift, while supplies last at booth 1031. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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