Archive for the 'Archive 2007 Podcasts' Category
October 17, 2007
Everyone’s a (Former) Critic
In this special event from the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival, three music and arts critics known for their humor discuss what it means to be a critic and the art of writing beyond the review.
This session features popular essayist, memoirist, critic and soon-to-be novelist Chuck Klosterman, Rolling Stone music critic and new memoirist Rob [...]
October 17, 2007
Simmons Clan Makes Brooklyn Book Festival a Family Affair
The Simmons family has taken American culture by storm. At this session from the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival they discuss their new books, along with other matters of family and culture. In this unprecedented event, painter/poet Danny Simmons shares the stage with his brother, rap star Joseph “Rev. Run” Simmons (of Run-DMC), and Joseph’s [...]
October 15, 2007
Carter and Markowitz Discuss Politics, Growing Up In NYC
Dominic Carter is a veteran New York City journalist and Senior Political Reporter for NY1 News. Earlier this year, he self-published a memoir entitled No Momma’s Boy.
In this special event from the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival, the tables are turned as Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz gets to ask Carter the questions. In [...]
October 14, 2007
All This Week: BEA Podcasts From The Brooklyn Book Festival
On September 16, 2007 nearly 100 booksellers and thousands of books filled Borough Hall Plaza and Columbus Park in Brooklyn, NY for the second annual Brooklyn Book Festival.
This event also featured a series of dramatic readings, author interviews, and panel discussions. By special arrangement with the Brooklyn Book Festival, we will be [...]
August 9, 2007
Emerging Debut Fiction Voices
At each year’s BEA, the Emerging Voices session features up-and-coming authors who deserve to have their voices heard. Coinciding with the thematic focus on debut fiction at this year’s show, five top new fiction authors were chosen to talk about and read from their novels.
Featured authors included: Peter Charles Melman, author of Landsman, [...]
August 8, 2007
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Library: The Unshelved Guys
What possessed Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum to write a comic strip about a library? And how do they keep tens of thousand of librarians around the globe laughing every day?
In this BEA 2007 session, the co-creators of Unshelved discuss their inspiration for this project and what makes libraries so darned funny.
August 8, 2007
Sunday Book and Author Breakfast
As BEA 2007 wound down, the Sunday Book and Author Breakfast brought together a diverse and talented group of authors.
To open, Alice Sebold, author of The Almost Moon, discusses the pressure she felt to follow up the wildly popular The Lovely Bones and reads from her new book. She is joined by [...]
August 6, 2007
Turf Wars II: Caught in the Crossfire
At last year’s BEA the Turf Wars panel discussion, focusing on international rights issues between US and UK publishers, turned into a heated and passionate debate. This year’s Turf Wars II: Caught in the Crossfire – How Authors, Booksellers, Distributors and Others are Impacted by the U.S./UK Territorial Imbroglio, promised a kinder, gentler exchange.
This [...]
August 5, 2007
Saturday Book and Author Breakfast
This BEA Book and Author Breakfast brings together two of the most popular authors of today with perhaps the most successful documentarian of all-time.
Ken Burns, author (with Geoffrey C. Ward) of The War: An Intimate History, 1941 – 1945, gives us a sneak preview of his book’s companion PBS documentary The War. Lisa See, [...]
August 1, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Kurt Hassler, Yen Press
Kurt Hassler is the former Graphic Novel Buyer at Borders Group and is currently co-publisher of Yen Press. He was recently named the most powerful person in the American manga publishing industry in a survey by ICv2’s Retailers Guide to Anime/Manga. In this Upfront and Unscripted session, Hassler sits down with Calvin Reid, [...]
July 31, 2007
The Crisis in American Book Pages
It’s no secret our country’s newspapers are suffering from decreased readership and resources. As decision-makers cut costs and features, the book review is often one of the first to see the chopping block.
To help fight this alarming trend, National Book Critics Circle President John Freeman, who moderates this panel discussion, has launched [...]
July 30, 2007
The Heard Word: BEA’s Audiobook and Author Tea
In recent years, audiobooks have become a hugely successful avenue for authors to bring their works to a time-strapped audience.
Master of Ceremonies and veteran audiobook narrator Oliver Wyman opens this session, hosted by the Audio Publishers Association, with a reading from Richard Brautigan’s novella Trout Fishing in America. Wyman is joined by John [...]
July 29, 2007
Editors’ Buzz on Debut Fiction
This BEA 2007 session, hosted by Brigid Hughes of A Public Space, brings together five of the industry’s top publishers. Each shares with us their top debut fiction novels for the upcoming season.
Hughes is joined by Judy Clain of Little Brown, Jonathan Karp of Twelve, Fred Ramey of Unbridled Books, Rob [...]
July 26, 2007
Lit Insiders Spotlight: Shelfari
This session, hosted by BEA Director Lance Fensterman, was born out of the BEA Lit Insiders group on Shelfari.com. This group, comprised of industry insiders as well as everyday book lovers, chose one new author that they wanted to hear more from at BEA. Matthew Eck, author of The Farther Shore, was chosen [...]
