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 addition to NYC political topics, Carter and Markowitz discuss their childhood experiences and rising above adversity.
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 podcasting select programs from this special event.
Stay tuned all week to listen in!
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, Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank, Justin Evans, author of A Good and Happy Child, Anita Amirrezvani, author of The Blood of Flowers, and Ron Currie Jr., author of God Is Dead.
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.
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 Ben Karlin, author of Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me, and Ian McEwan, author of On Chesil Beach.
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 panel was led by Brian DeFiore of DeFiore & Co. and featured Chitra Bopardikar of Publishers Group West/Perseus, Lynn Kaplanian Buller of American Book Center in Amsterdam, Kim McArthur of McArthur & Co, and Jill Sansone of Hyperion.
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, author of Peony in Love, and Khaled Hosseini, author of A Thousand Splendid Suns, speak about their latest books and the influences and journeys that inspired them.
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, Sr. News Editor of Publishers Weekly, to talk about the exploding graphic novel market.
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 the Campaign to Save Book Reviews. He is joined by a distinguished group of panelist who are directly impacted by the loss of the newspaper book review. Speakers include: Stacey Lewis of City Lights Books, Melissa Turner of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Heidi Julavits of The Believer, Oscar Villalon of the San Francisco Chronicle, literary blogger Maud Newton, and Michael Merschel of the Dallas Morning News.
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 Lithgow and Roy Blount Jr., who have not only authored new books but also served as narrator, as well Jennifer Egan and Tom Perrotta, who explain what it is like to hear another voice bring their novels into the audiobook realm.
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 Weisbach of Weinstein Books, and Jordan Pavlin of Knopf. Listen in to discover the books that are creating a buzz in the industry!
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 to be the featured author at BEA.
Fensterman, Eck, and Shelfari co-founder Josh Hug discuss The Farther Shore, Shelfari, and the power of similar social networking sites that are connecting book lovers from around the globe.
Nancy Pearl’s Lust for Publishers’ Lists
In this BEA 2007 session, author, librarian hall of famer, and liaison extraordinaire Nancy Pearl focuses the spotlight and dialogue on the best of new and forthcoming titles from some of the industry’s largest publishing houses.
Pearl is joined by a distinguished group of publishing professionals who are focused on informing librarians about the best new books to put on their shelves. Speakers include: Marcia Purcell of Random House, Nora Rawlinson of Hachette Book Group, Talia Ross of Holtzbrinck Publishers, and Virginia Stanley of HarperCollins.
A Winning Season? It’s Time to Take Sportswriting Seriously
This panel discussion, sponsored by Beyond the Book, searches for signs of a renaissance in 2007 for “serious” sportswriting - identifying books and writers that are moving beyond celebrating today’s championships, and glorifying star players, toward seeing sports and athletes from all angles, including sports as integral to the global entertainment business, the lost and found art of sports-writing, and what truly makes a winning sports book.
Christopher Kenneally, Director of Author and Creator Relationships for the Copyright Clearance Center, leads this timely discussion. Kenneally is joined by David Maraniss, Associate Editor of The Washington Post, Cait Murphy, Senior Editor of Fortune, Peter Golenbock, author of 7:The Mickey Mantle Novel and nearly 17 other sports-related books and Starling Lawrence, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of W.W. Norton & Company.
