Author Breakfasts
This video features Sarah Dessen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nine books, who discusses her tenth book for teens, What Happened to Goodbye.
This video features Jeffrey Eugenides, whose fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review, and Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists." Eugenides's new novel is The Marriage Plot.
Author Stages
This Author Stage event, "Guys Read: Thriller," was moderated by Jordan Brown. Brown was joined by panelists Mac Barnett, Eoin Colfer, Matt de la Pena, Jack Gantos, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, and Jon Scieszka.
This Author Stage event features filmmaker/author Michael Moore. His upcoming book is sort of anti-memoir. Moore breaks the autobiographical mode while he hilariously presents 20 far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from his own life.
BEA Education Program
The 2011 BEA Editors Buzz featured Michael Pietsch, VP & Publisher, Little, Brown and Company with Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding; Alison Callahan, Executive Editor, Doubleday with Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus; Denise Roy, Sr. Editor, Dutton with Sere Prince Halverson's The Underside of Joy; Alane Salierno Mason, VP & Sr. Editor, W.W. Norton with Diana Abu-Jaber's Birds of Paradise; Jenna Johnson, Sr. Editor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with Justin Torres' We The Animals; and Kathy Pories, Sr. Editor, Algonquin Books with Naomi Benaron's Running the Rift.
This event featured Courtney Bongiolatti, Editor, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing with Michelle Hodkin's Unbecoming of Mara Dyer; Margret Raymo, Sr. Executive Editor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with Joe Schreiber's Au Revoir Crazy European Chick; Alvina Ling, Executive Editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers with Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone; Susan Chang, Sr. Editor, Starscape Tor / Macmillan with Bill Willingham's Down The Mysterly River; and Erica Sussman, Sr. Editor, HarperCollins Children's Books with Leigh Fallon's The Carrier of The Mark.