Book Expo America 2011 - Stage Programing
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TUESDAY, MAY 24TH 2011
MIDTOWN STAGE
10:00 am Buzz Author Justin Torres
Host: Louisa Ermelino, Reviews Dir., Publishers Weekly
Guest: Justin Torres, author, We The Animals, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
10:30 am Sobel on Copernicus’ Cosmos
Host: Neil deGrasse Tyson: the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space
Guest: Dava Sobel, author, A More Perfect Heaven: How Nicolaus Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos,Walker
11:00 am Guys Read: Thriller
Host: Jordan Brown, Editor, HarperCollins
Guests: Authors: Jon Scieszka, Matt de la Peña, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jack Gantos, Eoin Colfer, Mac Barnett
12:00 pm Lisa See
Guest: Lisa See, author, Dreams of Joy, Random House
12:30 pm Alice Sebold Editorial Debut
Host: A. M. Homes, novelist, writer and producer
Guest: Alexander Maksik, author, You Deserve Nothing, Tonga Books
1:00 pm Lemony Snicket’s YA Debut
Host: Valerie Lewis, co-owner, Hicklebee’s
Guest: Daniel Handler, author, Why We Broke Up, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
2:00 pm Debut Novelist Robert Butler
Host: TBD
Guest: Robert Olen Butler, author, A Small Hotel Grove Atlantic
2:30 pm Situations Matter! Sam Sommers
Host: Jake Morrissey, Ececutive Editor, Riverhead Books
Guest: Sam Sommers, author, Situations Matter, Riverhead Books
3:00 pm YA Buzz Author Laini Taylor
Host: Jennifer Hubert Swan, Middle School Librarian & Library Department Chair at LREI, Little Red School House
Guest: Laini Taylor, author, Daughter Of Smoke And Bone Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
3:30 pm 7 x 20 x 2: Dispatches from the Internet in 2011(A.K.A. the Analog World in 2012
Host: Ami Greko, Vendor Relations Mgr., Kobo & Ryan Chapman, Online Marketing Mgr., FSG
Guests: Colson Whitehead, author, Zone One; Rachel Rosenfelt, agent & Editor-in-Chief, TheNewInquiry.com; Misha Glouberman, author, The Chairs Are Where The People Go; Rita Meade, librarian & blogger, ScrewyDecimal.com
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25TH 2011
MIDTOWN STAGE
10:00 am YA Buzz Author, Michelle Hodkin
Host: Kristi Diehm, YA Blogger, thestorysiren.com
Guest: Michelle Hodkin, author, Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Simon & Schuster
Children's Publishing
10:30 am YA Buzz Author Bill Willingham
Host: Heidi MacDonald, Editor-in-Chief, The Comics Beat
Guest: Bill Willingham, author, Down The Mysterly River, Starscape Tor /
Macmillan
11:00 am Lisa Tucker: Lyrical, Wise, and Witty
Host: MJ Rose, novelist and Founder, AuthorBuzz
Guest: Lisa Tucker, author, The Winters in Bloom, Atria
11:30 am My New American Life: Granta’s Best of Young Spanish language
novelists talk with Francine Prose
Host: Nuria Vilanova, Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at
American University, Washington DC
Guests: Francine Prose, author of the novel My New American Life
(HarperCollins, April, 2011) and authors from Granta’s Best of Young Spanish
Language Novelists issue: Oliverio Coelho (Un hombre llamado Lobo, Duomo
ediciones, 2011), Javier Montes, (Segunda Parte, Pre-Textos, 2010), Carlos
Yushimito (Oz, Duomo ediciones, 2011)
12:30 pm Mark Bowden
Host: Scott Stossel, Managing Editor, The Atlantic
Guest: Mark Bowden, author, Worm: The Story of The First Digital World War,
Atlantic Monthly Press
1:00 pm The Cartoonists!
Host: Shannon Wheeler, author, Grandpa Won’t Wake Up, Boom! Studios
Guest: Roz Chast, author, What I Hate: From A to Z, Bloomsbury
1:30 pm Sci Fi / Fantasy: Tor Authors
Host: Ron Hogan, founder of Beatrice.com and science fiction/fantasy
reviewer for Shelf Awareness
Guests: Carrie Vaughn, author, Kitty’s Greatest Hits & Kitty’s Big Trouble,
Tor; John Scalzi, author, Fuzzy Nation, Tor; Vernor Vinge, author, The
Children of The Sky, Tor
2:00 pm Judy Moody Screenplay
Guest: Megan McDonald, author, Judy Moody; Jordana Beatty, actress, Judy
Moody And The Not Bummer Summer
2:30 pm Seed Passion: Heirloom Gardening
Host: Melissa Clark, author, Cook This Now, Hyperion
Guest: Jere Gettle, author, The Heirloom Life Gardener, Hyperion
3:00 pm Unexpected Turns
Host: Melissa Clark, author, Cook This Now, Hyperion
Guest: Molly Birnbaum, author, Season To Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell
and Found My Way, Ecco / HarperCollins
3:30 pm YA to Adult: An Author Perspective
Authors: Melissa de la Cruz, Witches of East End, Hyperion; Ellen Hopkins,
Triangles, Simon & Schuster; Melissa Marr, Graveminder, William Morrow
THURSDAY, MAY 26TH 2011
MIDTOWN STAGE
10:30 am Jennifer Close: Bookseller and Debut Author
Host: Stephanie Anderson, manager, Word Books
Guest: Jennifer Close, author, Girls In White Dresses, Knopf
11:00 am Olga Slavnikova: Major Author in Russian Letters
Host: Natasha Perova, Founder & Dir., Glas
Guest: Olga Slavnikova, author
12:00 pm Middle-Grade Buzz Fantasy Authors
Host: Ron Hogan, founder of Beatrice.com and science fiction/fantasy
reviewer for Shelf Awareness
Guests: Lisa McMann, author, The Unwanteds, Simon & Schuster Children's
Publishing; Matthew Kirby, author, ICEFALL, Scholastic Press; N.D. Wilson,
author, The Ashtown Burials #1: The Dragons Tooth, Random House Children’s
Books
THURSDAY, MAY 26TH 2011
UPTOWN STAGE
10:00 am Insight Stage Signature Event: Charles Frazier
Host: Jon Meacham, Exec Editor & EVP, Random House
Guest: Charles Frazier, author, Nightwoods, Random House
12:00 pm The Rising Literary Stars of Russia: Debut Prize Winning Authors
Host: John Narins, Dir., Causa Artium, writer, translator, literature scholar & Natasha Perova, Founder & Dir., Glas
Guests: Russia's Debut winners: Irina Bogatyreva, Polina Klyukina, Pavel Kostin and Andrei Kuzechkin; Olga Slavnikova, Dir., Debut Prize Foundation
1:30 pm Insight Stage Signature Event: John Lithgow
Guest: John Lithgow, author, Drama: An Actor’s Education, HarperCollins
3:30 pm Craig Thompson
Host: Calvin Reid, Publishers Weekly
Guest: Craig Thompson, author, Habibi, Pantheon & Schocken Books
4:00 pm Great Unsolved Criminal Case – wants projector!
Host: Jon Homans, Executive Editor, New York, Magazine
Guest: Geoffrey Gray, author, Skyjack: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25TH 2011
UPTOWN STAGE
10:00 am Insight Stage Signature Event: Michael Moore
Guest: Michael Moore, author, Untitled, Grand Central
11:30 am Magic and Myth for Modern Middle-Grade Readers
Host: Jennifer Brown, children’s book reviewer, Shelf Awareness
Guests: Lauren Oliver, author, Liesl & Po, HarperCollins, Colin Meloy and
Carson Ellis, Wildwood, Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins
12:00 pm Dear Bully
Host: Ellen Hopkins, NYT bestselling author, Crank
Guests: Dear Bully contributing authors: Lisa McMann, Maryrose Wood, Megan
Kelly Hall
2:00 pm Paulo Coelho In Conversation
Host: Mike Masnick, Founder, TechDirt
Guest: Paulo Coelho, author, The Aleph, Knopf
3:00 pm Madison vs. Monroe
Host: Mark Skousen, editor/compiler of The Compleated Autobiography by
Benjamin Franklin
Guests: Chris DeRose, author of Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe and The
Election That Created The Bill Of Rights and Changed A Nation
3:30 pm The Intolerant Gourmet: Barbara Kafka
Host: Corby Kummer, Sr. Editor, The Atlantic
Guest: Barbara Kafka, author, The Intolerant Gourmet: Glorious Food Without
Gluten & Lactose
4:00 pm The Education Debate Host: Joel Klein, former New York City School
Chancellor
Guest: Dr. Steve Perry, author, Push Has Come To Shove: Getting Our Kids The
Education They Deserve – Even It Means Starting A Fight
THURSDAY, MAY 26TH 2011
UPTOWN STAGE
110:00 am Insight Stage Signature Event: Jane Lynch
Guest: Jane Lynch, author, Happy Accidents, Hyperionbr />
12:00 pm African American Books in an e-Book World
Host: Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati, literary contributor WURD-AM, founder The
Literary Media/Publishing Consulting
Guests: Eric Hamilton, Executive Dir., The Web Academy; Guy LeCharles
Gonzalez, Dir. Content & Digital Product Development, Library Journals, LLC;
Troy Johnson, Founder/Webmaster, African American Literature Book Club;
Booker T Mattison, Author/Filmaker; C. Jeffrey Wright, CEO, Urban
Ministries, Inc;
1:30 pm Insight Stage Signature Event: Jane Fonda
Guest: Jane Fonda, author, Prime Time, Random House
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