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Author Signing: Erik Didriksen,
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12:30-2:30 pm
Grab a sampler of Ransom
Riggss Library of Souls: The Third
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Children (on sale: 9/22/15)

Book Club Insider:

Three Bestselling
Authors on the Power of
Reading Together

What Else Is Disney Not

Telling Me? Marissa
Meyer and Lauren Bardugo
on Futuristic Fairy Tales for
Gen Z

3:00 pm
Pick up a recipe card and a maple
sugar treat from Maple
(on sale: 10/6/15)

Norton Juster

A New Look for an Old

Favorite: Norton Juster
to Sign The Phantom
Tollbooth

Sunday, May 31

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Barnet and John

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Mindy Kaling and B.J.

Novak: Together

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A Classy Canine to
the Rescue

Again

Barnett and John:

The Terrible Two Put
the Con into BookCon

11:00 am
Author signing: Sam Maggs,
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Mamrie Hart: A Bad

Apple for the Big

SATURDAY, MAY 30
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John Green:
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We Need Diverse Books Presents:

In Our World and Beyond
JOE MONTI
(Editorial Director,
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KEN LIU (Panelist)
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Nick Offerman: Hes

Got Gumption

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Taye Diggs and

Shane Evans: Joyful
in a Diverse World
Shane Evans

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David Duchovny: On
Spiritual Cows,
Circumcised Pigs, but Not
Cancer Man

BFFs Forever

JENNY HAN (Panelist)

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11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m.|1A23 Panel Room

**BOOK SIGNING TO FOLLOW PANEL

12 p.m. AUTOGRAPHING TABLE 8**

Wands Not Required!

An Exploration of Epic
Fantasy Worlds for Readers
Ages 10 through 110
KEVIN SANDS (Panelist)
3:003:45 p.m. | Downtown Stage

Reality Bites
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(Panelist)
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Aziz Ansari: A
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THREE BESTSELLING AUTHORS ON

THE POWER OF READING TOGETHER

Show Daily @ BookCon asked

these three remarkable authors
to share some thoughts on their
books past and soon-to-bereleased, and to talk a bit about
their personal experience with
book clubs.
Your previous book became a huge
favorite among book clubs across
the country. What is it about this
book that you think resonates so
intensely with your readers?
Annie Barrows: I think that Guernsey

was a book club favorite because it presents in its pages all the great glories of
book clubs: passionate readers with fervent opinions arguing madly with other
passionate readers with opposite fervent
opinionsplus refreshments.
Paula McLain: The Paris Wife hits a
sweet spot, I think, by filling us in on a
time, place, and person we know little

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changes the course of history for a prominent family that has

been sitting on a secret for decades.
In The Paris Wife, Paula McLain brought to life Jazz Age
Paris in her recounting of the love affair between Ernest
Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley. Transporting readers
to Kenya in the 1920s, her new novel, Circling the Sun (July),
introduces us to Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator
whose love triangle with safari hunter Denys
Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of Out
of Africa, awakens Beryl to her truest self and
her fate: to fly.
With her debut novel, The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh created a vivid portrait
of a woman who uses her gift for flowers to
change the lives of others even as she struggles
to overcome her own troubled past. Her new
novel, We Never Asked for Wings (Aug.), is a powerful story about fighting adversity and learning
Anne Barrows
how to be a parent to your own kids.

about. Then theres the appeal of getting

the inside scoop on how and when some
of the great works of American fiction
came together. One reader called the
book pornography for English majors.
Love that.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh: I had the
opportunity to Skype with many book
clubs all over the country [about The
Language of Flowers], and most of the
feedback I received was that they loved
learning about the world of foster care
and also of the Victorian language of
flowers.
What is the one element of your
new book that will set it apart and
touch your readers hearts?
AB: If I were remotely capable of mak-

ing a mathematical metaphor, Id say

that The Truth According to Us is my version of proving a theorem on the endless
fascination of the lives of other people.

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amy perl

oday, 11 a.m.noon, in the Penguin Random House

Meeting Room, BookCon attendees will get a preview of eagerly anticipated novels from book club
favorites Annie Barrows, Paula McLain, and Vanessa
Diffenbaugh. In a Book Club panel moderated by
Carol Fitzgerald, president of the Book Report Network, an online site for connecting readers, books
and authors, the bestselling authors of The Guernsey Literary and
Potato Peel Society, The Paris Wife, and The Language of Flowers,
respectively, will chat about the pleasures of sharing books with
friends, what makes a good book club pick, and reveal tidbits
from their forthcoming novels.
A celebration of the written word in all its forms, The
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society won over readers with
its colorful cast of characters who are members of a quirky
book club on the English channel island of Guernsey after
WWII. In her new novel, The Truth According to Us (June),
Barrows takes us to Macedonia, West Virginia., where the
arrival of a debutante working for the Federal Writers Project

PM: Though Circling the Sun includes

characters that will be familiar to readers
of Out of Africa, it reveals a much more
complex version of them, and a story
thats been hidden from history.
VD: Being a principals wife was one of
the main inspirations for writing We
Never Asked for Wings. There was one
student who, after being brought to this
country as a child from Mexico, worked
hard to get straight As and was accepted
at a prestigious collegeonly to find
out that he couldnt go because he didnt
qualify for federal financial aid. He was
undocumented. It was this story, among
others, that inspired me to write this
book.
In the feedback youve gotten from
book clubs, what are some of the
best/worst/most memorable opinions youve received from book
club members?

AB: Ive had a lot of wonder-

nina subin

ful interactions with book

clubs. The only negative
book club feedback Ive
received has come from people who actually made a bona
fide potato peel pie for their
club meeting and lived to
Paula McClain
regret it.
PM: I love to go into peoples
living rooms and hear them talk about
books, and wish I had time to do more of it,
too. Even when theres a member, or three,
who will cross her arms, set her brow, and
tell me in no uncertain terms that shes not
taking any nonsense from that Ernest
Hemingway. Its why we love book clubs,
isnt it? To really engage and evenyes!
disagree?
VD: I recently visited a book club at a bookstore in my new hometown of Monterey,
Calif. The first thing they did was to go
around in a circle and say what they liked
and didnt like about my book. Most were
extremely positive, but then we got to one
member, and she said she had to skip parts
of the book because they were too intense.
This spurred a passionate debate about
whether the book was too sad or whether it
was, in fact, hopeful.
PW: Are you a member of a book
club?
AB: I am a member of two book clubs,

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both with a membership of two. The first

one is my mom and me. The other book
club consists of me and the guy who works
out on the machine behind mine at the
gym. We both read a lot of history and yell
recommendations to each other while we
sweat.
PM: Fifteen years ago, when I was waiting
tables at a high-end margarita bar and working on my first book, I was in a book club
with five of the other servers, who were some
of the smartest, most thoughtful, and engaged readers Ive
ever met.
VD: I just recently joined a
book club in Monterey. It is
a wonderful group of professional women and avid readers, and I am very excited to
be a part of this great group.
Meg A. Parsont

WHAT ELSE IS DISNEY

NOT TELLING ME?

Meyer and Bardugo on futuristic

fairy tales for Gen Z

arissa Meyersand Leigh Bardugos bestselling Young Adult

novels are thrown into the catch-all category of fantasy, but
their stories, which have captivated multitudes of fans, are so
much more. Publishing insiders often call Meyers Lunar
Chronicles and Bardugos Grisha Trilogy fractured fairy tales
for the Generation Z readers who grew up reading Harry Potter, appreciate smart and strong females like Hermione Granger, and expect their
fantasies served with a dose of darkness. Meyer and Bardugo will square
off in a game of Truth or Dare and candid discussion about their passion
for sci/fi and fantasy today, at 5 p.m., in Room 1A21. The paneland
gamewill be moderated by Jen Doll, author of Save the Date.
Meyer has been obsessed with fairy tales, since she was a young child
and saw Disneys film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersons The
Little Mermaid. After her grandmother gave her a book of fairy tales to
read, Meyer says, she was stunned to realize that the story Anderson had
written was nothing like the movie she had loved so much. There was
a little bit of devastation, too, she confesses. What else is Disney not
telling me? she asked herself.
Meyers Lunar Chronicles quartet retells classic fairy tales with futuristic and feminist twists: Cinder (Cinderella); Scarlet (Little Red Riding
Hood); Cress (Rapunzel); and Winter (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs),
which concludes the series and will be published this fall.
The women in Bardugos trio of novelsShadow and Bone, Siege and
Storm, and Ruin and Risingare equally intrepid, independent, and
strong. The series began with Alina Starkov, an orphan, a refugee, a
nobody, wielding a power she did not know she had after the regiment
she is with is attacked while traveling through a land upon which a
nearly impenetrable darkness has descended. In a lot of fantasy, darkness
is a metaphor, Bardugo explains. Here, the darkness is something
literal; its a place.
While Bardugo also read and loved fairy tales as a child, and claims
that she loves broadswords and mead as much as the next person, she
decided to set her novels in a world more evocative of 18th-century czarist Russia than of medieval Europe. Even people who know nothing
about [Russias] history have strong associations with it, Bardugo notes.
They know the names Anastasia and Rasputin. Theyve probably seen
a Faberg egg or images of St. Basils. A fairy tale retelling is often about
taking the familiar to new places, but retaining the resonances of those
original stories. In some ways, building a fantasy world can be a similar
endeavor..
Heartless, Meyers debut in her retelling of Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland, will be released in early 2016. While Bardugo has concluded the
Grisha Trilogy, she will return to that world with the release of Six of Crows
in September, the first in a planned duet. Its a about a group of outcast
kids in the world of Grisha who break into impenetrable fortresses, she
explains. Its Oceans 11 meets Game of Thrones. Thats the easiest way to
convey a heist in the fantasy world. By Claire Kirch

Vanessa Diffenbaugh
W W W. T H E B O O K C O N . C O M

A NEW LOOK FOR

AN OLD FAVORITE

Norton Juster to sign The Phantom Tollbooth

ore than half a century after he created The

Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster is here at
BookCon to celebrate a new hardcover edition
of the enduring classic. Often compared to
Alice in Wonderland, Justers novel has been
hailed by critics, assigned by teachers, read by
parents, and, most importantly, adored by
young readers. Upon the publication of a previous anniversary
edition, Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker called it an enduring
gem, and wrote, The birthday of a good childrens book marks

Celebrate with us
at our rst BookCon!

a real passage, since it means that the book hasnt been

passed just from parent to child but from parent to child
and to child again. Enlivened by illustrations by Justers
then neighbor, Jules Feiffer, The Phantom Tollbooth is a
mainstay of numerous lists of top books for children including those of the New York Public Library and the National
Education Associations.
Today, at 1 p.m., Juster will be in the autographing area
to invite yet another generation of readers to journey with
Milo to the Lands Beyond. He will be signing early copies
of the new edition, which will be available for sale in
August. It features a foreword by the author and essays by
award-winning writers and artists including Philip Pullman, who says of the novel, It will continue to charm and
delight for a very long time yet. Mo Willems, Suzanne
Collins, and Michael Chabon are among those contributing
essays. Also featured is an introduction by the late Maurice
Sendak and then-and-now photographs of the author and
illustrator. Liz Hartman

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M AY 3 0 , 2 0 1 5

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Nortton Juster

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TOM ANGLEBERGER
author of Beware the Power of the Dark Side!,
an original retelling of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

SATURDAY, MAY 30

FROM 2 TO 3PM IN PANEL ROOM 1A21

TONY DITERLIZZI
author of The Adventures of Luke Skywalker,
Jedi Knight

A STAR WARS DISCUSSION WITH NEW YORK TIMES

BEST-SELLING AUTHORS
TOM ANGLEBERGER, ALEXANDRA BRACKEN,
TONY DITERLIZZI, AND ADAM GIDWITZ
A SIGNING SESSION WILL FOLLOW THE PANEL
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

ADAM GIDWITZ

author of The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy,

an original retelling of Star Wars: A New Hope

author of So You Want to Be a Jedi?, an original

retelling of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

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Find out how a Disney Channel Original

Movie inspired a best-selling novel
A conversation with New York Times best-selling author

MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
and special guest

SOFIA CARSON

star of Disneys Descendants (Evie)

Sunday, May 31, 23 p.m. in Panel Room 1A21

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Movie Event Summer 2015

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Barnett and John:

e are going to put the con back into BookCon,

Mac Barnett, says of the pranking workshop that
he is leading with his fellow expert, or, partnerin-crime, Jory John, today, noon12:45 p.m., on
the Downtown Stage. The two have serious street
cred: they wrote the book on pranking: The Terrible Two ( illustrated by Kevin Cornell), a tale of pranksters who engage in an
epic war of trickery before joining forces to pull off the biggest
prank the town has ever seen. Although the publisher claims
that The Terrible Two is middle-grade fiction, savvy readers
know better: its actually based on Barnetts and Johns reallife experiencesonly, like the tagline for Dragnet, the popular 1950s-era television show, declares, the names have been
changed to protect the innocent. Or, in this case, the guilty.
Barnett and John promise to make it well worth while for
BookCon attendees to attend their pranking workshop. Not
only do they promise to divulge the exact location of a speakeasy at Javits this weekend, but they are going to hide $10,000
somewhere in the building and provide meaningful clues during the workshop as to where the stash can be found. Were

Mac Barnett

Jory John

jason wells

THE TERRIBLE TWO PUT

THE CON INTO BOOKCON

hoping that even though this workshop is being held in New

York and will of course attract locals, that people will fly in from
all over the world just to come to this event, John says, Were
especially looking to recruit people into our secret society of
pranksters, Barnett adds, explaining that becoming an official
member of the Barnett/John prankster secret society involves
taking the prankster oath, which will be administered to all
who successfully complete the workshop.
The pranking workshop will include an overview of the philosophy behind pranking, readings about literary pranks from
books that Barnett and John will claim to have written themselves, and hands-on exercises. A lot of people will be leaving
with a lot less money than they came with, John notes. Asked
if they intend to pick the pockets of attendees, Barnett and
John vehemently deny entertaining such thoughts, pointing
out that the competition for that is too stiff in New York City.
Dont say that we didnt warn you. 
Claire Kirch

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MINDY KALING AND B.J. NOVAK

Together Again

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BY BETH LEVINE

indy Kaling will take the stage in the Special Events

Hall to kick off the second annual BookCon today at
11 a.m. B.J. Novak will interview her.
Mindy Kaling, author of the bestselling Is
Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, is back to
talk about her latest book, Why Not Me?, a collection of hilarious and deeply personal essays.
Its an appropriate title in light of the recent untimely demise
of her popular TV show, The Mindy Project. (As of this writing,
rumor has it that, goddess willing, it might be resuscitated on
Hulu.) But nobody puts this comedian/actress/writer/producer/
director in the corner. The writer formerly known as Vera
Mindy Chokalingam will be interviewed by her former costar
and on-screen love from The Office, B.J. Novak. And, yes, she
spills the beans in her book about their relationship, which has

MEET AN AUTHOR INSTEAD!

Saturday at the Workman booth, #2975
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PANEL & SIGNING

Panel: The Creative Journey
Downtown Stage at 4:00 p.m.
Followed by a Signing in the Booth
4:456:00 p.m.

Elle Luna, author of

The Crossroads of
Should and Must

Jessica Hagy, author of

The Art of War and How
to Be Interesting

Austin Kleon, author of

Steal Like an Artist, Show
Your Work! and The Steal
Like an Artist Journal

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Mindy Kaling

B.J. Novak

many inand outof the know collectively scratching

their heads. (I will freely admit: my relationship with B.J.
Novak is weird as hell.) If that doesnt grab you, you can
just skip to the parts about Bradley Cooper.
B.J. Novak is another slacker (cough, cough): actor,
writer, director, and executive producer on The Office, he is
also a New York Times bestselling author of two books: One
More Thing: Stories and Other Stories and The Book With No
Pictures. He has appeared in such films as Inglourious Basterds
and Saving Mr. Banks and was a consulting producer for
season one of The Mindy Project. (How many of you know
that his father is William Novak, ghostwriter for Lee
Iacocca and Nancy Reagan, or that he went to high school
with his Office confrere, John Krasinski?) His on-again/
off-again relationship with Kaling has often mirrored the
strange relationship of the characters they played on The
Office. Perhaps they will finally work it all out, right before

BookCons attendees eyes.

5/19/15 2:28 PM

MACMILLAN
& #bookbrag

TODAY @ STAGE 3139:

AtoClassy
Canine
the Rescue

en and fashion? The well-dressed man? Just

look around, and youll see that its a concept
reserved for glossy magazines and red carpets, but rarely found in reality. This is true
even here in the Big Apple, where people are
generally pretty spiffy. Since time immemorial, women having been trying to dress
men. Thats been as successful as women imploring a guy to
ask for directions or to put down the toilet seat.
So what does it take to get a man to listen to fashion advice?
Mans best friend, of course: a dog. But not just any old canine.
Men need Menswear Dog, who has become a megastar across
all new mediaTwitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and
countless blogsand has appeared on numerous TV shows, including Anderson Cooper
Live, E! News, and The Rachael Ray Show.
Now Bodhi, the Shiba Inu behind the
sartorial sensation, goes old school and
barks out his advice in a book, Menswear Dog Presents the New Classics: Fresh
Looks for the Modern Man.
Bodhi shares style secrets and
teaches men how to dress, shop, and
guarantee a perfect fit for their clothing.
Bodhi
He also serves as the handsome model.
Without opposing thumbs, however, his keyboard skills are severely lacking, so his master
and mistress, David Fung and Yena Kim, put
his woofs into words. While there is a lot of
goofing around during shoots with Bodhi,
theres nothing silly about his fashion advice.
Bodhi lays out his 10 commandments for
fashion in his Menswear Dogma.

10:30 AM:

Tor.coms Crowd-Sourced
Storytelling
Featuring Authors: Seth Dickinson (The Traitor Baru Cormorant),
Lawrence M. Schoen (Barsk: The Elephants Graveyard) &
Fran Wilde (Updraft)

11:30 AM:

A.M. Homes in conversation with

SLOANE CROSLEY, The Clasp*
Dramatic Reading by: Barbara Rosenblat (Orange is the New Black)

1 PM:

One Book: From Author to Agent

to Editor Panel*
Featuring Author: Helen Phillips (The Beautiful Bureaucrat)

2 PM:

HOLY COW, meet

DAVID DUCHOVNY!**

3 PM:

Heroes & Heartbreakers:

We <3 Romance Panel*

Featuring Authors: Laurelin Paige & Kayti McGee writing as Laurelin McGee
(Hot Alphas)

4 PM:

Signing Party with

RAINBOW ROWELL, Fangirl,
Special Edition**
In Booth 3056: Fun giveaways! GIF Photobooth!
Tarot Card Reader (Saturday 10am-12pm)!
Book recommendations at the Ingenious Bar! Bookstore by Greenlight Books!
*Tickets required Tickets distributed from Booth #3056 starting at 10 AM each day.
While supplies last.
**Book purchase Books available for purchase from Greenlight Bookstore in
required Booth #3056. While supplies last. One ticket per person.
Galleys, books, or prizes available for select ticket holders.

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read. brag. repeat. #bookbrag

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/bookbrag

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1. INVEST NOW; SAVE LATER.

2. CLASSICS ARE TIMELESS FOR A REASON.
3. FIND YOURSELF A GOOD TAILOR.
4. FIT TRUMPS PRICE EVERY TIME.
5. TAKE CARE OF YOUR CLOTHES.
6. CLOTHES SHOULD BE FITTED, NEVER TIGHT.
7. ITS OKAY TO COPY YOUR FASHION IDOLS.
8. LEARN HOW TO PROPERLY TIE A TIE.
9. WHEN IN DOUBT, KEEP IT SIMPLE.
10. IF IT DOESNT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD, DONT WEAR IT.

Menswear Dog will be at the Workman booth (1039), today

at noon posing for selfies, pawtographing his book, and
generally making you feel inferior about your fashion sense.
Liz Hartman

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drinking star with a YouTube problem,
as described by her publisher, brings that
bawdiness to the page in a new cocktail she recommends for BookCon attendees. Hart, in offering up
the Bad Apple cocktail to fans in the Big Apple, says,
This is the perfect drink to read with my book [You
Deserve a Drink: Boozy Misadventures and Tales of
Debauchery, May], especially during BookCon, because
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turned out. The film which is being released on
July 24, a year after last summers blockbuster
hit The Fault in Our Stars opened and transformed
Green from bestselling YA author into pop culture phenomenon.
I feel astonished that I like the movie so much, he says of
Paper Towns. Never mind that Green might also be loving that
hes got another shot at 15 seconds of movie stardom: he disclosed that he has a cameo in Paper Townsjust as he did in
last summers The Fault in Our Stars, although that scene,
sadly, landed on the cutting-room floor.
In many ways, the movie is better than the book, Green
insists, noting that he feels the same way about the movie
adaptation of Fault in Our Stars. I love the way the friendships
come to life, he says, the tension and the joy in the interactions between the teens, particularly those of the three male

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characters, Quentin, Radar, and

Ben. Those friendships are just
so vibrant and so alive, he says.
I tried to bring that to the
book. And, he admits, Radars
girlfriend, Angela, is more
interesting than the original
character he created.
Although hes now got two movies under his belt and is the
star attraction at BookCon for the second year in a row, participating in a panel discussion of Paper Towns in the Special
Events Hall, 67 p.m., Green maintains that his life hasnt
changed that much since Paper Towns was published in
2008except maybe for having legions of enthusiastic fans
attending his appearances and eagerly lining up for hours to
have him sign their books. The first four years I was a published author, I never had a signing with more than eight
people at it, he recalls with a laugh. I didnt think any of my
books would ever become movies, actually, he says, emphasizing how grateful he is, but admitting its been more difficult to write in the shadow of all of this hullabaloo. Nonetheless, this bonafide literary rock star maintains that he is
still a nerd, living a quiet life in Indianapolis with his family
and his friends when he isnt on tour for his books or on location with movie crews. He finds the extraordinary response to
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oin Nick Offerman in the Special Events Hall today, 2:30

p.m.3:30 p.m., in an hour of conversation, music, and
muckraking as he presents his new book, Gumption:
Relighting the Torch of Freedom with Americas
Gutsiest Troublemakers. He will be interviewed by
author/actor/humorist John Hodgman.
An actor, woodworker, and King of the Mustache,
Nick Offerman is following up his bestselling book Paddle
Your Own Canoe with Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom
with Americas Gutsiest Troublemakers, an idiosyncratic collection of 21 people who have made Offermans personal pantheon of Great Americans.
Offerman admits his editor, Jill Schwartzman, is the one
who came up with the idea of a list of great Americans. I was
intrigued, so I started compiling a list. When I had it, I
noticed a set of values and characteristics that qualified each
initiate. Thats what led me to come up with the all-encompassing theme of gumption. They all have a certain grit, a
certain moral and ethical standard I admire.
Offerman explains that he didnt try to write biographies,
but to point out moments in each ones life that seemed to
him to be the source of the gumption that inspires him. This
exclusive group ranges from George Washington, Frederick
Douglass, and Benjamin Franklin to Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, and Conan OBrien. Its all done, as one would expect
from TVs Parks and Recreation fan fave character, Ron Swanson, in a way that is at once serious and very entertaining, with
lots of humor.
I felt like when I finished the book, I had a created a really
complex mixtape for my friends, he says. You know, when
you meet a group and say, I need to turn you on to these 21
bands, they are going to blow your mind? Thats what I am
going for.
Offerman will not be performing in quite the way he had
hoped during his personal appearance at BookCon. I was
instructed that fireworks were not permitted inside the Jacob
Javits Center, so the display will not be as explosive as I
desired. Well have to fabricate delight and wonderment with
our language and facial expressions. There will be an overall
patriotic bent to the proceedings and adequate ukulele musicianship, he says.
And John Hodgman? How did he get pulled in to moderate? He is someone I greatly admire as one of the most erudite
and humorous minds in the world of satire today. It was sort
of an arranged marriage through a secret society that we both
belong to. We were paired together and are being assessed for

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promotion to a higher degree in said society, he says. Since

he speaks in that unmistakable stentorian voice, its hard to
tell if hes kidding. When prodded further about this secret
society, he stonewalls: I am not at liberty to reveal details,
but I can assure you that the society has mankinds and womankinds best interests at heart,

Alrighty, then.

Taye Diggs and

Shane
Evans
JOYFUL IN A
DIVERSE WORLD

t 1 p.m. today in Room 1A10, Mixed Me: A

Discussion with Taye Diggs and Shane Evans
will address more than just a new picture book.
Rather, it will be a handbook to joy and what it
is to be mixed, says Evans. Together with moderator Maria Russo, childrens book editor at the
New York Times, they will talk about how their
own experiences made it so important for them to create Max,
their mixed protagonist.
Mixed Me, due out this October, marks the second collaboration between author Diggsbest known for his acting in
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Diggs says.
Mixed Me depicts Max during a typical
school day in which he encounters great
joy but also confusion about who he is
because of his race. As Evans sees it, this
speaks to the ordinariness of mixed children facing these kinds of questions. Its
just one day, he says, but in one day you
can get hit with questions like Why is
that your mother? Why is that your
father? And you dont have any clue how
to answer that.
For Diggs and Evans the answer is love.
Mixed Me treats Maxs familys love as
intrinsic to his character, something already known
to be true rather than to be discovered. Evans sees in
that a representation of what he calls truth in its
most charismatic way. He adds, I want people to
appreciate their own family relationships, , stressing how important it is to engrain that idea from a
young age.
Through their collaboration, Diggs and Evans hope to pass
on their lessons proudly and inspire another generation to
carry what they learn with them. Storytelling has many varying and positive effects on young people, Diggs says. The
most paramount thing for me: exercising the minds imagination. Stories make children think.
Josh Cohen
gary spector

television rolesand Evans, an awardwinning artist and illustrator for childrens

books, the television show Kevin Hill, and
much more. The two have been friends
since their college days and both are children of multiracial families. Their previous book, Chocolate Me, introduced Max, an
African-American boy learning to love
himself and his skin color with the help of
his mother. Dont worry about what color
I am, dont worry about those things that
dont mean anything about who I truly am.
Put it in a simple way: I am Love, Evans
says. And thats what this child is about.
In Mixed Me, Max exuberantly leaps from one
exciting moment to the next. For Diggs, Max is a
vital character for children to see today. I was an
avid reader as a child, he says, but I most distinctly recall the books that had characters that
looked like me.
Maxs race may not define him, but Diggs and
Evans dont gloss over it, either. He encounters confusion
along the way about why his parents dont match, but his
enthusiasm and his parents love for him supersede all else.
Id like for anyone who has ever been excluded in any arena
of life to feel reminded by Mixed Me that they are indeed
individually important, special, and delightfully unique,

DAVID
DUCHOVNY
on Spiritual Cows, Circumcised
tim palen

Pigs, but Not Cancer Man

because they get to collaborate. When I tried my hand at that,

I decided I should learn something about speaking words. I
came to acting as someone who was going to write for actors.
I cant help thinking of the X-Files plot where it turned
out that the worldwide evil mastermind Cancer Man
was just a frustrated novelist who couldnt get published. Do you feel his pain now?

Maybe. If I hadnt been published, I might be now in a shadow

government in high levels with a Canadian accent. Thanks to
my publisher, FSG, youve all been saved.
What inspired you to write Holy Cow?

I had this idea that if I were a cow, wouldnt I try to get to

India if I was trying to save myself from being eaten? It felt
like an animated feature. I pitched it to Disney and Pixar.
They passed. Seeing the book now, I realize that was probably
a smart move.

BY BETH LEVINE
avid Duchovny, best-known for his portrayals on
TV of Fox Mulder on The X-Files, and Hank Moody
on Californication, is finally where he originally
thought he would end up: as a writer. Holy Cow, his
charming fable about dignity and tolerance, complete with anthropomorphized animals, and replete
with puns, double-entendres and sophisticated
humor, (Kirkus Reviews, starred) came out in February from
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Oh, and theres a cow named Elsie
Bovary.
Duchovny, who will talk about and sign his book in the
Macmillan Meeting Room (3139) today at 2 p.m., took a few
minutes to speak with Beth Levine for Show Daily@BookCon.

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You seem to get a kick out of wordplay in Holy Cow.

Do you think, in that sense, writing and acting fulfill
the same need?The joy of language and expression?

Joy of expression, yes. But as I grow as an actor, as I feel I get

better, words are less and less important to me. Whats more
important is what is going on beneath the words.
I hear youve signed for a second novel. Can you give
us any sneak peeks at that?

Its called Bucky F@&*ing Dent. Its set in 1978, when the
Yankees overtook the Red Sox and the curse of the Babe continued.
Okay, and I have to ask or my husband will leave me:
X Files reunion. Is that really happening?

Everyone mentions your Princeton and Yale background in English. Were you a writer before you
become an actor?

We start shooting six episodes in June in Vancouver. I dont

know when it will air or anything about Cancer Man.

That was my original ambition, the story I told myself when

I was thinking about my life after school. The original concept
of going to graduate school was so I could teach and write. I
came to acting through writing, but it was very lonely sitting
in a room by myself. At the age of 22, I couldnt quite face
that. I thought playwrights and screenwriters had more fun

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They got together in the last movie.

Oh. Right. Will they stay together?

Well, thats the question, isnt it?

[Sigh.]

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and married to a Chinese-American
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the life I live, he says. Despite this, he insists,
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its about business, Monti explains. Putting a person of color

on a book cover isnt detrimental to sales. Having a bad cover
is detrimental to sales.
Monti certainly walks his talk: the four new releases on
Sagas spring debut list are all by multicultural authors, and
of the total 20 new releases in 2015, only three are by white
men. Of the four authors on todays panel,
three are Saga authors: Ken Liu, whose debut
novel, Grace of Kings, was published in April;
Nnedi Okoafor, whose novel Lagoon
is being released in July;
a n d K a m e r o n H u r l e y,
whose novel The Stars Are
Legion will be published in
2016.
The lone panelist not associated with Saga, Daniel Jos
Older (Bone Street Rumba

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series, published by Penguin Random House/Roc), writes urban

fantasy that goes beyond using
the city as a cool backdrop in a
subgenre that is dominated by
white power narratives, he says.
Noting that last years inaugural
BookCon drew a very black and
brown crowd that was not
reflected equitably in the event
programming, Older adds, It
takes more than a diversity panel
Kameron Hurley
to change how the industry works.
Diversity isnt something that should need to be demanded.
Its a natural state of the world.
Liu, who describes his writing as silk punktales
inspired by Chinese myths and technological prototypes
says that the call for more diversity in SFF is not about making books more inclusive, its about making books more
reflective of the experiences of reading audiences. Publishers
have to catch up to their readers, he says, and drop the idea
that SFF readers wont read books by people of color or women.
After all, he points out, all of the Nebula award winners last
year (selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of
America) were women. Readers are not the problem, Liu
says, Were all about giving readers what they want.
Nnedi Okorafor, who describes herself as having stories that
just pour out of me, recalls that, growing up, she
never read books that had characters who looked like
me, which inspired her in part to write novels with
themes that draw upon her Nigerian heritage. She
says the calls for diversity in SFF are very positive,
but admits that its frustrating to hear the emphasis
upon multicultural when it comes to her books.
Every writer wants to be read, she insists. I hope
youre reading me because its a good story.
Kameron Hurley points out that writing people of
color and women into SFF is nothing new. AfricanAmericans and women have always written SFF, she says, but
their voices have been suppressed. She notes that when she
wrote The Mirror Empire, no one wanted it, because it didnt
look like other epic fantasies. Her breakthrough came when
Angry Robot, a small press in the U.K. that specializes in science fiction and fantasy fiction, sold 13,000 copies in four or
five months, which attracted the attention of
the major houses, including S&S/Saga.
Small presses have always driven the
changes n the industry, Hurley notes. They
take the risks. Im looking forward to this
panel: were going to have a pretty interesting discussion.
The panel, We Need Diverse Books Presents In Our World and Beyond, moderated
by YA author Marieke Nijkamp (This Is
Where It Ends), will be held in Room 1A21
at 11 a.m.

Aziz Ansari

A SERIOUSLY FUNNY LOOK AT LOVE

Ruvan Wijesooriya

ooking for love these days isnt for the faint of heart. From TMI selfies to
parsing out the inner meaning of drunk texts, you could be forgiven if youd
like to skip the whole thing and just devote your life to good works. You are
not alone.
Comedian Aziz Ansari (Parks and Recreation) has teamed up with NYU
sociologist Eric Klinenberg to provide a unique look at Modern Romance
(June). The two interviewed hundreds of people; conducted focus groups from
Tokyo and Buenos Aires to Wichita, Kans.; analyzed behavioral data and surveys; and
created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages.
They also spoke to some of the worlds leading social scientists, such as Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb
Willer. Result? A book that is hilarious but also deeply serious about what it takes to
find love these daysand keep it.
Aziz helps you find love today in the Special Events Hall, 4:155:15 p.m., where
he will be interviewed by Daniel Jones, editor of the New York Timess Modern Love
column. Beth Levine

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LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

Pop culture guru, frequent

performer at Nerdnite and
Nerdtacular, and author of
Fun with Kirk and Spock,
Robb Pearlman, is at BookCon to celebrate his new
guide to long life and prosperity: The Wit and Wisdom
of Star Trek. Trekkies should
trek over to Cider Mill Presss
booth (2642) at 11 a.m.,
where Pearlman will be signing the new book, which features classic quotes, photos,
behind-the-scenes trivia, and
personal recollections from
the cast and crew of the original Star Trek series.

BE BFFS FOREVER

GET YOUR CARDS READ:

Sarah Dessen, Gayle Forman, and

Jenny Han take the stage in Room
1A23, 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m., to discuss
friendship, power, and the ties that
bind, on and off the page. Dessen and
Han have new books out, Saint Anything and P.S. I Still Love You, respectively, while Formans most recent, I
Was Here, was published just this past
winter. The creator of ForeverYoung.
com, Sarah Pitre, will moderate this
trio of teen favorites.

Take a break from books and

visit the St. Martins booth
(3056), 10 a.m.noon, today for
a Tarot card reading to celebrate
the publication of The Book of
Speculation (June), Erika Swylers
debut novel, which Sara Gruen
(Water for Elephants) calls
dazzling. Gruen raves, I was
immediately swept up in this
quirky, raucous, and bewitching
family saga.

Meg Cabot, author of the blockbuster

series The Princess Diaries and other
bestsellers, is omnipresent at BookCon,
so theres no excuse for missing a
chance to meet her. At 12:30 p.m. today,
she joins fellow superstar authors Cathy
Maxwell, Kristan Higgins, and Robyn
Carr for the panel, Spotlight on
Romance: Reader Love, moderated by NPRs Petra
Mayer, in Room1A06. At 3:30 p.m., shell be autographing her newest book, From the Notebooks of a
Middle School Princess, at Table 2. Tomorrow, 12:30
1:30 p.m., Cabot talks about this new book in a discussion, A New Chapter in Genovia, with Sam
Maggs, editor of TheMarySue.com, in Room 1A21.
Following that, Cabot winds up her BookCon activities with another autographing, 23 p.m., at Table 6.

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FINISH UP WITH DAVID BALDACCI

Lisa DeTullio

MEET MEG CABOTEVERYWHERE!

Apparently 27 international bestselling

books for adults arent enough for
David Baldacci. Last year he smashed
into the world of fantasy with The Finisher, his debut book for younger readers, which introduced Vega Jane. Shes
back in his new novel, The Keeper, due
out in September. But fans dont have to wait
that long. Baldacci will be signing books twice
today: 12-1 at the Scholastic booth, (2919) and
45 at Table 9. He also takes the Downtown
Stage with other heavyweights of the fantasy
worldMaggie Stiefvater, Jackson Pearce, and
Kevin Sandsto discuss magic, mystery, and
much more in the panel, Wands Not Required!
An Exploration of Epic Fantasy Worlds, moderated by David Levithan. Liz Hartman

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