Noah Oppenheim, along with co-author David S. Kidder, have released the second book in their popular The Intellectual Devotional series.
The Intellectual Devotional: American History Edition: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation’s Past is a secular version of the spiritual devotionals that have been popular for generations. This book presents readers with a collection of 365 American history lessons that will inspire and invigorate the reader every day of the year.
In this episode Oppenheim, who also serves as Senior Producer on NBC’s Today Show, describes why he and Kidder chose to format these books as devotionals and gives us a few nuggets of historical knowledge that can be found inside the book. This is a User-Sponsored Podcast
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. 
and Believer editor and former Village Voice editor/critic Ed Park whose comic novel Personal Days will be released in 2008. 
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 wife, children’s author Justine Simmons.
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.
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 
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.
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? 
As BEA 2007 wound down, the Sunday Book and Author Breakfast brought together a diverse and talented group of authors. 
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 BEA Book and Author Breakfast brings together two of the most popular authors of today with perhaps the most successful documentarian of all-time.
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. 
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. 
In recent years, audiobooks have become a hugely successful avenue for authors to bring their works to a time-strapped audience.
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. 
