BookExpoCast

For this BEA Street Date episode, we reprise Ted Turner, who spoke at the BEA Sunday Book and Author Breakfast on June 1, 2008 in Los Angeles. Ted’s new book, Call Me Ted, written with Bill Burke (Grand Central, ISBN-10: 0446581895) was just released with a “street date” of November 10, 2008.

This podcast episode features an introduction by John Hodgman, author of More Information Than You Require, who served as Master of Ceremonies for this event.

This year’s Saturday Book and Author Luncheon once again focused on political and social issues and featured Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, author of Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era, Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, and Richard Engel, author of War Journal.

Christopher Buckley, author of Supreme Courtship: A Novel, served as the Master of Ceremonies. To listen to Buckley’s pre-BEA interview with BookExpoCast, please click here.

In 2008, the annual Sunday Book and Author Breakfast featured Ted Turner, author (with Bill Burke) of Call Me Ted; Azar Nafisi, author of Things I’ve Been Silent About: A Memoir of Family; and Dennis Lehane, author of The Given Day.

John Hodgman, author of More Information Than You Require served as the Master of Ceremonies.

Please also listen to Hodgman’s pre-BEA interview with BookExpoCast, and Lehane’s Authors Studio interview.

The 2008 Saturday Book and Author Breakfast featured Magic Johnson, author of an untitled book on business; Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Queen; and Andre Dubus III, author of The Garden of Last Days: A Novel.

Alec Baldwin, author of A Promise To Ourselves: A Journey Through Divorce and Fatherhood served as the Master of Ceremonies.

Presented in cooperation with the Children’s Booksellers and Publishers Committee [A cooperative committee of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC), and the Children’s Book Council (CBC)] this opening-day breakfast featured Sherman Alexie, author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian; Judy Blume, author of Going, Going, Gone! with the Pain and the Great One; and Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book.

Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox served as the Master of Ceremonies. Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, provided special introductory remarks.