What to do, see, and read 2017

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ON THE CHALLENGES OF
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 From Current Events to Queso
A conversation with Texas Book Festival executive director Lois Kim
and literary director Julie Wernersbach
T
he Texas Book Festival was founded 22 years ago by
thenTexas First Lady Laura Bush and, according to
executive director Lois Kim, a group of very can-do
women who decided Texas needed a book festival that hon-
ored Texas writers and raised money for Texas libraries. Since
then, the festival has gone from a regionally focused literary
gathering to a sprawling national literary destination. We
truly try to offer something for everyone, so youll see people
of all ages and walks of life at the festival, says Kim.
What feels most important to me about the experience
here is the opportunity for spontaneous, unscripted conver-
sations between authors and readers, says literary director
Julie Wernersbach. I love how
wide-ranging the discussions
are at a festival our size, from
current events to social justice
to romance novel plots and
recipes for queso. Our festival
is about books, and books are
about ideas. Literary festivals
are an opportunity to exchange
ideas face to face.
This years festival will take
place November 45 in down- Lois Kim
town Austin. The headliners
are Tom Hanks, who will appear to discuss his first short story
collection, Uncommon Type, and Dan Rather, who will launch
his new book, What Unites Us, and receive the Texas Writer
Award. The chance to see Tom Hanks discuss his short
fiction in person feels like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,
says Wernersbach. And the moment I saw Rathers book
announced, I knew we had to celebrate him as a Texas writer
by launching his book at the festival. She adds, Were a non-
profit organization that works year-round to raise awareness
of and support for the work we do in libraries and low-income
schools across Texas. Hanks and Rather are ticketed events
which directly help us raise funds for our literacy initiatives. So
I hope theyll help us in our ongoing mission.
New features coming to this years festival include a new
tent dedicated to middle grade books, which follows up on
the success of earlier years YA programming. The festival
is also launching Kids on Congress, making Austins famous
Congress Avenue the hub of all the childrens programming.
As in previous years, nonfiction programming will be centered
around the C-Span/BookTV Tent.
Of course, the festival began as a showcase for Texas au-
thors, and it still is. The popular Texas Tent will be back, host-
ing events with authors who have written about Texas music,
sports, Austin spots like the Broken Spoke and Esthers Follies,
Texas-set crime fiction, and more, says Wernersbach. Kim
notes, We draw from around the state, but the majority of our
attendees are from Austin. Austin has a thriving literary scene
of writers and readers, so we are fortunate to be a part of the
fabric of literary life not only during the festival weekend, but
throughout the year.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, this years festival
takes on special significance. The festival organization already
works with Houston schools and libraries through its Reading
Rock Stars and Library Grants programs. This year, there will
be a special campaign to help those institutions and rebuild
library collections affected by the hurricane. Beyond that, Kim
hopes that the festival will help provide an opportunity for
healing and connection: The
storm and the magnitude of its
impact have been surreal, and
we know recovery will take
years. But as everyone has seen,
Texans are incredibly resilient,
and I hope people will come
to the festival this year as one
more way to connect through
community. Art has a way of
Julie Wernersbach bringing people together. Litera-
ture especially makes us more
understanding of one another and of our humanity. I think
that is pretty positive.
Kim stressed that the festival happens not only due to her
staff of six but thanks to many volunteers. She urges attendees:
Give them high fives and applause and all due recognition as
the team that makes everything run. Wernersbach and the fes-
tivals selection committees have created an incredible lineup.
I hope what the festival offers is the opportunity for discov-
ery, she says. Attendees will seek out their favorite authors,
of course, and also meet writers and stories they didnt know
before the festival. My drive in this life is to connect writers
and readers. I want to put the best books in the hands of the
people who will love them.
Craig Teicher
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6 Dan Rather on What Unites Us 22 Rewriting History: Cristina Garcia

and Min Jin Lee
8 Highlights of the Festival
24 Real News: Carino Chocano, Angela J. Davis,
10 The Healing Power of Laughter: Samantha Irby and Kevin Young

12 Sisters in and out of the Spotlight: Jenna Bush Hager 28 Meat and Veggies: Cooking with Mark Bittman
and Barbara Pierce Bush and Gail Simmons

14 Being Fierce: Gretchen Carlson 30 For the Kidsand the Teens

18 Short Lives and Growing Pains: Jeffrey Eugenides

and Claire Messud

20 History Lessons: Jennifer Egan

21 Comics and Graphic Novel Highlights

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 Dan Rather
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What Unites Us

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In the Trump era, the news has become infinitely more divisive, confusing, and addictive.
Whatever ones beliefs or political leanings, the swarms of notifications, sound bites, and updates
that bombard us are so dizzying it can feel impossible to know where to look. Which is why we need
Dan Rather, festival headliner and winner of this years Texas Writer Award, more than ever.
Since the time of J.F.K.s assassination, through his storied career as anchor for CBS
News Tonight, to the present day, Rather has been one of the major voices of the newsthe
real news. In his new collection of essays, What Unites Us, he advocates for sanity and seeks
common ground in a divided America. He has plenty of wisdom to share, especially about how to
read the news.

How can Americans
sort through the many
overwhelming feeds of
news theyre exposed to
every day?
There was a time, not too
long ago, you could expect
to tune into the evening
news on one of the big
three networks and get a
pretty good feel on what
was going on in the day.
Thats no longer the case,
so you need to remind
yourself it requires some
work. Its very important
to check a wide variety of
placesnot just find a place
where you think they reflect
your biases. This may be the
most important part. And
the news consumer today
needs to be skeptical. Never
cynical, but skeptical. Par-
ticularly when something is
on social media.
Would you say that what
were experiencing so-
cially and politically right
now is unprecedented?
We are unquestionably in
an unprecedented era. Not
just for journalism but for
our country as a whole. It
does feel completely dif-
ferent. When people say
to me, This doesnt feel sion president. Television
like anything weve been
through before, my answer
is, Yes. It feels that way
to you because thats the
way it is. Theres never
been a presidency like this
presidency. There has
been so much chaos, even
dysfunction. Facts are not
debatable. Water does not
run uphill. And yes, two and
two equals four. Theres no
alternative fact to that.
Social media has played
such a huge role in
political life. Lately,
youve started to use it
much more heavily.
How do you feel about
President Trumps use
of social media?
President Trump is our first
totally social media presi-
dent. President Obama ex-
perimented with it. Franklin
Roosevelt was our first radio
presidentthere was radio
before Franklin Roosevelt
came into office, but he
marshaled radio to further press, and the rule of law.
his political agenda. Ken- The national conversation
nedy was the first real televi- has gotten in many ways so
toxic, and were so divided
had been around before, but over so many things. Not
President Eisenhower didnt enough people stop to say,
understand it, didnt like it. I disagree with you about a
So Kennedy was the first hundred things, but can we
television president. Now, find one thing or two things
Trump is our first through- that we agree on? Common
and-through social media ground?
president. His Twitter offer-
Craig Teicher
ings have very often set the
news agenda for any given
day, any given week, any
given month.
In such a polarized time,
what do you hope read-
ers will take away from
What Unites Us?
The book is not meant to
provide answers. My hope
is to start and keep going a
conversationincluding a
conversation about what,
in the second decade of the
21st-century, patriotism
is. I think there are core What Unites Us: A Conversation
values in the United States with Dan Rather
in which the overwhelm- Saturday, November 4, 12 p.m.
ing majority still believes. First Baptist Church
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 DONT MISS THIS
Highlights of the Festival
This years Texas Book Festival, in downtown Austin on November
4 and 5, has lots of everything, including mesmerizing storytelling,
truth-telling nonfiction, politics, world-famous celebrities, and new
writers to discover.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4
10 AM
Sisters First! A Celebra-
tion of Sisterhood with
Jenna Bush Hager and
Barbara Pierce Bush
State Capital, House Chamber.
See p. 12.
12 PM
What Unites Us: A
Conversation with Dan
Rather
First Baptist Church. Tickets
are $22.95 and include a copy
of Rathers book What Unites
Us. See p. 6.
12 PM
Falsehoods, Forgeries,
and Fake News: Sorting
Bunk from Brilliance
with Jared Yates Sexton
and Kevin Young
C-Span/Book TV Tent. See
p. 24.
12:15 PM
Family History with
Hala Alyan and Min
Jin Lee
State Capital, Extension Room
2.014. See p. 22.
12:15 PM
A Conversation with
Mark Bittman
Cooking Tent. See p. 28.
12:30 PM
Evils Many Clothes
with Dan Chaon and
Benjamin Percy
State Capital, Extension Room
2.026. For folks who crave
adrenaline rushes, this panel
features Chaon, whose Ill Will
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delves into recovered memories
and introspective turmoil, along
with Percy, whose The Dark
Net imagines a not-too-distant
future in which maleficent
forces take over the underbelly
of the internet.
12:30 PM
Wonder Women with
Carina Chocano and Anne
Helen Petersen
State Capital, Extension Room
2.010. See p. 24.
1:45 PM
Unraveling WWII with
Cristina Garcia and
Rodrigo Hasbn
State Capital, Extension Room
2.026. See p. 22.
2 PM
Be Fierce: A Conver-
sation with Gretchen
Carlson
First United Methodist Church.
See p. 14.
novel.
2:15 PM
Black Poets Speak Out
with Mahogany Brown,
Tyehimba Jess, Amanda
Johnson, and Kevin Young
State Capital, House Chamber.
A stellar lineup of contem-
porary versifiers, including
Pulitzer-winner Jess, read from
their work.
2:30 PM
Walter Isaacson: The
Pioneering Passion of
Leonardo Da Vinci
State Capital, House Cham-
ber. The bestselling author
of preeminent biographies of
Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin,
and Henry Kissinger discusses
his most recent work, Leonardo
Da Vinci, which takes on the
worlds most creative genius.
3 PM
In Conversation: Jeffrey
Eugenides and Claire
Messud
First United Methodist Church.
See p. 18.
4:30 PM
Tom Hanks in Conversa-
tion with Lawrence Wright
What do you do next if you are
legendary writer, actor, producer,
and director Tom Hanks? Write
a short story collection, of
course.Tickets sold out.
Nuttings Made for Love tells
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5
12:30 PM
Romantic Rendezvous:
Romance Authors on
Their Latest
Omni Hotel Ballroom. Sherry
Thomas, Cat Sebastian, Alisha
Rai, and Mia Sosa, discuss the
distinctive ways they are each
re-envisioning the romance
12:30 PM
Jennifer Egan in Con-
versation with Elizabeth
McCracken
State Capital, House Chamber.
See p. 20.
2 PM
The Roots of Racism
with Carol Anderson and
Angela J. Davis
C-Span/Book TV Tent. See
p. 24.
Tom Hanks
Austin Hargrave
2:30 PM
What We Talk About
When We Talk About
Everything with Saman-
tha Irby and Scaachi Koul
State Capital, Extension Room
E2.014. See p. 10.
2:45 PM
Second Time Around
with Lindsay Hunter and
Alissa Nutting
State Capital, Extension Room
E2.016. This panel features
two young fiction writers with
second novels. Hunters Eat
Only When You Are Hungry fol-
lows a man on a cross-country
road trip in search of his son.
the riotously funny story of
how far a father will go for his
daughters love and how far
she will go to escape it.
Cassandra Bugge and
Craig Teicher
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 The Healing
Power of Laughter
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ssayist and humor-
ist Samantha Irby
started as a blogger
(at bitchesgottaeat.com).
Her new book, We Are
Never Meeting in Real Life,
wrestles deeplyand hilari-
ouslywith everything from
Irbys struggles with Crohns
disease and anxiety, to the
ridiculousness of dieting,
and the ways white culture
silences black women.
Is your humor a defense,
or a way to metabolize
the trauma, or is it some-
thing else?
If something is happening to
me, my brain immediately
notes the most absurd parts
of it, or the parts I can laugh
at. That has always been
my coping mechanism,
probably from childhood.
Its easy for me to find the
comedic silver lining of
situations. Something hor-
rible happens, and Im like,
Im gonna write about it.
Its gonna be really hard.
But then Im like, I cant
believe they cut off a $60
bra to hook up this EKG. I
think that is naturally how I
process things. Rather than
looking at this huge tragedy,
look at this other hilarious
thing thats happened to me.
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Samantha Irby
Its easy for me to find
the comedic silver lining
of situations.
At one point you ask:
Do black girls even get
to be depressed? Your
work exposes so many
ways in which white
culture silences, and
categorizes, and disbe-
lieves black women. Can
you talk about how your
work could change this,
moving women of color
into a place of empower-
ing speech?
I feel its just enough to see
black people doing regular
stuff. Like Hidden Figures
is amazing, and its like,
Kirsten Jennings
Whoa, look at these black
geniuses. Look at these
heroes. But I think it is
deeply valuable to just see
black people living regular,
complex lives. I mean there
are so many stereotypes
about black women that can
be chipped away at. Its not
always struggles with our
fathers, abandonment by
the fathers of our children.
I dont have it in me to
march or rally, but I can talk
about being depressed. I
mean, the stigma on mental
health within our com-
munity is still a thing we
have to get over, but again,
talking about it, and letting
other people feel like they
can talk about it, is sort of
normalizing everything we
go through. Also, making
people laugh about it. It
doesnt have to be so seri-
ous, either.
You maintain an avid
social media presence.
Do you worry about
trolls?
I dont because I dont do
the kind of work that gets
trolled too much. All of my
criticisms and lenses are
turned in on myself, and
its like, really, youve got
to be a special kind of
asshole to go after someone
whos just makes fun of
herself all the time.
Brenda Shaughnessy
Nasty Women Get Things Done
with Kate Harding, Samantha
Irby, and Samhita Mukopadhyay
Sunday, November 5, 11:30 a.m.
Capitol Extension, Room E2.012
What We Talk About When We
Talk About Everything with
Samantha Irby and Scaachi Koul
Sunday, November 5, 2 p.m.
Capitol Extension, Room E2.014
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SISTERS
IN AND OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT
Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush

Nathan R. Congleton

In Sisters First, the Bush twins celebrate their bond and
share private memories of their famous family
Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce
Bush are known everywhere as the
children and grandchildren of two
U.S. presidents, but talking to them,
its immediately clear that they are, as
the title of their new book says, sisters
first. Jenna calls Barbara sissyshort
for sisterand while its also im-
mediately obvious that theyre very
different people, theyre deeply in
sync. One of the themes of our lives
is, we have this person whos given us
a voice or listened to our voice. Were
twins, so in some ways weve spoken
for each other, says Jenna, who is a
correspondent on the Today show, has
written two childrens books, and has
previously appeared at the festival,
which was founded by her mother.
We had always daydreamed of
writing a book together, but it was
always an idea in our heads that we
just liked to talk about, says Barbara,
who is the CEO and cofounder of
Things feel very divisive right now,
and politics feel very different than
when we were growing up.
Global Health Corps, an organization
that supports global health leaders.
Weve always known how lucky we
are to have had the life weve had,
she continues.
The idea for a book gathered
steam when Jenna was pregnant with
her second daughter. We wanted
Mila to get excited for her new little
sister, which got us talking at the time
about a book about being sisters, says
Barbara. Around the 2016 campaign
and election, the idea went from day-
dream to plan.
It was so clear, with the campaign
and the broader language around
women, how important it is to build
women up right now, says Barbara.
The sisters see the book as a personal
way to combat the reductive effect
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of boiling everything down to tweets
and Facebook posts. It was important
to us to write about the people that
we love who are public figures and
show more sides to them to make
them more complete people. That is
so much of what is missing right now
in the dialogue around issues in our
country. It seems like were just seeing
people for three attributes of them-
selves rather than who they truly are as
a full human being, Barbara continues.
Were not talking about political
parties, Jenna adds. Were talking
about decency and kindness and
humility. Our grandpa never talked
about himself. He still never talks
about himself. I learned things about
him through reading biographies
because he would never brag or show
Rich with scientic, historical,
off, and people may not know that
about him.
and cultural insights, this
While Sisters First is by no means a spellbinding cautionary tale
political book, it speaks deeply to the shines a light on one of
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safer, healthier eating for
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each other and their close bond with
the members of their famous family.
Things feel very divisive right now,
and politics feel very different than
when we were growing up, says Bar-
bara. Weve always had someone that
has had our back and thought that we
were enough and supported us in the
decisions we were making and the risks
we were talking, she continues. We
both realized how grateful we are.
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 Short Lives and
Growing Pains
Uncover
Uncoveryour
yournext
nextobsession
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F
resh Complaint is Given that many of
Pulitzer-winner these stories are set
Jeffrey Eugenidess in the recent past, I
first short story collec- was struck by the ways
tion. Claire Messuds new that they heralded or
novel, The Burning Girl, seemed to reference
follows Julia and Cassie, our current situation
two teenagers from a in ways you couldnt
Massachusetts town who have known at the
have been inseparable time.
since early childhood, I was surprised that a
but drift apart as they story like Great Experi-
come-of-age. The authors ment, which I wrote in
talked to us about the 2005, has more relevance
challenges and rewards of today, perhaps, than it did
short fiction and writing then. It concerns the dis-
younger characters, as tance America has trav-
well as what it means to eled from its origins as re-
write literature in these ported by de Tocqueville.
crazy times. I wrote it pre-crisis, before
the Great Recession, but
JEFFREY EUGENIDES now it seems to anticipate
How different are nov- all that.
els and stories for you?
Well, novels are longer. Whats a literary au-
But that doesnt mean thors job right now,
theyre harder to write. in this very strained
In some way, stories are and strange political
the more demanding climate?
form. Theyre unforgiv- To ignore it at least
ing and confining. The enough to be able to
way I went about writing work90% of the great
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thesebooks
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large expanse, or even the authors had thought
the entirety, of a char- about their jobs, none
acters lifeand then to of it would have got writ-
Follow
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more! decant that brew into ten or been any good.
30 or 40 pages. With a The crucial thing is to
story, youre going for take notice of whats
maximum densitywith a happening around you,
novel maximum expres- or of what you remember
sion and fluency. having happened in the

18
past. The significance,
political or otherwise,
will arise out of that
sustained attention to
detail and commitment
to accuracy.
CLAIRE MESSUD
How much of your
own life do you bring
into your fiction?
I dont write autobio-
graphically. I feel much
freer when I make things
up. That said, we are all
inevitably constrained
by our experiences and
our imaginations, and in
some ways the character
of Juliain her caution, sometimes we achieve
pessimism, and careful-
nessis somebody closer isnt necessarily closure.
to me temperamentally
Claire Messud Ulf Andersen
than some of the others
in the book. So it was
more natural for me to
write in her voice.
Your protagonists are
teens, but this is an
adult novel. Do you
think it will appeal to
YA readers as well?
My hope is that any
reader will and can
read the novel. When I
was young, there really
werent YA novels. There
were books about young,
old, middle-age, and
children protagonists and
they were for everybody. childrens publishing
childrens publishing group
group
The stories of young
people are a part of life.
They are universal stories.
Moreover, those years A lifelong love of
between 12 and 16 mark
and shape us. We become reading starts here.
the adults that we be-
come because of them.
What do you hope
readers take away
from The Burning
Girl?
Sometimes we sim-
plify or bring order to life
when life is messy, and
closure where there
I wanted to leave the
Jeffrey Eugenides Marco Anelli
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for him or herself and to
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participate in interpreting Enter to
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In Conversation: Jeffrey
Eugenides and Claire Messud
Saturday, November 4, 3 p.m.
Central Presbyterian Church
200 E. 8th St.

Jennifer Egan
Manhattan Beach is Egans first historical novel. The success of A
Visit from the Goon Squad and the surprising challenges of wrap-
ping her mind around the past made it unexpectedly tough to write.
J
ennifer Egan is a
famous novelist these
days. Her 2010 novel,
A Visit from the Goon
Squad, won the National
Book Critics Circle Award
and the Pulitzer Prize right
after, catapulting Egan to in-
ternational literary stardom.
Sudden fame, among other
factors, made writing her
next novel harder.
I was well aware, says
Egan, that a lot of writers
dont have that opportunity
even once in their career,
much less twice, so I figured,
this is my shot, and I tried
to really maximize it. What
that meant was that while
I had been researching
Manhattan Beach since 2004
in fits and starts, I didnt
really sit down to write it in
earnest until after the New
Year in 2012.
She felt pressure due to
the success of Goon Squad,
plus she had to spend a lot
of time promoting the book
that she might have other-
wise used to write. And she
had two small children. And
Manhattan Beach is Egans
first historical novel, mean-
ing it presented a whole set
of newthough ultimately
excitingchallenges.
20 PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM
history lessons
What are they nostalgic
for? What is the collective
memory? Both superficially
and deeply.
It took her about two
years until, she says, I felt
At one point, she continued, the research coalescing in
I really thought I just may
not have it in me to do this,
and may have moved too far
outside of my skill set.
The novel, set in 1930s
and 40s New York, follows
Anna Kerrigan, a young
woman whose father
struggles to support his wife
and two daughters, one of
whom is severely disabled
and his work leads him into
New Yorks underworld.
By the time Annas grown,
her father has mysteriously
disappeared, and WWII
opens the opportunity for
Pieter M. Van Hattem
Anna to become the first
female civilian diver at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, while 1940s New York: Theres my brain. In the third year,
she also dives deeper into a kind of deep engagement she was able to begin really
her fathers disappearance. that I need to feel with writing, and, she says, It
Casting her imagination characters that requires a lot was just thrilling to feel
back to midcentury wasnt more than knowing what versatile and transported
easy for Egan. I begin with theyre wearing. It requires, into another time. In the
a time and a place, but no especially, a sense of what process, Egan caught the
characters or plot, says the past is for them. historical fiction bug: It
Egan. Even though I had That meant researching was totally worth the two
vague notions of areas of not just the past but the past years of sufferingin fact, I
interest, like diving and the of the past. What I realized want it again.
Brooklyn Navy Yard, I really with a kind of dawning hor-
Craig Teicher
didnt know what my story ror, Egan says, was that
was. I didnt know what it was really about feeling
specific things I needed to deeply what the past would
know. be for people of all ages Jennifer Egan in Conversation
Getting to the heart of alive in that time. What are with Elizabeth McCracken
her characters required more people thinking about? What Sunday, November 5, 1 p.m.
than simply knowing about are they reacting against? Capitol Auditorium
 Comic Timing
The festival is hosting a wide range of comics and graphic novel events.
Here are some of our favorites.

Gene Luen Yang, used with permission of First Second Books

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5

11:30 AM 12 PM 12:45 PM 12:45 PM

Moving Memory and
Collapsing Time in
Graphic Novel
State Capital, Extension Room
2.036. Kristin Radtke and Les-
lie Stein discuss how they draw
out the past and render the
everyday in their new books.
In the Gray Areas
YA HQ. Brandy Colbert, Julie
Murphy, and Tillie Walden talk
about their graphic books for
YA readers.
Literally Inspired
State Capital, Room E2.030
William Schwalbe and Tom
Gauld discuss cartoons in-
spired by literature.
Books Bring Us
Together
Middle Grade Tent. David
Barclay Moore, Ellen Oh, and
Gene Luen Yang, National
Ambassador for Young Peoples
literature, talk about how books
create community.

Calvin Reid

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 Rewriting History
Cristina Garcia and Min Jin Lee
L
ately, it can feel like
there are far too
many current events
for anyone to process.
Looking to the past is one
antidote. Historical fiction
has the power to grant us
a reprieve from the present
while also illuminating
the contemporary world.
Cuban-American author
Cristina Garcia imagines
post-WWII Berlin in her
latest novel, Here in Berlin,
through the eyes of a name-
less traveler. Garcia found
her story after spending
three months in that city in
2013, intending to write a
very different book. Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee is a multigen-
erational saga about a Korean
family that settled 100 years
ago in Japan, where they
face constant discrimination
as they struggle to find their
place. We asked these two
22 PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM
writers about what it takes
to rewrite history.
What got you started on
your historical deep dive?
GARCIA: The narrative
ended up claiming me. I
was essentially looking for
any kind of evidence of
Cubas long association with
the Soviet bloc. But to my
surprise I didnt find much.
Just as in Cuba, there isnt
much evidence. I started
nosing around and going
to museums and talking
to people. I went to Berlin
One room was filled with news
clippings and photographs of East
German spies, just like you might find
in a room with plaques celebrating
someones achievements.
with a different mission, and
these living ghosts are the
ones who ended up hijack-
ing the story.
LEE: I got the idea for the
book in 1989 when I was an
undergraduate in college. I
attended a lecture featuring
an American missionary
who worked with ethnic
Koreans in Japan. The
missionary explained that
Koreans arrived from
1910 to 1945, when Japan
colonized the peninsula of
Korea, and many remained
even after the Pacific War
and the Korean War. The
missionary told a powerful
story of a bullied 13-year-
old boy, and it spoke to me.
I could not get his story
out of my head, so I had to
write about it.
What did you have to do
to bring the past to life
in your imagination, or
what were the challenges
of writing a historical
novel?
GARCIA: The kind of infor-
mation I got came quite
informally. I was sitting
in a cafe and struck up a
conversation, or I was in
a Zumba class and made
friends. I met a young art
historian who told me
about his grandmother. I
just sort of let the city talk
to me. I also went to the
Stasi headquarters museum
in East Berlin. At one time,
this was the most feared
institution in East Germany.
There were all kinds of
family photographs hanging
on the walls. One room was
filled with news clippings
and photographs of East
German spies, just like
you might find in a room
with plaques celebrating
someones achievements.
Thats when the seed was
planted: What happened to
these people who were loyal
to the system once the wall
came down.
LEE: For me, writing a
historical novel was really
hard. I love history as a
subject and majored in it
in college. I think in a way,
my training made it worse
for me, because I knew how
important it was to focus on
document-based analysis,
and I really didnt want to
get stuff wrong. Moreover, I
couldnt eliminate or disre-
gard the points of view that
are so often marginalized or
erased in traditional histori-
cal works. I took such a long
time with this book because
The missionary told a powerful story of
a bullied 13-year-old boy, and it spoke
to me. I could not get his story out of
my head, so I had to write about it.
I had this grave or absurd
sense of responsibility to so
many groups in my mind. I
probably know a lot more
than I needed to write this
book, but its too late now.
What did writing these
books reveal to you
about the past that we
still need to know in the
present?
GARCIA: Berlin is fascinating
because it was built entirely
anew after 1945. There was
literally nothing left. They
call it Jahre Null, year zero.
Everything that has been
built since the rubble was
cleared is a vision of how
the Germans want to see
themselves, but to me the
past still lives underneath
these grand parks and bour-
geois cafes.
LEE: When I first started, I
thought it would be clever
to call the book Motherland,
because so many Korean-
Japanese feel stateless.
However, after my research
and interviews, I realized
that their primary response
to their statelessness was
not to feel homeless, but
rather to be actively resilient
in the face of their stark
reality. The pinball-like
game pachinko, which
is deeply woven into the
novels fabric, serves as a
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but for me, it is primarily and Hala Alyan
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 Real News
Carino Chocano, Angela J. Davis, and Kevin Young
W
hatever your politics, its
been a crazy year. There
are endless questions to
ask and too few clear answers. Per-
haps that makes this a good time to
be a nonfiction writer. We talked
to three authors whose new books
investigate sexism in Hollywood, the
unjust treatment of black men by
police, and the history and seductive-
ness of fake news. They are asking
some of the true questions to which
we crave true answers.
L. to r.: Carino Chocano Titia Vermeer, Angela J.
Davis Lukas North, and Kevin Young Melanie Dunea
LEADING LADIES: CARINO CHOCANO
Chocano, a former TV and movie crit-
ic, got fed up with one-dimensional
female characters. Her new essay col-
lection, You Play the Girl: On Playboy
Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks &
Other Mixed Messages, offers a passion-
ate critique of sexism in Hollywood.
Was there a particular film that
got you going on this book?
Knocked Up. I expected to like it, but I
didnt, at all. But I was really nervous
about not liking it. I felt like I couldnt
say anything bad about it, or Id be
attacked. Katherine Heigl told Vanity
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Fair that it was a little sexist, and the
backlash was massive; it pretty much
ended her career. Actress Isla Fisher
had suffered the same kind of attacks
after Wedding Crashers, when she told
an interviewer that all of the scripts
she saw are for men, offering women
the option to play the girl in the
hot rod. I thought the hostility just
proved that she was right.
Do you think things have gotten
any better over the last few years?
I intended to write this book in 2009,
but I put it aside and picked it back up
again because the culture was starting
to become more open and you could
talk about these things. But every
time theres a new surge of feminism,
theres also a backlash. Its a cycle. I
think that women have really changed
and people have changed, but the
system hasnt changed. Yes, its easier
to talk about this now than even seven
years ago, but theres danger in just
thinking we are done progressing.
Do you feel hopeful about better
roles for female actresses in the
future?
Its gotten a lot better among the new
digital players, especially compared
to movies and network TV. There are
more women writing, and there are
more dynamic female characters. In
a lot of new shows like, Orange Is the
New Black, you are seeing individual
characters who are really vastly differ-
ent from each other. In the opening
credits, you see all of those different
faces, many that you would never see
on TV before. It just shows you the
range of things that we hadnt been
seeing. So there is hope, but we still
have a long way to go.
Dianna Dilworth
POLICING THE JUSTICE SYSTEM:
ANGELA J. DAVIS
Davis, a law professor and former
director of the D.C. Public Defender
Service, edits Policing the Black Man,
a powerful collection of essays on the
treatment of African-Americans by the
U.S. criminal justice system.
You make a profound statement at
the opening of your introduction
by naming many of the victims
who have died at the hands of the
police: Michael Brown, Eric Gar-
ner, Tamir Rice, among others.
These men are the inspiration for the
volume. These awful killings made
the nation and the world start to pay
attention to what is going on in our
criminal justice system, in terms of
how black men and boys are treated.
The idea was to put together a group
of essays that would discuss, explore,
and contextualize these killings.
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What did you find most shocking explore.
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 Meat and Veggies
Mark Bittman and Gail Simmons have a way with food.
Whatever you want, they can cook it, and show you how.

GAIL SIMMONS If you take the time to read through each recipe before
The popular Top Chef judge had been contemplating a cook- you start and are prepared and focused, then any dish in the
book for several years, but it took a trip to Singapore during book is doable, no matter what level youre at, Simmons says.
the filming of season seven to convince her that it was finally The hokkien noodles and the Vietnamese omelet are
time to share her wealth of recipes with the public. among the books many recipes that are accompanied by a
I did this incredible food tour of about 16 or 17 different beautiful photo of the finished dish. Pictures guide the reader
Singapore street food stalls one day, Simmons recalls. And while they are cooking as to how the finished dish should
there was this one dish with hokkien noodles that captivated look, Simmons says. They also make it appealing, so the
me. I couldnt get it out of my head, but when I came home reader wants to make it again and again.
to New York I couldnt find
it. I realized the only way to MARK BITTMAN
eat this dish and curb the Bright, full-color photo-
craving was to figure out graphs are a new addition
how to make it myself. to Bittmans How to Cook
Thats exactly what she Everything Vegetarian: Com-
did. Her first order of busi- pletely Revised 10th Anniver-
ness was resolving how best sary Edition.
to take the original recipe There was clearly an
and simplify it so that it audience that we were miss-
made sense for an American ing with the first edition and
kitchen while still maintain- thats people who want their
ing the authentic flavors. cookbooks to be beautiful,
The biggest hurdle with Bittman says. So we took
that recipe was an Asian cit- a look at the original book
rus fruit called calamondin, and thought, We could do
she says. You cant buy it in a great job by scaling back
the States fresh because of a little of the comprehen-
FDA laws. In order to make siveness and adding what
the dish legally, but still true amounts to beauty.
to the original flavor, Sim- In addition to pictures,
mons did some tinkering and the cookbook features
found that a mix of lime and updated recipes that include
orange juice did the trick. less eggs, cheese, and other
It was with that dish Burcu Avsar & Zach DeSart dairy and more fruits, veg-
that I realized, Im doing etables, and whole grains.
this all the time with all different foods and recipes. I want to When we set out to do the original, I said, I dont want
share it, she says. That moment when I figured out the hok- to do the Moosewood Cookbook for the 21st century, Bittman
kien noodle dish gave me confidence in my own recipes. explains. Not that I dont love the Moosewood Cookbook. I grew
In Bringing It Home, Simmons shares 100 original dishes up with it, but what Moosewood did, among other things, was
that she cultivated from her travels across the globe. While take meat out of recipes, and put in eggs, cheese, and dairy. I
ingredients for the Singapore-style hokkien noodles and the didnt want to do that. But then, a year or two after that book
Vietnamese omelet with shrimp and fried scallops might seem came out, I looked at it and I thought, thats exactly what we
intimidating, each of the books recipes is clear-cut and leaves did! This book has way too much eggs and dairy in it.
little guess work for even the most novice chef. Not to worry. Eggs and cheese are still a part of the new

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edition. So are recipes for smoothies, veggie burgers, pan-
cakes, and every kind of tofu you could imagine, including
fried tofu wontons with chives.
Im not advocating a 100% plant-based diet, says Bitt-
man, who is vegan up until 6 p.m. every day. Im just saying,
people should all be eating more plant-based food. Im not
saying, dont eat meat, Im not saying, dont eat animal prod-
ucts. Im just saying, eat less, eat better.
Equipped with the recipes from both Bittmans and Sim-
monss new books, eating better shouldnt be too difficult. But
eating less? That might be impossible.

Addie Morfoot

A Conversation with Gail Simmons Brings it Home

Mark Bittman Sunday, November 5
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