BEA GALLEY 2015 & Signing Guide BY BARBARA HOFFERT PrepubAlert LIBRARYJOURNAL Every year, BookExpo Digital Galleys America (BEA) is a little different. Via NetGalley This year, some publishers are (www.netgalley.com), professional readers showing up with more books, can access digital while others are focusing on author galleys, and publishers can choose how to provide access. We’ve noted signings; others have consolidated here if a title is available for request to dramatic effect. What remains or if the title is private. the same is the need for some The galley is available guidance to fi nd the books and for request. authors one really wants. Hence Readers can ask publicists for a NetGalley widget, which this annual BEA Galley & Signing can be emailed to grant approved Guide, designed to help you navigate the fl oor aisle by access for that particular title. aisle. With over 200 tiles and dozens of signings featured NOTE If you’re an ALA member, add here, you’ll be busy. A special thanks to Sourcebooks for your member number to your NetGalley Profi le to make it easier for publishers sponsoring this guide; check out its titles at booth 3039. to approve your requests! Questions? Email [email protected]. 638-639 Consortium Akashic (649A): Grab Nina Revoyr’s Sierra Nevada–based Lost Canyon and out-there Joe Meno’s Marvel and a Wonder any time (200 galleys each); on Thursday, 5/28, at 2:15 p.m., stand in line to get books signed by Kaylie Jones (The Anger Meridian), Matthew McGevna (Little Beasts), and Barbara Taylor (Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night). Bellevue Literary Press (650): Explore the impact of your surroundings (the Javits Center?) with top-notch science writer Colin Ellard’s Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life (50 galleys); on Thursday, 5/28, at 2:30 p.m., ask dynamo short story writer Robert Lopez to sign Good People (150 galleys). 1 Biblioasis (642A): The publisher’s fi ction goes way creepy with Anakana Schofi eld’s Martin John (100 galleys), which crawls inside a deviant’s mind; Kathy Page’s Frankie Styne and the Silver Man (50 galleys), about a vengeful author who’s physically deformed; Kevin Hardcastle’s Debris (25 galleys), a rural noir collection recalling Daniel Woodrell; and Samuel Archibald’s Quebec–best selling debut collection, Arvida (25 galleys), featuring attempted murder, ritual mutilation, haunted houses, and more. A nice nonfi ction segue: A.J. Somerset’s Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun (50 galleys). Central Recovery Press (651): Signings for self-helpers: On Wednesday, 5/27, at 3:00 p.m., Bud Mikhitarian & Greg Williams, Many Faces, One Voice: Secrets from the Anonymous People. On Thursday, 5/28, at 10:00 a.m., Linda Dahl, Loving Our Addicted Daughters Back to Life: A Guidebook for Parents; and at 1:00 p.m., Maggie Lamond Simone, Body Punishment: OCD, Addiction, and Finding the Courage To Heal. On Friday, 5/29, at 10:00 a.m., Arnie Wexler & Sheila Wexler, who with Steve Jacobsen wrote All Bets Are Off: Losers, Liars, and Recovery from Gambling Addiction. City Lights (638a): The artistically daring can look for some Shock Treatment: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition, as signed by the author, artist Karen Finley on Thursday, 5/28, at 2:00 p.m. Only 20 copies, so hurry. Coach House Books (648): A big pitch for Andrew Battershill’s Pillow (200 galleys), about an animal-loving former boxer trying to shed the life of crime. Coffee House Press (642): You can walk away from this booth with Laurie Foos’s The Blue Girl (50 galleys), about moon pies and secrets; Selah Saterstrom’s Slab (50 galleys), whose ambitious heroine rises up after Katrina; Paul Metcalf’s Genoa: A Telling of Wonders (50 galleys), an anniversary edition of the author’s meditation on great- grandfather Herman Melville; Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth (150 galleys), from the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and a National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honoree; Caroline Casey & others’ edited tome, Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong, a Kickstarted book on the Internet’s obsession with cat videos (50 galleys); Lincoln Michel’s Upright Beasts (50 galleys), short stories all about us; Brian Evenson’s A Collapse of Horses (50 galleys), stories from the literate/scary author; Pulitzer Prize fi nalist Ron Padgett’s Alone and Not Alone and Ted Mathys’s Null Set, both poetry (yes, poetry!) with 25 galleys each; Quintan Ana Wikswo’s The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far (25 galleys), stories from a human rights activist–turned–artist/author; and debut novelist Julie Iromuanya’s Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (25 galleys). Curbside Splendor Publishing (640): Doing its splendid edgy-but-readable thing, the publisher passes out Patrick Wensink’s Fake Fruit Factory, small-town black comedy; Dave Reidy’s The Voiceover Artist, about a stutterer with a dream; and Vanessa Blakeslee’s Juventud, a debut from the winner of the 2014 IPPY Gold Medal in Short Fiction. Just 20 each, though. Feminist Press at CUNY (640A): Visionaries, run to this booth for editors Alexandra Brodsky & Rachel Kauder Nalebuff’s The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future (100 galleys). Stick it out for the author signings: on Thursday, 5/28, at 2:00 p.m. by New York Times–dubbed rebel anti-caterer Rossi (The Raging Skillet: The True Life Story of Chef Rossi, 100 galleys), and on Friday, 5/29, at 2:00 p.m., by protean Sarah Schulman (The Cosmopolitans, 100 galleys), here in fi ction mode. Haymarket Books (638): Signings for the radically engaged. On Thursday, 5/28, at 1:00 p.m., American Indian studies professor Steven Salaita will sign Uncivil Rites, about his fi ring by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for tweets critical of Israel. On Friday, 5/29, at 1:00 p.m., Remi Kanazi will sign Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine, poetry that moves from Middle East crisis to U.S. militarism to Islamophobia. 2 HOUSE of THIEVES by CHARLES BELFOURE Gangs of New York meets The Age of Innocence in an exciting new novel from the author of the national bestseller The Paris Architect! 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Thursday, May 28th 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Booth #3039 3 Stonebridge Press (652): The wild at heart will want to investigate photographer Nikki Silver’s Unshaven: Modern Women, Natural Bodies, images of uninhibited women who don’t wield razors, and gender-queer porn performer Jiz Lee’s Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy, a compilation of stories about porn performers outing themselves to family and friends. 738 Perseus Books Group Giveaways, seriously: Arthur Benjamin’s The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why; Pedro Domingos’s The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World; award-winning food writer Bee Wilson’s First Bite: How We Learn To Eat (chapbooks); Meera Subramanian’s A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka; Margee Kerr’s Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear, a University of Pittsburgh sociologist’s take on why we love to be scared; Harlow Giles Unger’s Henry Clay: America’s Greatest Statesman; Stephen R. Bown’s White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic; and Ryan Berg’s No House To Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions, about his work in a group home for disowned and homeless LGBTQ teenagers. Giveaways, more lighthearted: Clara Bensen’s No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering, love and travel launched by OKCupid; Ilyse Mimoun’s Choose Your Own Love Story: Adventures in Dating, Do Overs, and Finding Your Happily Ever After; Justin Hill’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend, a novelization of the movie script based on the writings of Wang Dulu; Ali Adler’s How To F*ck a Woman (by a woman); G. Bruce Boyer’s True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear, from a Town & Country contributing fashion editor; and Dick Van Dyke with Todd Gold, Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging. In-booth signings: On Wednesday, 5/27, at 3:00 p.m., Margee Kerr, Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear. On Thursday, 5/28, at 2:00 p.m., Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi (Strong Is the New Sexy: A Kick Ass Memoir), the Jersey Shore star’s girl-power revelations on how she got in shape mentally and physically. On Friday, 5/29, at 11:00 a.m., Tim Federle (Gone with the Gin: Cocktails with a Hollywood Twist), a good, stiff drink from the author of Hickory Daiquiri Dock.