| Since its inception, Library Journal’s Day of Dialog has introduced librarians to the best of what is now BookExpo, and this year is no different. Topnotch thriller writers Chris Pavone and Karin Slaughter will discuss their genre with an assist from folks like New York Times best-selling Riley Sager and award-winning Upstate author Kalisha Buckhanon. New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman, MacArthur Fellow Ben Lerner, National Book Award finalist Téa Obreht, LibraryReads favorite J. Ryan Stradal, and LJ-starred SF newcomer Cadwell Turnbull all enrich fiction panels covering first novels, literary historical works, and “community reads”—stories of personal and familial relationships that will get the whole town talking. Nonfiction ranges from Nefertiti Austin's Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender and Parenting in America, Jaquira Díaz's Ordinary Girls, and Aarti Namdev Shahani's Here We Are to works by MoveOn’s Karine Jean-Pierre and James Poniewozik, chief television critic of the New York Times. As always, the event will open with the popular Editors’ Picks panel, with panelists ranging from Knopf executive editor Jordan Pavlin to Amistad editorial director Tracy Sherrod to Dan Zitt, a major force behind Penguin Random House Audio. The day closes with our first-ever Graphic Novels panel, featuring GN movers-and-shakers Kim Deitch and Gary Groth from Fantagraphics Books and razzle-dazzle DC Comics powers Kelly Sue DeConnick and Sean Murphy for a discussion not just of individual titles but of the history, future, and wide range of this format. What’s more, we’ve built in break time after every author panel so that you can get books signed and chat with the authors—as well as your librarian colleagues.
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