While I’m doing my two BookExpo America panels on May 29, the Los Angeles Public Library will be hosting a panel on “Hot Books for Fall” with input from editors David Ebershoff (Random House), Morgan Entrekin (Grove/Atlantic), Sarah Knight (Henry Holt), Philip Turner (Union Square Press), and Claire Wachtel (HarperCollins). I wonder who’ll be the first person to mention The 19th Wife, Ebershoff’s novel about the last bride of Brigham Young—which has been promoted to book review editors for months with a series of mysterious counting-up postcards until the galleys showed up in our mailboxes last week. Then again, since it’s an August release, maybe it doesn’t quite count for “fall” in this context.
(My operating assumption here is that somebody should mention this book; I haven’t had a chance to start it yet, but I’ve been a fan of Ebershoff’s since The Danish Girl, so I expect good things from it.)
The panel is part of Library Journal‘s annual “Day of Dialog,” which will also include discussions on the resurgence of historical fiction and the emergence of digital audio formats.