One much anticipated conference session at BEA every year is the Editors' Buzz panel, in which editors present six hotly anticipated fall books. Its track record isn't perfect -- of last year's adult books, one became a huge commercial breakout and two critical darlings -- but the curiosity renews itself anyway.
My laptop was long dead by the time yesterday's panel rolled around but I took copious notes on this year's picks, including "X meets Y" Hollywood-style descriptors and other stray comments. Click to embiggen:
