Jon Stewart, whose new book Earth comes out from Grand Central in September, told the Adult Book Breakfast audience at BEA that when he read in the New York Times that the book industry was dead, he thought, “Oh, good, I don’t have to get up early tomorrow.” Stewart kept the crowd laughing as he introduced fellow authors John Grisham, Condoleezza Rice, and Mary Roach. Welcoming Rice to the podium, he said, “I’m not familiar with her work, but I hear good things.” Rice promised the audience that she would write the book of her eight years in the White […]
