The following BIO members have new books out this month:   

• Peter Benjaminson, The Life and Times of Betty Boop: The 100-Year History of an Animated Icon (Applause) 
• Susan Blumberg-Kason, Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China (Post Hill Press) 
• Stephen Dando-Collins, Seven Against Thebes: The Quest of the Original Magnificent Seven (Turner)
• Danny Fingeroth, Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin (Chicago Review Press) 
• Barbara D. Savage, Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of A Black Woman Scholar (Yale University Press) 

Three BIO members have new paperback editions out in November:  

• Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (Penguin Books)  
• Lyndall Gordon, The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse (W. W. Norton & Company) 
• Aidan Levy, Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins (Hachette Books) 

Two BIO members have secured new book deals:

• Devoney Looser has secured a book deal for Wild for Austen, a collection of 25 essays exploring Jane Austen’s writing, life, and legacy, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of her birth. It was sold to St. Martin’s Press by Stacey Glick at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. 
• Adam Henig is under contract to Rowman & Littlefield for Baseball’s Outlaw: The Story of Ron LeFlore.

 The November episodes of the BIO Podcast are as follows:  

• November 3: Ilyon Woo, author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Simon & Schuster, 2023), in conversation with Kitty Kelley. 
• November 10: Thomas Hertog, author of On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory (Bantam, 2023), in conversation with John A. “Jack” Farrell. 
• November 17: Mary Ann Caws, author of Mina Loy: Apology of Genius (Reaktion Books, 2022), in conversation with Jennifer Skoog.  
• November 24: Edward O’Shea, author of Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey (Routledge, 2022), in conversation with Kitty Kelley. 

Additionally: 

Eve Kahn is giving a talk about her subject, “Zoey Anderson Norris: Gilded Age Journalist and Homeless Rights Advocate,” as part of the Malkin Lecture Series, on December 4, at the Park Avenue Armory, in New York City. More information and tickets are available here. 

Steve Kemper has received the 2023 Dillon Award from the American Academy of Diplomacy for the year’s best book about “the Practice of American Diplomacy” for his biography Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor (Mariner Books). Learn more here. 

Eugene L. Meyer reviewed Martin Baron’s Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post (Flatiron Books, October 2023), for the Washington Independent Review of Books. You can read the review here. 

Raquel Ramsey is working with Vanilla Fire Productions as an executive director, to bring her biography of her late sister-in-law—Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey Story—to the screen. It will premiere on Sunday, November 10, 2024, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. 

Alan K. Rode has made a number of recent video and podcast appearances, including on Saturday Night at the Movies and The Extras. You can see them here. 

Stacy Schiff gave a talk about her most recent book, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, as part of the Malkin Lecture Series, on November 14, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, with BIO Executive Director Michael Gately. More information is available here.