PW Talks with Joshua Ferris by Shaun Manning - 11/16/2009
"We're always sort of grasping at hope. The answer is always right around the corner, and yet it eludes us."
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Cooking the Books with Luisa Weiss By Lynn Andriani - 11/09/2009
Cookbook editor and food blogger Luisa Weiss recently sold a memoir, My Berlin Kitchen, to Viking. On her blog, The Wednesday Chef, Weiss explained, “I'm moving back to Berlin and I'm writing a book, about Berlin, about my life, about cooking and home and family and love.” She talked to PW from her office at Stewart, Tabori and Chang, where she’s wrapping things up before departing for Berlin in December.
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The Monday Interview: Mary Karr By Dick Donahue - 11/09/2009
An interview with Mary Karr, whose new memoir, Lit, was published November 3 by Harper.
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PW Talks with Jonathan Dee by Marya Spence - 11/09/2009
To the fantastically successful family in Jonathan Dee's The Privileges, failure is foreign, and money is not money. Is this perilous? Perhaps.
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PW Talks with Leila Meacham by Melissa Mia Hall - 11/02/2009
Leila Meacham makes a grand return after a 20-year absence with Roses, a compelling East Texas saga with echoes of Gone with the Wind.
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Q & A with Amy Astley By Sophia Bennett Holmes - 10/29/2009
Q: What were you hearing from your readers that gave you the idea for this book?
A: I'm always around high school and college-age girls, and they all ask me the same questions: How do I get an internship? What should I study in college? Should I go to design school? What kind of education do I need for different jobs? I thought, We need a book that encapsulates advice about how to break in, how to stand out...
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Cooking the Books with Ann Mah By Lynn Andriani - 10/26/2009
Former Viking assistant editor Ann Mah left New York for Beijing, took a job as the dining editor for the English-language magazine That’s Beijing, and wrote a novel about a young Chinese-American woman who moves to Beijing in the midst of an identity crisis. Mah spoke to PW from Paris, where she now lives, about Kitchen Chinese: A Novel about Food, Family, and Finding Yourself, which Avon will publish as a paperback original in February.
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