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Brooklyn Book Festival Returns by Marc Schultz - 09/13/2007
Paul Auster, Pete Hamill, Bernice McFadden and Jonathan Lethem will be among those adding literary star power to the second annual Brooklyn Book Festival, which will be held this Sunday at Brooklyn's Borough Hall and Plaza. More
Accelerate the Personal by Juan Martinez - 07/07/2008
In Downtown Owl, the pop-culture critic and Esquire columnist tries his hand at fiction by examining a small town in North Dakota (Reviews, May 5). You've published only nonfiction thus far. Why fiction now? Nonfiction is reactive. You respond to what others have done or said. With my novel, I wanted to write a reality that I could create.
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Home on the Range by Louisa Ermelino - 07/07/2008
Annie Proulx's new book, Fine Just the Way It Is (Scribner, Sept.), is the third collection in the Wyoming Stories, “the last,” Proulx says emphatically. And when Annie Proulx says it, you believe her. She wants to write about something else, she says. “I like to keep moving... shake things up.
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PW Talks with Paul and Anne Ehrlich: A Web-Exclusive Q&A by Carol White - 06/30/2008 In Dominant Animal (out today from Island Press), ecologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, who authored the highly influential The Population Bomb forty years ago, recalibrate their vision and find that, despite some progress (heading off some of their more dire 1968 predictions), our species is still overshooting the capacity of the planet to sustain itself, and must change our ways.More
Hit Parade: PW Talks with Lawrence BlockA Web-Exclusive Q&A by Jordan Foster - 06/25/2008
Prolific mystery writer Lawrence Blocks talks to PW about his latest series starring Keller, the laconic, stamp-collecting hitman on the brink of retirement. William Morrow will publish Hit and Run on June 24, which is also Block’s 70th birthday.
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Booksellers Turn Out for More on Buying Local by Judith Rosen - 06/23/2008
Less than a week after BookExpo America and the launch of IndieBound, the American Booksellers Association's program to spur the development of new buy local organizations, COO Oren Teicher unveiled the project to a broader range of businesses at the sixth annual conference of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).
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Bad Moon Setting by Elaine Vitone - 06/23/2008
After nearly four decades of marriage, Anne Roiphe's husband collapsed from a fatal heart attack in the lobby of their apartment building. In her new memoir, Epilogue (Reviews, June 6), she puts to the test the old saying, “Time is the widow's friend,” as she begins rebuilding her life. Tell me about the significance of the moon in the book.
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