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Leaving New England: PW Profiles Tracy Kidder
PW Interview with author Tracy Kidder
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A Model Family: PW Talks with Eugenia Kim
In Eugenia Kim's elegant debut, The Calligrapher's Daughter, a young woman comes of age in tumultuous early 20th-century Korea as the country is ravaged by Japan.
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Sedaris Small City Tour Playing Big
David Sedaris is drawing big crowds at the small cities he is hitting as part of his tour for the paperback release of When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
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Q & A with Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Author of more than 125 books, including 1992 Newbery winner Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor sets her latest novel, Faith, Hope, and Ivy June, in Kentucky. Bookshelf spoke to Naylor about her new book.
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Q&A: Geoff Johns Prepares for 'Blackest Night'
One of DC's biggest sales successes is the revitalization of their space-bound hero Green Lantern. Driven by fan-favorite writer Geoff Johns, test pilot Hal Jordan and his fellow Green Lanterns square off against an army of multi-colored Lantern Corps in the epic Blackest Night, and Johns opened up about building an accessible mythology with an emotional base and Green Lantern's potential for success as a Hollywood blockbuster.
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Death & Laughter: A Conversation with Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper follows a tumultuous week in the life of Judd Foxman as he confronts a dying marriage, a dead father, infertility and infidelity in This Is Where I Leave You. It's funny.
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A Hollywood Novel That Isn't: PW profiles Chandler Burr
When Chandler Burr was 23 and backpacking around the world, he made a last stop in Israel. At the Western Wall, he was approached by “a young, shortish man of indeterminate age. Wispy beard, a little overweight, white and blue knit kippa” who asked, “Are you Jewish?” Burr said, “Yes. -
Ghana, Not Forgotten: A conversation with Kwei Quartey
Kwei Quartey, the son of an African-American mother and African father, is a doctor in the U.S. but he grew up in Ghana where he’s set his first novel, Wife of the Gods (Reviews, Apr. 13). How did the idea come to you of setting a whodunit in contemporary Ghana? I was visiting Paris for a few days—at the time I’d been trying to write a mystery set in L.
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BookExpo America 2009: Author Breakfast Pairs Memoir with Comedy
Craig Ferguson, host of The Late Late Show, author of the memoir American on Purpose (HarperCollins), and self-titled “illiterate boob” emceed the Author Breakfast on Saturday at the Javits Center’s Special Events Hall, which he jokingly likened to a “café in Paris.”
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Q & A with Sandra Day O'Connor
Bookshelf spoke with former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor about her new picture book, Finding Susie (Knopf).
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R.L. Stine Visits Chinese Fans
Published in the U.S. by Scholastic, R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps novels have sold more than five million copies in China since 2002, when Jieli Publishing House launched the series there. Stine spent two weeks touring five cities across the country.
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Cooking the Books with the Neelys
Pat and Gina Neely co-own two Neely's Bar-B-Que restaurants in Memphis and one in Nashville, and star in Down Home with the Neelys on the Food Network. Knopf published their first book, Down Home with the Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook, earlier. They stopped in New York on their 13-city tour, and squeezed in a few minutes to talk to PW and offered a few tips for summertime grilling: have fun and don’t forget the cocktails.
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The Elegance of Muriel: An Author Profile of Muriel Barbery
Muriel Barbery is lovely, not unlike the exquisite prose of her runaway hit novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Why a hedgehog? She shakes her head. “The whole time [the novel] was just called 'Renee' [the name of the narrator, the concierge in a ritzy Parisian apartment building], but we wanted something joyful, mysterious.
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Snake Hunter: A Conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe
Countless Chinese arrived illegally in America with the help of the notorious Sister Ping, the eponymous subject of Patrick Radden Keefe's The Snakehead (Reviews, May 11). What first attracted you to the story of Sister Ping? She seemed like such a fascinating, brilliant, roguish character, and a Horatio Alger—style immigrant success story who, for all her crimes, remains revered in Chin...
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Author Q&A: Robert Wright: 'God's Character Changes a Lot'
In his provocative and thoughtful new book, The Evolution of God (Little, Brown), Robert Wright, author of The Moral Animal (1995) and Nonzero (2001), discusses with Henry L. Carrigan Jr. a new look at the ways in which science can offer compelling insights into the nature of religion and the keys that religious communities hold to opening the doors to harmony among the world’s religions.
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Visiting Bookstores Virtually
Two Random House Children’s Books authors have recently embarked on national book tours—without hitting the road. Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl, Knopf) and Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing, Delacorte) are promoting the recent paperback editions of their bestselling novels with virtual bookstore “appearances” to launch the Dial Into Summer program.
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Meeting Rick Riordan: Claire and Rachel’s Excellent Adventure
PW’s Midwest correspondent takes her daughter on a road trip to meet Percy Jackson creator Rick Riordan.
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Q & A with Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Bookshelf spoke with children's author Amy Krouse Rosenthal about her four spring picture books.
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Tatsumi Talks About A Drifting Life
A guest at the recent PEN World Voices Festival in New York City, Tatsumi was on hand to discuss his creation of his acclaimed manga autobiography, A Drifting Life
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The Monday Interview: Leslie M. Pockell
An interview with Leslie M. Pockell, editor of 100 Essential American Poems, which was just published by St. Martin’s Thomas Dunne Books.
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