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PW Talks with Micol Negrin
PW: Your cookbook, Rustico, is so comprehensive. How long did it take you to write it?
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PW Talks with Martin Cruz Smith
PW: Was there a particular seed of germination that led to the writing of December 6?
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PW Talks with Jennifer Crusie
PW: You've come up with another fun read with your 14th novel, Faking It, a romantic tale of larceny, art forgeries and wacky families. You've been an art teacher. What's the primary similarity between painting and writing?
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PW Talks with Francine Prose
PW: How did you come around to the idea of The Lives of the Muses?
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PW Talks with Bruce Feiler
PW: Were you surprised by the response to Walking the Bible?
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PW Talks with Janet Browne
PW: It's been seven years between the publication of Charles Darwin: Voyaging and your new book, subtitled The Power of Place. Where have you been all this time?
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PW Talks with J.A. Jance
PW: Why did you combine your two very different series characters, J.P. Beaumont and Sheriff Joanna Brady, in the same book?
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PW Talks with Ann M. Martin
PW: What inspired you to write A Corner of the Universe?
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PW Talks with Jack McKeown
McKeown is the president and CEO of the Perseus Book Group. PW met with him in his Park Avenue office recently to discuss Business: The Ultimate Resource.
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PW Talks to Lise McClendon
PW: Why did you choose Kansas City as the setting for your Dorie Lennox series?
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PW Talks with Philippe Petit
PW: When and why did you begin writing To Reach the Clouds?
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PW Talks with Garry Wills
PW: Your new book begins by responding, in a very personal way, to those who asked why you remain Catholic in spite of your criticism of the church. Did you feel a certain amount of discomfort in approaching the book this way?
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PW Talks with Sharon Salzberg
PW: You are a respected author and teacher of Buddhist meditation. Why did you decide to write about faith?
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PW Talks with John Miller
PW: How did you and your two coauthors get together on The Cell? How did it originate?
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PW Talks with Faye Kellerman
PW: Your latest Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel, Stone Kiss, which features some shady New York Hasidim, has stronger Jewish elements than most of your other books in the series. Is there a reason?
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PW Talks with Alan Furst
PW: You're in the unusual position of having published eight books in roughly 18 months with one house [Blood of Victory is the latest]. How has it been working with the Random House crew between hardcover and paperback?
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PW Talks with David Ball
PW: Your previous work of fiction, Empires of Sand, was a historical novel. What inspired you to write China Run, a story of Americans adopting an infant girl from China?
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PW Talks to Ben Tyler
PW: Your first novel, Tricks of the Trade, was a top seller. Now, you've written Hunk House. Are you concerned with being pigeonholed as a writer of gay fiction?
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PW Talks with Alice Sebold
PW: Your memoir focused on rape—your brutal rape when you were a student at Syracuse University in 1981. Your novel, The Lovely Bones, is about a rape and murder. Was it a relief, or a horror, to re-imagine a rape?
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PW Talks with Ethan Hawke
PW: You've said that deciding to write your first novel, The Hottest State, was one of the scariest things you've done, and now you've gone and written another. How did your experience differ with Ash Wednesday.



