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Why’d He Do It?: PW Talks with Kate Summerscale
In 'The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer' (Penguin Press), Kate Summerscale explores the complexity of a now-obscure Victorian cause célèbre.
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From Dealer to Detective: PW Talks with Corey Pegues
Retired NYPD Deputy Inspector Pegues, a former drug dealer, writes about his experience in "Once a Cop".
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Alternate Worlds, Alternate Selves: PW Talks with Blake Crouch
Crouch's new SF Thriller delves into a world where quantum physics has made interdimensional transfer possible.
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The Truth about Patriots and Traitors: PW Talks to Nathaniel Philbrick
In Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, And The Fate Of The American Revolution, National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick explores the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold.
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Alain de Botton Relfects Upon the Course of Love
In his second novel, the philosopher Alain de Botton reflects upon the nature of love and the course of romantic love under the pressures of a couple's average existence.
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American Slave Hunter: PW Talks with Ben Winter
In Winters’s 'Underground Airlines,' a black bounty hunter pursues runaway slaves in an alternate contemporary America where slavery remains legal in four states.
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Q & A with Andrea Portes
Andrea Portes is the author of adult and YA novels, most recently, 'The Fall of Butterflies.'
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Four Questions for...Harriet Tubman Biographer, Catherine Clinton
Last week, it was announced that Harriet Tubman will grace U.S. $20 bills in the future. Her biographer, Catherine Clinton, talks to PW about Tubman's life and times, and why she deserves to be commemorated on the $20 bill.
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Q & A with Firoozeh Dumas
Humorist Firouzeh Dumas, author of two bestselling memoirs about growing up as an Iranian immigrant in America, now mines her childhood in her debut middle-grade novel, 'It Ain't So Awful, Falafel.'
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Resisting Simplification: PW Talks with Guy Gavriel Kay
In "Children of Earth and Sky," Kay takes readers back to a vivid alternate historical fantasy world during its Renaissance, with a large, international cast of characters caught up in plots in which intrigue rules the day.
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Everyone Was a Survivor: PW Talks with Terry Roberts
Roberts sets "That Bright Land" against the tense backdrop of the post–Civil War South.
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Q & A with N.D. Wilson
This week, N.D. Wilson launches a new series, Outlaws of Time, a middle grade time-travel adventure set in the American West.
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Q & A with Frances Hardinge
Earlier this year when Frances Hardinge learned that her novel, 'The Lie Tree,' had won the Costa Award for the best children's book published in the U.K. in 2015, she was overjoyed.
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Charming Enigma: PW Talks with Joanna Ebenstein
Ebenstein, cofounder of Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy Museum, explores the allure of a female wax figure created in 18th-century Florence in 'The Anatomical Venus.'
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A New Take on the Old West: PW Talks with J. Todd Scott
DEA agent Scott's first novel, 'The Far Empty,' blends the classic western with a modern noir sensibility.
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After 140 Books, Susan Mallery Has No Regrets
The prolific novelist on why she has the world's best job, and why Tom Clancy couldn't do what she does.
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Q & A with Deborah Hopkinson
Deborah Hopkinson's third novel, 'A Bandit's Tale,' is a picaresque novel narrated by Rocco Zacarro, an Italian boy sold into slavery in 19th-century New York City.
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Four Questions for...Marcia Clark
Thanks to the just-wrapped FX miniseries 'American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson,' Marcia Clark has been reliving the "trial of the century." She talked to us about seeing herself portrayed on TV and her new novel publishing next month.
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Q & A with Monica Hesse
'Girl in the Blue Coat,' Monica Hesse's debut novel, is the story of a teenager in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam who keeps her parents and herself fed by selling black market goods.
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Ambiguous Wisdom: PW Talks with Krista Tippett
In 'Becoming Wise,' Krista Tippett, host of the nationally syndicated radio program and podcast 'On Being,' traces her path toward wisdom through her years of interviews with a diverse array of spiritual seekers.
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