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The Dead and the Quick: PW Talks with Lauren Owen
In Owen’s debut novel, "The Quick," the vampire community in Victorian London consists of both
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Estuary Engineering: PW Talks with Ted Steinberg
Steinberg’s fascinating and encyclopedic "Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York" covers 300 years of one of the world’s most important estuaries.
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Low-Wage Feline Wranglers: PW Talks with Elaine Viets
Viets’s latest Dead-End Job mystery, "Catnapped!," explores the high-stakes world of show cats and their low-wage feline wranglers.
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Q & A with Peter Sís
In his new picture book, "The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry," Peter Sís celebrates an adventurer whose philosophical work has been compared to his own.
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The Family That Cooks Together...: PW Talks with Laurie David
In 'The Family Cooks,' author/activist Laurie David’s second cookbook, the importance of the family table and home cooking are at the heart of her philosophy for raising the next generation of healthy eaters.
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Cosmic Conundrums: PW Talks with Marcelo Gleiser
Dartmouth College physicist and astronomer Gleiser claims that while there are limits to what we can learn about the universe, every dead-end reveals new avenues of inquiry.
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Murder and Writing Lessons: PW Talks with Joel Dicker
In Swiss author Dicker’s mystery, "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair," Marcus Goldman, a young writer based in New York, travels to New Hampshire to prove that his college mentor, celebrated author Harry Quebert, didn’t murder his teenage lover, Nola Kellergan, years before.
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Possession: PW Talks with Lily King
"Euphoria," the engrossing fourth book from King, is based on a chance encounter between the anthropologists Margaret Mead, Ron Fortune, and Gregory Bateson in 1930s Papua New Guinea.
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A Rogue’s Tale: PW Talks with Scott Phillips
Set in 1878, Phillips’s excellent new novel, "Hop Alley" (Counterpoint), continues the adventures of Bill Ogden, frontier photographer and libertine.
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Q & A with Byron Barton
Thirteen years after "My Car," award-winning author-illustrator Byron Barton is back with a companion picture book, "My Bus."
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Word Influenza: PW Talks with Alena Graedon
Graedon’s ambitious debut novel, "The Word Exchange," explores a near-future America that’s shifted almost exclusively to smart technologies.
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Brave—and Anxious—New World: PW Talks with Evan Osnos
In his first book, "Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China," New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos explores China’s astounding social transformation, and its discontents.
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The Third Culture: PW Talks with Arthur I. Miller
Miller, professor emeritus of history and philosophy of science at University College London, studies the blurring boundaries between science and art in "Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art."
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Dad vs. Mum: PW Talks with Tom Rob Smith
In British author Smith’s "The Farm," a son is torn between his parents’ very different
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Leaving What You Love: PW Talks with Kathryn Ma
Ma’s new novel, "The Year She Left Us," is about an international adoption. The book takes a hard look at the ways we create family.
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Atmospheric Disturbances: PW Talks with Kseniya Melnik
Melnik’s debut, "Snow in May," is a collection of nine stories spanning the second half of the 20th century, centered on the small Siberian town of Magadan, Russia, where the author grew up, and the people connected to it.
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Seeing the World through Language: PW Talks with John H. McWhorter
In his new book, "The Language Hoax," McWhorter investigates, deconstructs, and challenges popular theories and assumptions about how language shapes thoughts and worldviews.
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Q & A with Ann Brashares
Though Ann Brashares’s newest novel, "The Here and Now," traverses the borders of sci-fi and dystopia, her story maintains the realistic feel of contemporary YA.
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Q & A with Andy Griffiths
In "The 26-Story Treehouse," the sequel to "The 13-Story Treehouse," authors Andy Griffith and Terry Denton have added a baker's dozen of floors onto their imaginary domicile.
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PW Talks with David Downing: Mysteries 2014
Downing, author of the Station series, a WWII-era spy series that concluded with 2013’s "Masaryk Station," launches a new WWI-era spy series with "Jack of Spies" (Soho Crime, May).
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