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Q & A with Gabi Swiatkowska
Illustrator Gabi Swiatkowska's first solo effort, "Queen on Wednesday," is about a girl who finds that being queen is more than she bargained for.
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Intervention, Not Incarceration: PW Talks with Nell Bernstein
In "Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison," journalist Bernstein offers a passionate call to action.
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A Massive Excuse to Read Filth All Day: PW Talks with Antonia Hodgson
Hodgson, the editor-in-chief of Little, Brown U.K., makes her fiction debut with "The Devil in the Marshalsea," a historical mystery.
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Heartache and Humor: PW Talks with Courtney Maum
Maum’s debut novel, "I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You," views monogamy and love through the eyes of an artist, Richard, in Paris.
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A Near-Future America: PW Talks with Marcus Sakey
“A Better World,” book two of Sakey’s near-future Brilliance Saga, traces the physical and psychological conflicts that arise when 1% of the world’s population possesses paranormal talents.
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Q & A with Nina LaCour
Nina LaCour's latest novel, "Everything Leads to You," about a romance between two young women, is the love story she knew she'd eventually write.
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Suspicious Suicides in Barcelona: PW Talks with Antonio Hill
In Spanish author Hill’s "The Good Suicides," Insp. Hector Salgado must discover why the employees of Almany Cosmetics are killing themselves, one by one.
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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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