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Barrier Breakers: PW Talks with Robert Hofler
In Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange—How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos, entertainment journalist and Variety editor Robert Hofler looks at the period from 1968 to 1973, when a loose-knit community of artists pushed boundaries and challenged taboos.
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Going Native: PW Talks with Carl Hoffman
In Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art, veteran travel writer Carl Hoffman separates fact from fiction in the notorious case of Rockefeller’s 1961 disappearance in New Guinea.
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Not Jack the Ripper: PW Talks with Sarah Pinborough
In Sarah Pinborough’s Mayhem, another savage murderer is butchering women in London at the same time as Jack the Ripper.
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Pizza with Samuel Johnson: PW Talks with Marcel Theroux
In Strange Bodies, Marcel Theroux envisions life after death, complete with failed marriages, body and soul switcheroos, and Samuel Johnson.
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NBA Young People's Literature Medalist Cynthia Kadohata: On a Streak of 'Luck'
Luck can be found in the title of Cynthia Kadohata's latest novel, The Thing About Luck, which has just won the 2013 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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Sitting at the Grownups' Table: PW Talks with Ross Ballard II
As producer, director, sound engineer, and narrator, Ross Ballard II wears many hats for his independent audiobook publishing company. His most recent production, Screaming with the Cannibals by Lee Maynard, came out this summer, and I had the opportunity to talk with Ballard about the company and his experiences as a small publisher in the booming audiobook industry.
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Libertus and Death: PW Talks with Rosemary Rowe
In Dark Omens, Rosemary Rowe’s latest historical mystery set in Roman Britain, her pavement-maker/detective Longinus Flavius Libertus must solve a murder as the Empire reels from news of the death of Emperor Commodus.
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On Memory and Movies: PW Talks with David Thomson
English-born David Thomson is the film critic for The New Republic and the author of more than twenty books on movies.
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Dissident Dames: PW Talks with Judith Mackrell
Mackrell’s Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation profiles some of the notable women who upended traditional notions of femininity in the shadow of WWI.
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A Chef Writer: PW Talks with Andrew Friedman
Andrew Friedman, has collaborated on more than 20 cookbooks with such America’s most famous chefs as Alfred Portale and Laurent Tourondel.
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110,000 in a Million: PW Talks with James McGee
James McGee’s fourth Regency thriller starring Matthew Hawkwood, Rebellion, centers on a bold plan to topple Napoleon.
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A Question of Balance: PW Talks with Nancy Horan
Nancy Horan talks about her research and the inspiration for her new novel, Under the Wide and Starry Sky, about Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne.
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J.F.K. Lives: PW Talks with Jeff Greenfield - Mysteries & Thrillers 2013
In If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy (Putnam, Oct.), Jeff Greenfield explores what President Kennedy might have done after Dallas.
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Romantic Adventures: PW Talks with Anna Randol
We enjoy romances where the heroines are strong and independent, and the ladies of the Sinners Trio series—Madeline, Olivia, and Princess Juliana—are as spunky as they come.
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Still Swinging: PW Talks with Robert Evans
Robert Evans had a successful career in the film business producing such films as The Godfather, Love Story, Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby.
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The Inspiration Industry: PW Talks with Jessica Lamb-Shapiro
In Promise Land: My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture, Lamb-Shapiro walks the line between skepticism and belief, examining her own relationship with self-help culture.
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Creative Solutions: In the Field, on the Page - PW Talks with Brad Taylor
In Brad Taylor’s The Polaris Protocol (Reviews, Nov. 4; pub date, Jan. 14), Pike Logan and girlfriend Jennifer Cahill go up against Mexican drug cartels and terrorists determined to bring down the U.S. by
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California Dreaming: PW Talks with Mary Miller
Mary Miller chronicles a Rapture-inspired cross-country road trip from the perspective of teenage Jess in her debut novel, The Last Days of California.
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Jan Brett and Margaret Frith Mark 25 Years Together
In an era when authors often publish with multiple houses and work with more than one editor, Margaret Frith's quarter-century of editing Jan Brett's picture books is a pleasant anomaly.
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Life Turned Up a Notch: PW Talks with Jessica Hollander
The winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, Jessica Hollander’s debut collection, In These Times the Home is a Tired Place (Nov., Univ. of North Texas), is a smart, confident book bursting with tales of pregnant couples, lost souls, and finding a place in the world.



