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Q & A with Nancy Farmer
Eleven years after her National Book Award-winning The House of the Scoprion, Nancy Farmer has published a sequel, The Lord of Opium.
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Video: Samantha Shannon on 'The Bone Season' and Her Writer's Tic
Samantha Shannon's debut dystopian fantasy novel, The Bone Season, kicks off a seven-book series. We talk with her about about how she keeps it all straight and much more.
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Poison of Interest: PW Talks with Sandra Hempel
The early days of forensic science are depicted in Sandra Hempel’s The Inheritor’s Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder and the New Forensic Science.
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Splitting Personality: PW Talks with J. Michael Lennon
In Norman Mailer: A Double Life, scholar J. Michael Lennon explores the inner life of the controversial author.
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A Novel in Reverse: PW Talks with Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver tries something different in The October List, a crime thriller.
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The Long Haul: PW Talks with Lindsay Hill
Sea of Hooks, the product of 20 years of work, is Lindsay Hill’s first novel after six poetry collections.
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Paternal Noir: PW Talks With Douglas Corleone
Former NYC criminal defense attorney Douglas Corleone’s noirish new thriller, Good as Gone, introduces protagonist Simon Fisk, a former US marshal whose new line of work helps fill the void of his missing daughter.
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Stories from Regions of Rift: PW Talks With Thomas Keneally
Keneally’s latest novel The Daughters of Mars explores WWI from the perspective of Australian nurses.
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Necessary Revisionism: PW Talks With Steven Moore
In The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600 – 1800, Moore concentrates on the macro and explores the evolution of an amorphous artform using a constellation of lesser known works.
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Q & A with Lois Duncan
Duncan's Debutante Hill is the first YA classic be to reissued by Ig Publishing's new imprint, Lizzie Skurnick Books.
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Books Are Broken-Limbed Baby Dolls: PW Talks with Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara took almost two decades to finish The People in the Trees. She talks about unreliable narrators, laziness, and making stuff up.
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Video: Rob Sheffield Talks Karaoke, Love and His New Book
Rob Sheffield, author of Turn Around Bright Eyes, about all things karaoke, including the perils of doing your own rendition of Sinatra at a retirement community.
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Alan Gregory’s Goodbye: PW Talks with Stephen White
White keeps readers teetering on a high wire of suspense, closing out his rounding off his 20-novel Alan Gregory psychological thriller series after 20 books with Compound Fractures, a therapeutic exploration of murder, guilt, remorse, and retribution.
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A Landmark Day in Washington: PW Talks with Kitty Kelley
For Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington, biographer Kitty Kelley edited and arranged Tretick’s never-before-published images from August 28, 1963.
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Not Too Taboo? PW Talks with Jesse Bering
In Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, Jesse Bering tackles some of the most sensitive issues in our society—rape, pedophila, and sexual fetishism, to name just a few—through science and reason.
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Mother, Activist, Writer, Spy: PW Talks with Valerie Plame
Former CIA agent Valerie Plame makes her first venture into fiction with Blowback (Reviews, July 29; pub date, Oct. 1), the first in a spy thriller series.
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Ships in Bottles: PW Talks with Laura van den Berg
In Laura van den Berg’s The Isle of Youth, tales of teenage bank robbers and girl detectives uncover the secrets that connect us to “the larger mysteries of the self.”
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Helping Veterans after Action: How One Indie Author Is Making A Difference
Through writing, I came to understand my experiences in a way that could help other veterans -- past, present, and future -- deal with the aftermath of war. I felt what I had learned was important enough to share with others and was determined to make it available, publisher or not.
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'PW' Talks with John Mantooth about 'The Year of the Storm'
John Mantooth talks about why he believes characters are paramount to great story, how he pulled from his own life to write The Year of the Storm, and the importance of small wonders.
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The Private Life of an Assassin: PW Talks with Priscilla Johnson McMillan
Priscilla Johnson McMillan’s Marina and Lee, reissued for the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, examines Lee Harvey Oswald’s dark psyche though the eyes of his Russian wife.



