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Novel Physics: PW Talks with Alan Lightman
MIT theoretical physicist and novelist Lightman’s latest work, The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew is a collection of essays that examine the state of modern physics and cosmology, and humanity’s place in the universe.
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A Female Crook: PW Talks with Wallace Stroby
Professional thief Crissa Stone makes her third appearance in Wallace Stroby’s caper novel Shoot the Woman First.
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Doyle and Water: PW Talks with Valerie Martin
In her new novel, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste, Valerie Martin uses imagination to explore the human dimensions of a classic unsolved maritime mystery—one which intrigued Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Q & A with Kat Falls
In Kat Falls's newly released YA novel, Inhuman, first in the Fetch trilogy, 16-year-old Lane deals with the spread of a virus that causes humans to mutate into animals.
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Video: Rick Riordan on 'The House of Hades'
Rick Riordan talks about the latest Percy Jackson novel, The House of Hades, as well as what's up next for his demigod hero.
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Video: Paul Pope on 'Battling Boy'
Paul Pope's graphic novel, Battling Boy, is about the son of an ancient war god who is dispatched to protect a city from a wave of monster attacks. His weapons? T-shirts.
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A Royal Pain: PW Talks with Jane Ridley
Before he was crowned King Edward VII, Queen Victoria’s son “Bertie” was supposedly seen as a gambler and playboy. Ridley, in The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince, reveals a more complex figure after researching his life in the royal archives.
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A Long Voyage at Close Quarters: PW Talks with Charles Finch
Charles Finch’s Victorian sleuth, Charles Lenox, returns for his seventh outing in An Old Betrayal.
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What Our Minds Tell Us: PW Talks with Andrea Gillies
The White Lie is the saga of the Salter clan and Michael Salter, who vanishes from his family’s aging compound.
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It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: PW Talks with Chris Matthews
In Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked, Hardball (Simon & Schuster, Oct.) host Chris Matthews, former administrative assistant to Tip O’Neill, chronicles the Speaker of the House’s combative but productive relationship with President Reagan, pointing out the lessons it offers for today’s politicians—and voters.
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The Writer’s Version: PW Talks with Daniel Woodrell
With his latest novel The Maid’s Version (Little, Brown, Sept.), Missouri writer Daniel Woodrell digs into the rich history of the Ozarks to create a slim masterpiece of literary fiction.
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Murder Will Out: PW Talks With Mark I. Pinsky
Journalist Pinsky travels deep into the mountains of western North Carolina to investigate a 40-year-old murder mystery in Met Her On The Mountain.
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Traveling Treasure Islands: PW talks with J. Maarten Troost
In his latest travel memoir, Headhunters On My Doorstep, a newly sober Troost traces Robert Louis Stevenson’s journey through the South Pacific, encountering adventure while reflecting on the beauty and history of the islands along with the nature of addiction and recovery.
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The War Drones On: PW Talks with Lloyd C. Gardner
With Killing Machine: The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare, historian Gardner analyzes America’s obsession with fighting a perpetual high-tech, low-casualty war on terrorism.
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A Vulnerable Russian Investigator: PW Talks with Martin Cruz Smith
Martin Cruz Smith’s eighth Arkady Renko novel, Tatiana, centers on the mysterious death of a Russian journalist.
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A Lonely and Hostile Place: PW Talks with Charles Palliser
Charles Palliser’s bold Gothic thriller, Rustication, his first novel since 1999’s The Unburied, is a story of secrets set in an isolated corner of Victorian England.
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Great Expectations: PW Talks with Debora L. Spar
In Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection (Sept. 17), Barnard College president Debora L. Spar questions the idea of “having it all.”
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Taking Sides: PW Talks with Bill McKibben
In Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist (Sept. 17), award-winning journalist and educator Bill McKibben (Eaarth) recounts his experiences building a grassroots movement to fight climate change and fossil fuel dependency.
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Water World: PW Talks with Lincoln Paine
In The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, maritime historian Paine eschews a traditional land-centric approach to studying human cultures by examining how water-based trade and travel affected the rise and fall of civilizations throughout history.
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Seventh Time’s a Charm: PW Talks with Anita Shreve
In her 17th novel, Stella Bain, Anita Shreve tells the story of a woman traumatized by her experiences in World War I.
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