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Love on Trial: PW Talks with Thomas H. Cook
College professor Sam Madison goes on trial for murdering his wife, Sandrine, in Thomas H. Cook’s Sandrine’s Case.
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Certain Human Mysteries: PW Talks with Robert Boswell
In Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents an intriguing and troubled cast of counselors and clients at a rehabilitation center in Southern California.
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Q & A with Andrew Richard Albanese, Author of 'The Battle of $9.99'
Andrew Richard Albanese talks about the story behind The Battle of $9.99, a new e-book about the Apple price-fixing case.
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Parents: Say No to Screens: PW Talks with Catherine Steiner-Adair
In The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age (Aug.) clinical psychologist
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Pride, with Extreme Prejudice: PW Talks with Lindsay Ashford
Was Jane Austen murdered? Lindsay Ashford’s The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen offers an answer.
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The Old Neighborhood: PW Talks with Hannah Weyer
In On the Come Up, filmmaker and debut novelist Hannah Weyer captures the fearlessness behind one girl’s struggle to seek a better life, and the beauty inherent in the journey.
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Just DeWitt: PW Talks With Sara Gran
Gran continues to reinvent the crime novel with her latest, Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, in which her inimitable protagonist follows a tangled web of cases involving the murder of Claire’s musician ex-boyfriend, the mysterious theft of a group of miniature horses, and a trip down the rabbit hole of her own psyche.
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Phishheads & Juggalos: PW Talks With Nathan Rabin
Former Onion A.V. Club editor Rabin’s memoir You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me documents his adventures with the legions of misunderstood fans who follow jam-band Phish and rap group Insane Clown Posse.
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Eccentric Nation: PW Talks with Brenda Wineapple
Brenda Wineapple’s Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877 is a sweeping work of American history, chronicling a period of immense change through the era’s monumental events and the diverse American personalities behind them.
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A Stable Center: PW Talk with Rebecca Lee
"I’m a really slow writer, glacially slow. I write every day, every morning, but sometimes it’s not even writing, it’s just sitting there staring at the story, wondering about it."
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ALA 2013: The Library of 2020 Will Be…
Wondering about the future of libraries? You don’t need a crystal ball—just pick up Joe Janes’s new book.
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ALA 2013: The Golden Age of Piracy: PW Talks with Robert Spoo
As a new copyright reform movement gains momentum, and international treaties propose to “normalize” copyright laws globally, it is amazing to see how history does repeat itself.
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Knitting a Parachute After Jumping Out of a Plane: PW Talks with Robin Blake
In Robin Blake’s second 18th-century historical, Dark Waters, coroner Titus Cragg and Dr. Luke Fidelis investigate politically motivated murders.
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Exploring from Within: PW Talks with Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light follows an intrepid little girl on what will prove to be one of the most important and heartbreaking nights of her life.
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The Art of Storytelling: PW Talks with Michael Paterniti
In his new book, The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, and Revenge and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese, Michael Paterniti’s (Driving Mr. Albert) zestful storytelling carries us along on a delightful journey through a Spanish village rich with the traditions of food and family.
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Reduce This!: PW Talks With Curtis White
White’s The Science Delusion confronts popular neuroscience and its reductionist assertion that there is nothing more to the human mind than a computer-based functionality.
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Killer Kiwi: PW Talks With Paul Cleave
New Zealander Cleave’s Cemetery Lake pits an ex-cop against a cunning killer.
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A Machiavellian Mafia Chess Master: PW Talks with Peter Lance
Former ABC News correspondent Peter Lance shares his investigative findings regarding mobster Greg Scarpa Sr. in Deal with the Devil: The FBI’s Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer.
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Death Drive: PW Talks with Judith Flanders
In The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, historian Judith Flanders examines how 19th-century Brits dealt with—and capitalized upon—rising crime levels.
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An Unlikable Lady Detective: PW Talks with Carol O’Connell
In Carol O’Connell’s It Happens in the Dark, Kathy Mallory’s 11th outing, the New York Special Crimes Unit detective investigates the murder of a Manhattan playwright.
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