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The Last Untold Story of the 1920s: PW Talks with Carla Kaplan
In Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, ethnic and gender studies scholar Carla Kaplan reveals the forgotten histories of six rule-breaking women.
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Triage, Tragedy: PW Talks with Sheri Fink
In Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, Sheri Fink, a journalist with an M.D., expanded on her Pulitzer Prize–winning coverage of the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, where one doctor and two nurses were put on trial for ostensibly hastening the deaths of patients.
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A Cockney Spy: PW Talks with John Lawton
John Lawton, best known for his Inspector Troy series (A Lily of the Field, etc.), introduces a new protagonist, Joe Wilderness, in Then We Take Berlin.
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Omega Point: PW Talks with Paul Harding
In Enon, Paul Harding returns to the same New England landscape and family that won him the Pulitzer Prize for Tinkers.
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Prodigal Prodigy: PW Talks With Peter von Ziegesar
PEN Short Fiction Award-winner von Ziegesar’s memoir, The Looking Glass Brother, considers the trials and tribulations he faced revisiting his turbulent childhood while starting his own family and caring for his homeless younger stepbrother—who also happens to be named Peter.
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Research & Destroy: PW Talks With Clifton Leaf
Leaf, former executive editor at SmartMoney and Fortune magazines, delivers The Truth in Small Doses: Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer and How to Win It. A cancer survivor himself, he shows that despite enormous funding the cancer death rate has changed little in 40 years and recommends steps to change the research system.
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Tough Love: PW Talks with Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky
In Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations, journalist Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, a Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist and Mr. K’s daughter, tell the story of Jerry Kupchynsky (Mr. K), a beloved music teacher who demanded perfection.
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Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They’re Not After You
In The United States of Paranoia, Walker, the books editor at Reason magazine, examines a litany of conspiracy theories, ranging from the Kennedy assassination to devil-worshipping cults.
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Flawed Heroes: PW Talks with James McBride
In The Good Lord Bird, James McBride portrays abolitionist John Brown as seen through the eyes of a former slave boy disguised as a girl.
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Fishing Camp Visionary: PW Talks With Clare Elliott
The prolific and oracular painter Forrest Bess (1911-1977) spent his lifetime fishing off the Texas coast while sporadically finding national artistic recognition.
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The Big Uneasy: PW Talks With Peter M. Wolf
In My New Orleans, Gone Away, Wolf, a sixth-generation member of an influential New Orleans Jewish family, shares stories of the city his family helped shape and how the city came to shape him.
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Women and Crime: PW Talks with Sarah Weinman
In Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, critic and fiction writer Sarah Weinman showcases 14 female pioneers of “domestic suspense” she thinks have been unfairly neglected.
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Endlessly Eccentric: PW Talks with Jonathan Lethem
In Dissident Gardens, Jonathan Lethem explores the peculiar and enthralling legacy of Rose Angrush, Communist grump of Sunnyside, Queens.
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Not Weird, Just Different: PW Talks with Lori Duron
In Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son, blogger Lori Duron shares her experience parenting a young son who prefers skirts and Barbies to trucks and footballs.
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'Freud’s Mistress' Casts Light on Psychiatrist's Rumored Affair
Co-authors Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman spent three years researching Freud's personal life to create authenticity in their latest novel.
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Preventing a Pardon Scandal: Q&A with Keel Hunt
Keel Hunt spent two and a half years researching the 1979 takeover which removed corrupt Tennessee Governor Roy Blanton from office, three days early. The result is Coup: The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon Scandal, an in-depth examination of the days leading up to the event.
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The Wild Child of the Wild West: PW Talks With Mark Lee Gardner
Mark Lee Gardner’s Shot All to Hell is the thrilling true story of the botched bank robbery and subsequent manhunt that contributed to the American legend of the outlaw Jesse James.
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The Planet Under Pressure: PW Talks with Alan Weisman
In Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?, journalist Alan Weisman asks essential and sobering questions about population growth.
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Devastation and Rebirth: PW Talks with Gianrico Carofiglio
In The Silence of the Wave, Gianrico Carofiglio, a former Italian senator and organized crime prosecutor, explores the toll of undercover police work.
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Take Shelter: PW Talks with Paul Yoon
Paul Yoon’s debut novel, Snow Hunters, follows Korean War veteran Yohan from a POW camp to the Brazilian port town where he becomes a tailor’s apprentice.
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