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Evoking the Old World: PW Talks with Helene Wecker
Helene Wecker’s debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni, brings together two mythical beings from very different cultures—a golem from a Polish shtetl and a jinni from ancient Syria—in teeming turn-of-the-century New York.
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Unsung Hero: PW Talks with Susan Zuccotti
In Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish Rescue: How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands During the Holocaust, historian Susan Zuccotti rescues a heroic figure from obscurity.
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Better, Stronger, Faster: PW Talks with Shiloh Walker
The heroine of Shiloh Walker’s Wrecked uses the real-world book Wreck This Journal to tear her life down and rebuild it, with unexpected romantic help from a friend who’s harbored a secret crush on her for years.
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Have Gunther, Will Unravel: PW Talks with Philip Kerr
In the ninth Bernie Gunther novel, A Man Without Breath, the Berlin cop, now attached to the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, investigates the Katyn Forest massacre—the 1940 slaughter of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviets, discovered by the Nazis near Smolensk in 1943.
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The Making of a Heroine: PW Talks with Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson talks about her latest book, Life After Life, in which Ursula Todd lives through the 20th century—including the Second World War—multiple times.
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A Fluent Understanding: PW Talks With Annapurna Potluri
Annapurna Potluri’s debut novel, The Grammarian, set in early 20th century India, follows French linguist, Alexandre Lautens, as he travels to the country’s English-dominated south to complete a first-of-its-kind grammar of Telugu, known as the “Italian of the East.”
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Sawdust in the Veins: PW Talks with Duncan Wall
In his memoir, The Ordinary Acrobat, Duncan Wall shares how he fell in with the “new circus,” exploring its beginnings and leading a romantic tour of Parisian circus life both past and present.
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Q & A with Lauren DeStefano
Lauren DeStefano's Chemical Garden trilogy of dystopian novels for YA readers paints a harrowing portrait of the unintended and tragic consequences of modern society’s relentless pursuit of perfection.
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Along the Spectrum: PW Talks with Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin's latest book, The Autistic Brain, delves into the research that’s beginning to untangle the complex neurology of Autism Spectrum Disorder, brain by brain.
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Full Throttle: PW Talks to George Rowe
After years of drug dealing, mayhem, and violence, George Rowe decided it was time to turn his life around.
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Three Questions for Philip Caputo: Travel Books 2013
In July, Holt will publish the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s latest work of nonfiction, The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean, which documents his four-month journey, via Airstream trailer, from the tip of the Florida Keys to the northernmost point in Alaska.
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The Agent: PW Talks with Sterling Lord
Is he the most interesting man in the publishing world?
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All Quiet on the Western Front: PW Talks with Rick Atkinson
Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner Rick Atkinson wraps up his WWII Liberation Trilogy with The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945. He humbly called it “yet another history” of the war, but it’s hard to imagine a better one.
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Still Waters Run Deep: PW Talks with Ronald Malfi
In Cradle Lake, Ronald Malfi describes a suburban paradise where a lake with healing powers also hides dark secrets.
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The Candlemoth Stands Alone: PW Talks with R.J. Ellory
In British author R.J. Ellory’s Candlemoth, a man convicted of killing his best friend reflects on their long relationship.
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Train Dreams: PW Talks with Christina Baker Kline
The lives of two orphans run parallel in The Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline’s debut novel.
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Bringing up Baby: PW Talks with Jennifer Gilmore
Jesse, the narrator of Jennifer Gilmore’s third novel, The Mothers, desperately wants a child.
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Q & A with Shaun Tan
Australian author Shaun Tan's newest title, The Bird King: An Artist's Notebook, is a sketchbook-sized volume of rough work and inspiration for his award-winning books and films.
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Video: Wimpy Kid Author Jeff Kinney Talks About 'The Third Wheel'
Number-one bestselling author Jeff Kinney talks to Publishers Weekly about The Third Wheel (book 7 in the Wimpy Kid series), the horror of being on-camera, and why he sometimes hides under blankets.
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Poets Can Learn from Theologians: PW Talks with Christian Wiman
In the decidedly secular literary world, poet Christian Wiman, who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2005, stands out as one who’s willing to talk about God.
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