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Anthony Marra on Writing the Only Novel on the Chechen Wars
The author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena talks about the inspiration for his novel.
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An Unseemly Emotion: PW Talks with Claire Messud
With The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud boldly goes into territory more commonly embraced by her male counterparts.
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The Other Belgian Detective: PW Talks with Pieter Aspe
Belgian Insp. Pieter Van In makes his U.S. debut in Pieter Aspe’s The Square of Revenge. The series has already spawned bestsellers in Europe.
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Dark Origins: PW Talks with Elizabeth Kelly
In her devilishly witty, pulse-quickening second novel, The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, Elizabeth Kelly shadows the upper-crust Camperdown clan over the course of a summer in 1972 as they cope with a heinous crime committed too close to home.
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For Revenge’s Sake: PW Talks With Thane Rosenbaum
Rosenbaum, novelist and director of Fordham University’s Forum on Law, thinks there’s an epidemic underway, and in Payback: The Case for Revenge he argues that the legal system fails to fulfill a duty to citizens as avenger of wrongs, and that fictional revenge narratives feed a natural, healthy desire for revenge.
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Capitol Caper: PW Talks With Jason Stein and Patrick Marley
More Than They Bargained For, from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters Stein and Marley, is an in-depth account of the controversy surrounding Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s first year in office.
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Billion Dollar Antlers: PW Talks With Al Cambronne
In Deerland, Cambronne, a writer and photographer from northwestern Wisconsin, examines the ecological impact of America’s multibillion-dollar deer hunting industry.
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Hell in a Very Cold Place: PW Talks with Mitchell Zuckoff
In Frozen in Time, Mitchell Zuckoff recounts the ordeal of a B-17 bomber crew stranded on the Greenland ice cap in 1942.
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Out Loud and Proud: PW Talks with Dan Savage
In American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics, outspoken sex columnist and gay-rights activist Dan Savage (The Kid) tells the world what’s wrong with it.
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Telling the Victims’ Stories: PW Talks with Robert Kolker
Reporter Robert Kolker examines the troubled lives and lurid ends of a quintet of call girls—possibly the victims of a serial killer (or killers)—in Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.
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The Ghost of History: PW Talks with Lauren Beukes
The survivor of a savage attack stalks a time-traveling serial killer in South African writer Lauren Beukes’s The Shining Girls.
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The Uncertainty Principle: PW Talks with Gabriel Roth
In Gabriel Roth’s elegant and keenly perceptive debut, The Unknowns, a nerdy software developer faces a steep learning curve when navigating his first real romantic relationship.
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Caroline Kennedy, Poetry Advocate
With her fourth anthology, Poems to Learn by Heart, editor Caroline Kennedy continues to champion the literary form.
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Q & A with Brent Hartinger
Having just self-published The Elephant of Surprise, the fourth book in his Russel Middlebrook series, Brent Hartinger is at the forefront of trends in self-publishing and gayYA fiction.
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We Will Rock You: PW Talks with Mike Parker Pearson
In Stonehenge: A New Understanding, Mike Parker Pearson, the leader of a groundbreaking archaeological study of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, proposes an exciting new theory of the wonder of the ancient world and its lesser-known neighboring Neolithic sites.
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Murder in Space: PW Talks with Adam Roberts
In the BSFA Award–winning Jack Glass, British author Roberts turns the science fiction whodunit inside out and upside down.
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Old Boys in a Young Man’s Game: PW Talks with Charles McCarry
In retired CIA officer Charles McCarry’s stand-alone thriller The Shanghai Factor, an American sleeper agent posted to Shanghai falls for a beautiful young Chinese woman who may be a spy for China’s government.
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Spies Like Us: PW Talks with Elliott Holt
Ex-expat Elliott Holt’s sly debut novel, You Are One of Them, follows Sarah Zuckerman, who travels to Moscow in 1995 to unravel a mystery from the Cold War years involving her childhood best friend.
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The Art of Science Writing: PW Talks with Thomas Hayden and Michelle Nijhuis: Focus on Reference 2012
Chronicling advances and research in the science world presents new challenges these days.
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Pleasure Politics: PW Talks With the Authors of 'The Feminist Porn Book'
The Feminist Porn Book collects essays that explore a grassroots movement that challenging traditional perspectives on pornography and feminism.



