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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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The Sublime Roach: PW Talks with Mary Roach
In Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Mary Roach blurs the line between the repugnant and the mesmerizing.
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War with the Neuts: PW Talks with Deb Taber
In Deb Taber’s Necessary Ill, sexless neuters form secret enclaves of scientists and artists. Neuters called spreaders engineer and spread plagues intended to prevent a human overpopulation disaster—until one goes too far.
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Evita’s Afterlife: PW Talks with Gregory Widen
In screenwriter Gregory Widen’s first novel, Blood Makes Noise, a junior CIA officer and an Argentinian revolutionary each has his reasons for seeking to protect the corpse of Evita Perón.
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Q & A with Michael B. Kaplan
Michael B. Kaplan's heroine returns this month in Betty Bunny Didn't Do It (illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch), which has the crafty rabbit blaming the Tooth Fairy for a broken lamp.
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Mystery Captures the Zeitgeist: PW Talks with C.S. Harris
C.S. Harris returns to Regency England with her eighth historical whodunit, What Darkness Brings.
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The Death and Life of Great French Cities: PW Talks with Stephane Kirkland
In Paris Reborn: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann and the Quest to Build a Modern City, urban planning and architecture blogger Stephane Kirkland describes the Second Empire transformation of the City of Light from a medieval maze to a modern metropolis.
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Write Them All and Let Editors Sort It Out: PW Talks with Kit Reed
The novel Son of Destruction, in which a man seeking his father ends up investigating spontaneous human combustion, and the collection The Story Until Now showcase Reed’s skill and literary breadth.
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Men at Work: PW Talks with D.A. Mishani
Israeli scholar D.A. Mishani’s first novel, The Missing File, launches a series featuring an Israeli detective, Avraham Avraham.
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A Different Kind of Intimacy: PW Talks with James Salter
James Salter returns to long-form fiction with All That Is, his first novel since the late 1970s.
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Q & A with Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell's YA debut, Eleanor & Park, a love story set in Omaha about two outsiders, hits stores soon. She spoke with PW about realistic romance, the power of music, and not being precious about writing.
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