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Christmas Magic: PW Talks with Victoria Alexander
In Victoria Alexander’s second Christmas-themed historical romance, What Happens at Christmas, twin sisters Camille and Beryl hire actors to play their relatives and create a picture-perfect family Christmas that might entice a foreign prince to propose to Camille.
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Sometimes a Murder Is Just a Murder: PW Talks with Frank Tallis
In Death and the Maiden, psychologist Frank Tallis explores Sigmund Freud’s Vienna.
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Episcopal Bishop Champions Gay Marriage: PW Talks with Gene Robinson
Gene Robinson, Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, catapulted from obscurity to the center of the culture wars in 2003 when he became the first openly gay bishop in the 77-million-member Anglican Communion. Hundreds of parishes left the Episcopal Church in protest. Now set to retire in January 2013, Robinson has a new book from Knopf, God Believes in Love: Straight Talk about Gay Marriage.
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Little Girls Lost: PW Talks with Michael Robotham
Michael Robotham’s damaged protagonist, psychologist Joe O’Loughlin, hunts for two kidnapped teenage girls in Say You’re Sorry.
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Lucille Clifton's Legacy: PW Talks with Kevin Young and Michael Glaser
Poets Kevin Young and Michael Glaser co-edited the 800 page Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton (1936-2010). They talked to PW about knowing the poet and the labor of love that the book represents.
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The Costumed Voice: PW Talks with Elena Passarello
In her debut essay collection Let Me Clear My Throat, actor and writer Elena Passarello considers the human voice.
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Faster Pussycat: PW Talks with Bronwen Hruska
With her debut novel, Accelerated, Soho Press publisher Bronwen Hruska dives into Manhattan’s prep school quagmire.
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Q & A with Sarah Stewart and David Small
The Quiet Place is the sixth picture book by husband-and-wife collaborators Sarah Stewart and David Small, whose 1997 The Gardener was a Caldecott Honor book. From their Michigan home, Stewart and Small talked to Bookshelf about their latest book and their many years of collaboration.
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Struggles with Temptation: PW Talks with Jacqueline Carey
Epic fantasist Carey launches a contemporary series with Dark Currents, in which half-demon Daisy Johanssen must resist her yearning for the “Seven Deadlies” while investigating a suspicious death in a small Michigan town where humans and supernatural entities live side by side.
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Cozy Fan Tudor: PW Talks with G.M. Malliet
G.M. Malliet channels Agatha Christie in her second mystery featuring Anglican priest Max Tudor, A Fatal Winter.
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Culture Clash: PW Talks with Tatjana Soli
The Forgetting Tree, Tatjana Soli’s new novel about the unlikely bond between two women living in an orange grove, is a vast departure from the award-winning The Lotus Eaters, but she still explores her central theme—what happens when cultures collide.
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Common Knowledge: PW Talks with Aman Sethi
In his first book, A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi, award-winning journalist Aman Sethi delves into the lives of homeless laborers in Bara Tooti Chowk, a labor market in Old Delhi.
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Q & A with Laura Amy Schlitz
Splendors and Glooms, the latest novel from Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz, is a gothic thriller about three children at the mercy of an unscrupulous puppeteer, who is himself under the spell of a malicious witch. It's actually two separate stories that overlap at one key point, and its complexity gave the Baltimore school librarian fits as she wrestled it into shape. But it allowed her to marry two of her passions in a single work – Dickens and marionettes.
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Getting Her Writing Legs: PW Talks with Chloe Caldwell
In her first essay collection, Legs Get Led Astray, Chloe Caldwell brings together tales of love affairs, obsessions, babysitting, and Brooklyn to create a disarming portrait of a young woman’s life.
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Sussing Out Young Adulthood: PW Talks with Robin Marantz Henig & Samantha Henig
In Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?, mother and daughter Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig compare the early adulthood plights of boomers and Millennials.
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Happy Trails: PW Talks with T.J. Forrester
Miracles, Inc. writer T.J. Forrester returns with Black Heart on the Appalachian Trail, a dark, suspenseful tale of an ex-con hiking the Appalachian Trail. Along the way, he connects with people who both enhance and dangerously complicate his journey.
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Girls with Guns: PW Talks with Shani Boianjiu
Israeli author Shani Boianjiu talks about her debut novel, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, which her editor has described as The Things They Carried meets Mean Girls.
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Q & A with James Dashner
James Dashner is having a busy summer, with two new books coming out in the next month: The Kill Order, a prequel to his popular Maze Runner trilogy, for teen readers; and A Mutiny in Time, the debut of a new multi-platform, middle-grade series called Infinity Ring.
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Caught Between Two Languages: PW Talks with Joyce Johnson
In The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson explores the impact of Kerouac’s French-Canadian heritage on his writing and reveals the hardworking man behind the myth.
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Listening to Bach Today: PW Talks with Paul Elie
In his first book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Elie wrote a group portrait of writers—Thomas Merton, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Day, Walker Percy—whose writings and lives could be connected by the motif of pilgrimage. In his new book, [attach review], he turns his attention to the ways that invention and Bach connect a group of musicians, from Albert Schweitzer to Pablo Casals to Glenn Gould.
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