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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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Take That, Sigmund!: PW Talks with Lidia Yuknavitch
With her debut novel, Dora: A Headcase, Lidia Yuknavitch takes on Freud, transporting his famous case
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When Not Choosing Is a Choice: PW Talks with Michael Kardos
Former drummer Michael Kardos’s debut novel, The Three-Day Affair, centers on a spur-of-the-moment kidnapping.
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Q & A with Phillip Hoose
Phillip Hoose's latest work of nonfiction, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, follows a red knot shorebird on his annual 18,600-mile roundtrip migration between Tierra del Fuego and the Canadian Arctic.
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Occupied: PW Talks with Janet Byrne
The Occupy Handbook features a dream team of 67 essayists--including Nobel Prize-winning economists Paul Diamond and Paul Krugman; authors Barbara Ehrenreich, Daniel Gross, Matt Taibbi, and Rebecca Solnit--weighing in on the Occupy movement in layman's prose.
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Wall Street Wrongdoing: PW Talks with Michael Sears
A foreign currency trader, freshly out of jail, investigates potential financial misdeeds—along with a suspicious death—in Michael Sears’s first novel, Black Fridays.
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The Triumph of Good: PW Talks with Dean Koontz
Known for his bestselling suspense thrillers, Dean Koontz has incorporated elements of science fiction, horror, and fantasy into his books, along with spiritual grounding. When Koontz writes about the battle between good and evil, he speaks from experience. He endured a frightening childhood with a violent alcoholic father, but found happiness and stability in his long-term marriage. He also converted to Catholicism, and though he later went through a period of questioning that faith, he has returned to it.
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Reclaiming the Vagina: PW Talks with Naomi Wolf
Inspired by her own experience with an injured pelvic nerve, noted feminist author Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth) explores the science of female sexuality in her intimate and provocative latest, Vagina: A New Biography.
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More Baths Less Talking: PW Talks with Nick Hornby
In More Baths, Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family and Time Itself, Nick Hornby shares his “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” columns.
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Q & A with Kate and M. Sarah Klise
Sisters Kate and M. Sarah Klise, who have collaborated on 18 books, talk about their most recent picture book and why their sister act is still going strong.
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Recipes from Veggiestan: PW Talks with Sally Butcher
In her book, The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian, Sally Butcher, owner of a Middle Eastern food store in London, Persepolis, shares recipes she’s gathered along her travels.
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The Foundation of Environmentalism: PW Talks with William Souder
William Souder’s new biography, On A Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, offers a nuanced study of the environmentalist on the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring.
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Achilles' Arrow: PW Talks with T. Geronimo Johnson
In Hold It ’Til It Hurts, the debut novel from New Orleans native T. Geronimo Johnson, a 22-year-old black man named Achilles Conroy tries to make sense of his life after serving two rugged tours in Afghanistan.
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The Dog Who Did Something in the Nighttime: PW Talks with Spencer Quinn
Under his Spencer Quinn pseudonym, thriller author Peter Abrahams has written his fifth whodunit featuring Chet the dog and PI Bernie Little, A Fistful of Collars.
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