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Delineating a Why: PW Talks with John Katzenbach
A professor with dementia seeks a missing girl in John Katzenbach’s What Comes Next.
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Oklahoma City, 17 Years On: A Q&A with Andrew Gumbel
In time for the attack’s 17th anniversary, Morrow releases Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed—and Why It Still Matters by investigative journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles.
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Q & A with Barry Lyga
Barry Lyga’s latest novel, I Hunt Killers, tells the story of Jazz, the son of the world's greatest serial killer. Going beyond the usual tropes of the thriller genre, Lyga explores the effect of murder on the family of the killer and on the community as a whole.
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A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: PW Talks with Phil & Kaja Foglio
Zany gaslight fantasy Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess, the second Girl Genius volume to be converted from comic to novel, follows Agatha Heterodyne and her talking cat, Krosp, as they perform with the eccentric cast of Master Payne's Circus of Adventure in an attempt to elude the predatory airship Castle Wulfenbach.
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Realism and Idealism: PW Talks with James Mann
James Mann analyzes the work of a new generation of foreign policymakers in The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power.
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Darkness in the Land of the Rising Sun: PW Talks with Richard Lloyd Parry
The strange case of the murder of a young British woman in Japan is the focus of Richard Lloyd Parry’s 'People Who Eat Darkness.'
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Fighting for Justice: PW Talks with Sergio de la Pava
Like Casi, his overworked protagonist in A Naked Singularity, Sergio de la Pava is a public defender in Manhattan. Casi defends drug addicts and immigrants, avoids his neighbors, gets talked into stealing drug money, and ponders the case of Jalen Kingg, a Skittles-lover on death row.
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One Writer, One Ranger: PW Talks with Ace Atkins
Ace Atkins follows Robert B. Parker’s Lullaby with The Lost Ones, his second novel featuring ranger-turned-lawman Quinn Colson.
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Sexual Outsiders: Three Questions with John Irving
PW caught up with John Irving to discover more about his forthcoming novel, In One Person (S&S). The book explores the nature of unfulfilled love through the voice of Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, who tells the tragicomic story of his life.
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Don't Make the Same Mistake Your Grandmother Made: A Q&A with Elizabeth Gilbert
When Elizabeth Gilbert rediscovered her great-grandmother’s 1947 cooking- entertainment guide At Home On the Range, the last thing she expected to find was a daring foodie decades ahead of her time.
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Q & A with Alyson Noel
Alyson Noel has hit her stride in both the YA and middle grade arenas. In the former, the six-book The Immortals series from St. Martin’s Griffin has more than eight million copies in print worldwide. The author’s first foray into middle grade fiction, the Riley Bloom paperback series, has more than 800,000 copies in print, and Square Fish will release the fourth installment, Whisper, on April 24. Noël further expands her reach into the YA market with Fated (St. Martin’s Griffin), the debut novel in her new series, The Soul Seekers.
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Tell Our Story: PW Talks with Linda Hirshman
In Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution, former labor lawyer and current political columnist
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Not All Angels Are Terrible: PW Talks with Vicki Pettersson
The Taken, which launches the Celestial Blues supernatural noir series, pairs an intrepid rockabilly girl reporter and a hard-boiled flawed former PI turned low-ranking angel, and pits them against a Las Vegas child prostitution ring.
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Schooled in Death: PW Talks with S.J. Bolton
British crime writer S.J. Bolton’s feisty but damaged heroine, London Det. Constable Lacey Flint, goes undercover as a Cambridge University student in Dead Scared.
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Behaving Badly: PW Talks with Sadie Jones
In her third novel, The Uninvited Guests, British author Sadie Jones uses the conventions of the Edwardian country house novel to fashion something quite new—and very funny.
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The Wisdom of Hugely Successful Books: A Q&A with James W. Hall
Prolific thriller writer James W. Hall took time out from his popular PI series for Hit Lit, a captivating look at the qualities common to 12 of the 20th century's biggest-selling novels.
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Q & A with Patricia McCormick
National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick's new book, Never Fall Down, is a haunting but hopeful YA novel about a boy who survives the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge by joining a band in prison camp. It is based on the true story of Arn Chorn Pond — who survived the Cambodian Revolution in the late 1970s and now works as an activist, musician, and speaker.
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People’s Problems Seem Quite Fixable to Me: PW Talks with Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs—you may remember him as the guy whose childhood was so bad that his best friend was a pedophile—answers queries about “shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief” and more.
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What Are Breasts For?
Environmental journalist Florence Williams profiles the most popular gland in human anatomy, and makes some stimulating discoveries, in Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History.
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Gillian Flynn Does Marriage Gone Bad
Gillian Flynn’s highly anticipated third novel, Gone Girl, out this week, is "compulsively readable and creepily unforgettable."
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