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Q & A with Jane O'Connor
Speaking to Bookshelf from her office at Penguin Books for Young Readers, where she is editor-at-large, Jane O’Connor discussed Fancy Nancy’s success and new incarnation as a Nancy Drew wannabe in a chapter book, Jane O’Connor’s Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth,illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser.
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The Bible Told Her So: Jeanette Winterson
It would take a powerful and imaginative writer to create a character as imposing and memorable as Mrs. Winterson, a major player in Jeanette Winterson’s memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Grove). But creating her wasn’t necessary. The memorable Mrs. Winterson was Jeanette Winterson’s adoptive mother, and a mother most of us would consider terrifying.
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Not All Velvety Smooth: PW Talks with Rob Jovanovic
In his Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground, Rob Jovanovic offers an absorbing and definitive
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Comic Absurdity and Deep Emotion: PW Talks with Tessa Dare
In A Week to Be Wicked, Tessa Dare’s second Regency-era romance set in the spinster haven of Spindle Cove, a charming, worldly rake falls for an ambitious but socially awkward bluestocking.
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Setting Dictates the Crime: PW Talks with Jassy Mackenzie
Crime spoils a holiday for Jade de Jong in The Fallen, Jassy Mackenzie’s fourth mystery featuring the South African PI.
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A Profound Struggle: PW Talks with John Donatich
John Donatich, who as director of the Yale University Press has published bestselling authors Christopher Hitchens, Steven Pinker, and Alan Dershowitz, examines how the Catholic Church, faith, and classical music relate to the modern world in his debut novel, The Variations.
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The Many Facets of Dickens: A Q&A with Jenny Hartley
In time for his 200th birthday, Jenny Hartley pored through the 12-volume British Academy Pilgrim collection of Charles Dickens’s correspondence to produce The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens.
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Chick Lit for Grownups: PW Talks with Jane Green
In her latest novel, Another Piece of My Heart, Jane Green tackles blended families and the struggles of being a stepmother.
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Translating Human Rights: PW Talks with Jeffrey Yang
Poet and editor Jeffrey Yang spoke to PW about translating Nobel Peace Prize–winner Liu Xiaobo’s groundbreaking book of poetry, June Fourth Elegies, which mourns those who died during the Tiananmen Square protests.
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Exit Strategies: PW Talks with Larry Bond
The Iranians fake a nuclear test to draw Israel and/or America into a first strike in Larry Bond’s Exit Plan.
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Love in the Time of Lycanthropy: PW Talks with Sharon Shinn
A human woman must decide whether to hide her shape-shifting lover’s secret after a mysterious beast attacks people, in acclaimed fantasist Shinn’s The Shape of Desire.
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The Oscars Are What Hollywood Pretends It Does: A Q&A with Edward Jay Epstein
In The Hollywood Economist 2.0, Epstein considers the new dynamics of movie-making, including the rise of Netflix, how Hollywood beat Wall Street, and the declining quality of Hollywood product.
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Q & A with Natalie Babbitt
Bookshelf talked with author Natalie Babbitt, whose new novel, The Moon Over High Street, is due from Scholastic’s Michael di Capua Books in March.
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Paris in Love: PW Talks with Eloisa James
Eloisa James, the pen name of novelist and Fordham University professor Mary Bly, takes readers to the City of Light in Paris in Love.
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From Kuwait to Camelot: PW Talks with Tony Hays
Tony Hays has taken a circuitous route from teacher (and intelligence operative) to author of The Stolen Bride, the fourth in his Arthurian mystery series.
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Talking to Animals: PW Talks with Marcel Beyer
The German poet and novelist Marcel Beyer considers avian preoccupations, history, and the dubious nature of memory in his new novel, Kaltenburg.
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When Gamblers and Readers Get Together, Anything Can Happen: A Q&A with Tupelo Hassman
Tupelo Hassman’s debut Girlchild is a novel that drops us into the Reno trailer park home of Rory Hendrix and invites us to be the only other member of her Girl Scout troop.
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If They Only Knew Her Secret: A Q&A with Anne Sebba
Already a bestseller in the UK, That Woman takes a fresh look at the much-vilified American-born divorcee for whom Prince Edward abdicated the throne.
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Exercising the Moral Imagination: A Q&A with Eyal Press
Beautiful Souls probes the legacy of human goodness versus a corrupt mob mentality: the whistleblower in the financial industry, the U.S. military prosecutor who resigns over conditions at Gitmo.
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Sex, Lies, and Virtual Reality: PW Talks with Michael Olson
Strange Flesh, the first novel from former software designer Michael Olson, is a thought-provoking, near-future thriller about the intersection of computer technology, online gaming, and human sexuality.
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