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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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PW Talks with Mikhail Shishkin
One of the most prominent names in modern Russian literature, Mikhail Shishkin, will have his novel Maidenhair, translated by Marian Schwartz, published by Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester in October.
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No One Had a Story Like Hers: A Q&A with Robin Gaby Fisher
Robin Gaby Fisher tells the tale of Tania Head who for four years was a fierce advocate for survivors of 9/11—until it was revealed that her own story of survival was a complete fabrication.
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Rich, Richer, and Poor: PW Talks with Timothy Noah
In The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It, Timothy Noah expands on his award-winning Slate series to explain why the wealthy command so much of the pie.
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Cookbook Obsession: PW Talks with Daniel Duane
Most of us own cookbooks we may use only occasionally; not so for Daniel Duane, who reflects on his food-soaked and recipe-drenched mania in How to Cook Like a Man: A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession.
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Murder in the Midwest: PW Talks with Brian Freeman
Two fictional Minnesota towns, one rich, one poor, clash in Brian Freeman’s novel of psychological suspense,
Spilled Blood.
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