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For the Dedicated Fan: A Q&A with Daniel Wallace
More than a book, Book of Sith is a collectable souvenir and a multimedia experience, with a mechanized case that automatically opens, disgorging the blood-red hardcover with flashing lights and Star Wars sound effects.
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Problems Innovate Too: A Q&A with David Owen
In The Conundrum, David Owen sounds a wake-up call for those who think they’re helping by eating local, buying more fuel-efficient cars, and fitting their house with compact fluorescents.
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Slow Ride: PW Talks with Karen Thompson Walker
In Karen Thompson Walker’s debut novel, The Age of Miracles, an 11-year-old girl wakes up one morning to the news that the earth’s rotation is slowing.
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Pernicious Thought Contagions: PW Talks with Caitlín R. Kiernan
Kiernan has established herself as an author of compelling, sometimes brutal, dark fantasy. Her latest novel, The Drowning Girl: A Memoir (Reviews, Jan. 16), about a schizophrenic young woman obsessed with a painting, is a chillingly effective mix of psychological thriller and ghost story.
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The Internet is Not a Force of Nature: A Q&A with Rebecca MacKinnon
In Consent of the Networked, researcher-advocate Rebecca MacKinnon dissects the issues surrounding civil rights, democracy, and internet institutions that aren’t always looking out for users' best interests.
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NYPD Day One: PW Talks with Lyndsay Faye
The beginnings of the New York City Police Department in 1845 are at the heart of Lyndsay Faye’s series debut, The Gods of Gotham (Reviews, Jan. 16; pub date, Mar.).
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To Vienna, for Adventure: PW Talks with William Boyd
Waiting for Sunrise (Reviews, Jan. 16; pub month, Apr.) combines suspense with an unusual romance as William Boyd again explores the effects of war on ordinary lives.
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Not Often Surprised, But Continually Amazed: A Q&A with Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian
In We’re With Nobody, readers get an insider’s perspective on the business of digging up dirt on the campaign competition, an arcane but vital political art known as Opposition Research.
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Q & A with Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson, winner of numerous awards including three Newbery Honors and the 2006 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement, talks about her latest novel, Beneath a Meth Moon.
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That's Where Coyote Comes In: PW Talks with Hari Kunzru
For his new novel, Gods Without Men (Reviews, Jan. 9; pub date, Mar. 9), Hari Kunzru goes into the Mojave Desert with Jesuits, Native Americans, Mormons, veterans, UFO enthusiasts, Iraqi immigrants working as extras in war games, a British rock star, and a New York couple traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of their autistic son.
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Poker Players and Fishermen: PW Talks with Owen Laukkanen
Owen Laukkanen, poker journalist–turned–thriller writer, makes his fiction debut with The Professionals.
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Back on a Raft with Taft: A Q&A with Jason Heller
In Jason Heller’s debut novel, Taft 2012, the journalist and author imagines a present-day campaign for William Howard Taft, whose presidential aspirations have reawakened a hundred years after the end of his one and only term.
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Revisiting Revelation: PW Talks with Elaine Pagels
Princeton University religion professor Elaine Pagels, who helped bring into the public eye the biblical also-rans—the Gnostic Gospels that didn’t make it into the Christian canon—takes a fresh look at the provocative Book of Revelation (Reviews, p. 47; pub date Mar. 6).
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A Modern-Day Almshouse: PW Talks with Victoria Sweet
With God’s Hotel, Victoria Sweet describes a unique style of patient care at Laguna Honda, the nation’s last almshouse.
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Luxembourg Noir: PW Talks with Chris Pavone
Former book editor Chris Pavone draws on his experiences
living with his family in Luxembourg for his first novel,
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Tough, Noble, and Cuddly: PW Talks with Lori Foster
Lori Foster’s A Perfect Storm extends her bestselling romantic suspense series about covert operatives and the women they love.
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So Much They Can't Share: A Q&A with Jodi Kantor
In The Obamas, journalist Kantor expands on her personal-is-political approach to look at the evolving relationships among the Obama family, the White House, and the Presidency.
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24 Million Secondary Characters: A Q&A with Adam Johnson
The Tip Sheet asked the author of The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel of North Korea what kind of impact the death of “dear leader” Kim Jong-il will have on the nation’s oppressed citizenry.
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Staring Down Mortality: PW Talks with Benjamin Busch
In Dust to Dust Benjamin Busch, son of novelist Frederick Busch, tells of his life drawn to sports, physical activity, and the military despite growing up in a literary family.
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Sweet Somethings: PW Talks with Meg Donohue
Meg Donohue writes like a baker in her sweet debut about friendship and trust between a spoiled, sophisticated young woman and her family’s cook’s free-spirited daughter, in How to Eat a Cupcake (Reviews, p. 55).
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