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The Earned Fact: PW Talks with Katherine Boo

By Robert Avila | 12/09/2011 @ 07:00PM

In her first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Reviews, Oct. 17), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Katherine Boo explores the lives of several disparate personalities in a poor—yet far from hopeless—squatter settlement.
From Turbulent 60s to Turbulent Teens: A Q&A with Ed Sanders

by Marc Schultz | 12/09/2011 @ 12:00AM

Ed Sanders, 72, is a storied icon of the 1960s counterculture, an author-poet-scholar-activist-musician-bookseller-underground publisher with a new memoir of the 60s called Fug You.
Q & A with Katherine Applegate

By Sally Lodge | 12/08/2011 @ 03:00PM

In her bestselling Animorphs series, Katherine Applegate introduced teens with the ability to morph into any animal they touch. She offers a very different take on an animal story in The One and Only Ivan, (Harper).
Love, Fighting, Death, Longing: PW Talks with Madeline Miller

By Judi Goldenberg | 12/02/2011 @ 07:00PM

Fresh off her Orange Prize win for The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller talks about her personal connection to Greek mythology.
Scout’s Honor: PW Talks with Stacy A. Cordery

By Jordan Foster | 12/02/2011 @ 07:00PM

In Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts, Stacy A. Cordery delves into Low’s fascinating and untraditional life.
Not Exactly Everyday Engineering: A Q&A with Brian Clegg

By Gabe Habash | 12/02/2011 @ 12:00AM

We asked Clegg about his new book How to Build a Time Machine, some of his favorite time travel stories, and the most important scientific discovery of his lifetime.
Birth of a Genre: PW Talks with Michael Sims

By Lenny Picker | 11/25/2011 @ 07:00PM

Michael Sims surveys the development of the mystery tale in The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Detective Stories.
American Horror Stories: PW Talks with Dan Chaon

By Dan Meyer | 11/25/2011 @ 07:00PM

Haunting and intense, Stay Awake, Dan Chaon’s latest collection of short stories, peels back the layers of ordinary lives marked by accidents and isolation, dark pasts, and uncertain futures.
Gifted Men: PW Talks with Neal Baer and Jonathan Greene

By Lenny Picker | 11/18/2011 @ 07:00PM

Law & Order: SVU executive producers Neal Baer and Jonathan Greene, now the co-producers of CBS’s medical drama, A Gifted Man, make their fiction debut with Kill Switch.
Secret Society: PW Talks with Stef Penney

By Ruby Cutolo | 11/18/2011 @ 07:00PM

Stef Penney’s second novel, The Invisible Ones, sets the mystery of a missing girl in the always mysterious world of “the Travellers,” the English Romany gypsies.
And Then There Were Notebooks: A Q&A with John Curran

By Gabe Habash | 11/18/2011 @ 12:00AM

Agatha Christie archivist (and lifelong fan) John Curran releases Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Agatha Christie’s Notebooks, his second volume of posthumous discoveries from Christie’s unpublished notes. Emailing from Dublin, Curran previews some of those discoveries for Tip Sheet.
Q & A with Colleen Houck

By Sally Lodge | 11/17/2011 @ 03:00PM

It's been a year of firsts for Colleen Houck: her first novel, Tiger's Curse, the first installment of a five-book series, was the first release from Splinter, Sterling's YA imprint.
The Monday Interview: Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine

By Dick Donahue | 11/14/2011 @ 12:00AM

A conversation with Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine, whose memoir, Double Life: A Love Story from Broadway to Hollywood, was just published by Magnus Books.
Turn Loss into Light: PW Talks with Lewis Richmond

By Jean E. Barker | 11/11/2011 @ 07:00PM

Lewis Richmond—Zen Buddhist priest, meditation teacher, columnist for the Huffington Post, musician—addresses the challenges facing a generation of baby boomers as life catches up with them in Aging as a Spiritual Practice: A Contemplative Guide to Growing Older and Wiser.
Boys in Love: PW Talks with J.H. Trumble

By Cat Rambo | 11/11/2011 @ 07:00PM

In Don’t Let Me Go, debut author Trumble describes a tumultuous romance between Texas teens Nate and Adam, who stand strong in the face of homophobia and violence, but falter when faced with distance and the temptation of infidelity.
God to Us: 'Drop Dead': PW Talks with Shalom Auslander

By Martha Schulman | 11/11/2011 @ 07:00PM

Hope: A Tragedy, Shalom Auslander’s new novel, is very funny despite his hapless hero, Solomon Kugel, having to deal with a mother who insists she’s a Holocaust survivor, the local arsonist, and an unwanted guest in the attic.
Q&A: Why Kevin Wilson Loves Nicole Kidman

By Marc Schultz | 11/11/2011 @ 12:00AM

Just two months after the release of Kevin Wilson's debut novel, the production company of Nicole Kidman and Per Saari had acquired the screen rights--with Kidman herself expected to fill the role of clan matriarch Camille Fang. PW caught up with Wilson for a phone interview about movie adaptations, Nicole Kidman’s strangest roles, and why happy endings make no sense.
Q&A: Deborah Davis, Keeper of Oprah's Flame

By Marc Schultz | 11/11/2011 @ 12:00AM

Abrams celebrates the legacy of America’s most beloved talk-show host with this week’s release of The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy. Nonfiction author Deborah Davis, whose friends describe her beat as “the rich and the dead,” was tapped to write Abrams's 25-year retrospective. The Tip Sheet spoke to her over the phone this week about condensing 25 years of television history into a six-month whirlwind of viewing, researching, and writing.
On a Mission: PW Talks with Corban Addison

By Hilary S. Kayle | 11/04/2011 @ 07:00PM

For his debut novel, A Walk Across the Sun, attorney Corban Addison went undercover in brothels to illuminate the plight of the international sex slave trade.
Beautiful Girls: PW Talks with Sonia Faleiro

By Kat Laskowski | 10/28/2011 @ 07:00PM

Journalist Faleiro delves into Bombay’s underworld to reveal the secretive world of bar dancers in Beautiful Thing.

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