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A Goofy Taste for Vigilantism: PW Talks with Sophie Littlefield
Feisty Stella Hardesty must rid herself of a blackmailer in Sophie Littlefield's third crime novel, A Bad Day for Scandal.
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A Narrative Symphony of the Civil War: PW Talks with Amanda Foreman
In A World on Fire, bestselling biographer Amanda Foreman traces turbulent Anglo-American relations during the Civil War.
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Jennifer Grant Remembers Her Father, Cary, in Forthcoming Memoir
Jennifer Grant, daughter of screen legend Cary and author of Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant (Knopf) hosted a pre-pub luncheon earlier this month for Southern California booksellers at the Ivy at the Shore in Santa Monica
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An Unapologetic Embrace of Sentiment: PW Talks with James S.A. Corey
Authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who share the pseudonym of James S.A. Corey, discuss their first collaboration: Leviathan Wakes (Reviews, Mar. 14), the launch of a sprawling noir-influenced space opera series The Expanse.
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Why I Write: Harry Turtledove
Why do I write? The most basic answer, I suppose, is that I can't not do it. I've been telling stories on paper, first to myself and then to other people, for as long as I've been literate.
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Blood, Bones, and Profit: PW Talks with Scott Carney
Carney explores the enormous trade in human body parts—organs, wombs, bones, even human hair—in The Red Market.
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Q & A with Malinda Lo
Malinda Lo is the author of Ash and the just-released Huntress, both from Little, Brown. Lo will be crossing the country with Cindy Pon, author of Fury of the Phoenix, to celebrate the publication of their new novels.
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The Monday Interview with Martin Kihn
An interview with Martin Kihn, whose Bad Dog: A Love Story will be published April 5 by Pantheon.
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Victorian Time Travel: PW Talks with Felix J. Palma
People can travel through time in Félix J. Palma's The Map of Time, the first in a trilogy inspired by H.G. Wells's The Time Machine.
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Finding the Amazon in Tennessee: PW Talks with Ann Patchett
In State of Wonder, Ann Patchett charts the changes in a doctor's life when she is sent to investigate the death of a research colleague among a remote Amazon tribe whose women unexplainably remain fertile well into old age. Also, they may have the cure for malaria.
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Not Denzel in a Torn Coat: PW Talks with Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks, standup comedian, moviemaker, Academy Award–nominated actor (for Broadcast News), and, now, novelist, debuts with 2030, an ambitious take about the near future.
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Why I Write: Kathleen Ossip
Because I want to. This is no small statement. On planet Earth in 2011 C.E., having leisure time and emotional and physical ease to do what I want, without regard for market potential, is an enormous privilege, and I'm enormously grateful for it. On most days at the desk, this desire to write is all I'm consciously aware of. Call it an impulse, then.
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Too Much Information? PW Talks with James Gleick
In The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, renowned science writer James Gleick neatly captures our new reality. "We know about streaming information, parsing it, sorting it, matching it, and filtering it. Our furniture includes iPods and plasma screens, our skills include texting and Googling, we are endowed, we are expert, so we see information in the foreground," he writes. "But it has always been there."
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Safe House: PW Talks with Jana Leo
In the startlingly intimate Rape New York, out now, Jana Leo discusses her "nonviolent rape" of 2001 and the subsequent years she spent seeking justice.
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Children and More Children: PW Talks with Melissa Fay Greene
In No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (Reviews Feb. 28), Melissa Fay Greene talks about expanding her family through adoption.
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Still Kicking: PW Talks with Steve Earle
Steve Earle says he was once a proud holder of a cough syrup prescription written by Elvis's physician, Dr. Nick. In his debut novel, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (reviewed on p. 51), he explores the life of Doc Ebersole, morphine addict and doctor to Hank Williams.
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Q & A with Cheryl B. Klein
Senior editor of Scholastic's Arthur A. Levine Books imprint, Cheryl B. Klein steps into another publishing role this week with the release of Second Sight: An Editor’s Talks on Writing, Revising, and Publishing Books for Children and Young Adults.
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Freedom of Choice: PW Talks with Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland
In Vaccine Epidemic: The Ethics, Law and Science in Support of Vaccination Choice, editors Habakus and Holland advocate for an end to government-mandated vaccination.
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Crusader for Islam: PW Talks with Deborah Baker
In The Convert (Reviews, Feb. 21), Deborah Baker unravels the life of Margaret Marcus, an American woman who, as Maryam Jameelah, became one of the pre-eminent voices of Islamic revivalism in the early 1960s.
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A Visitor to the World of the Past: PW Talks with Stephanie Pintoff
Edgar-winner Stefanie Pintoff delivers her third mystery set in early 20th-century New York City, Secret of the White Rose (Reviews, Mar. 7).
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