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PW talks with Barbara Ehrenreich
"We have lost the techniques and the spirit of collective joy—everyone's in a prison of self and the mindset is, if you have a problem you can fix it if you just change your own mind."
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PW talks with Sanjay Gupta
"Someone thinks a person has died. In reality, it's just the beginning of a sequence of events that we have more control of than ever before."
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Q & A with Loren Long
Q: Your new picture book, Otis, has a classic, playful feel. What inspired the look of this art?
A: Well, to back up a bit, The Little Engine That Could marked a new direction for me, from the standpoint that this was the first book where I was obviously digging into a tried and true classic. I’m very proud of the books I did beforehand, but The Little Engine That Could opened up a new world for me. -
Cooking the Books with Ruth Reichl
Five years ago, Houghton Mifflin published The Gourmet Cookbook, a 1,000-plus-page compendium of some of the best recipes—think Lobster Thermidore—from the magazine’s archives updated for 2004. In a nod to changing American tastes and culinary consciousness, the house will release Gourmet Today next month. Gourmet editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl, who edited the book, talks about the massive changes she’s noticed in American home kitchens in the past five years.
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PW talks with Rachel Zucker
Zucker talks to PW about what happens when her family reads her books, and the difference between truth and imagination.
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PW talks with Richard Belzer
"Just being around all these stories from cops while playing Munch, and being a fan of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, the idea of a mystery-comedy hybrid seemed right up my alley."
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PW talks with Donald Spoto
"The years have not been kind to Grace [Kelly]. I think we live in mean-spirited times, and there's a tendency among some writers to fabricate reasons to destroy reputations."
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Q & A with Jane Smiley
Q: You obviously love horses. Is this the kind of book that you would have liked to have read as a child?
A: Well, it's more or less the kind of book I did read. When I was a child in 1960 - I was 10 and 11 that year - there were plenty of horse book series. I loved them all and read them all. I read the Black Stallion series, and other Walter Farley books. I also read Nancy Drew and other series. That was what kids' literature was back then. -
A Potent Vintage: PW talks with Laura Anne Gilman
"Winemakers... [are] artisans and alchemists, and transforming winemakers into magicians really flowed quite smoothly."
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Into the Fire: PW talks with Timothy Egan
"Imagine if President Obama and his top aides went skinny dipping in the Potomac or stripped to their shorts and boxed at night?"
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Q & A with Gennifer Choldenko
Q: When you finished writing Al Capone Does My Shirts, did you think Moose’s story wasn’t finished? How did this second book come about?
A: Actually, while I was working on the first book, there was so much material and I tried to shove it all in the first book. But honestly, it was so challenging to write the first book. So when I finished the first one, I did not want to do a second one. I knew there was a lot more to Moose’s story, but I needed time away from it. -
The Legendary Stan Lee Talks Manga and Ultimo
The legendary Stan Lee was on hand at Comic-con this year to promote Ultimo, a new manga series he is working on for Viz Media in collaboration with the noted manga-ka Hiroyuki Takei, creator of the bestselling manga series Shaman King. Originally conceived for the Japanese market, Ultimo the story of two mysterious and powerful mechanized figures—one good; the other evil—created by a mysterious scientist/shaman figure that looks suspiciously like Stan Lee himself.
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Cooking the Books with Frank Bruni
Now that Frank Bruni has officially resigned from his post as New York Times restaurant critic, his photo is out there for all the city’s restaurant staffers to ogle. Bruni also airs his life story in Born Round, and talks to PW about his lifelong struggles with food and weight.
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House of David
Pantheon editorial director Dan Frank and Pantheon designer/senior editor Chip Kidd discuss David Mazzucchelli's much anticipated graphic novel, Asterios Polyp (Reviews, Feb. 9), the story of an architect who designs highly theoretical buildings that are never constructed. Mazzucchelli worked on this book for about 10 years.
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Twisting Real Life a Bit: PW talks with Stuart MacBride
"With police officers, the more grisly the scene, the more likely they are to be cracking jokes... And given the kind of horrors I inflict on them, the humor tends to be very dark indeed."
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Ah, for the Love of Food: PW talks with Frank Bruni
In his new memoir, former New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni discusses his relationship to food and his battles with weight throughout his life.
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Author Interview: PW profiles David Leite
David Leite tours Newark in an interview about his new cookbook
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'Ranger’s Apprentice' Hits the Road
Having toured the U.S. last year, Australian author John Flanagan isn’t coming stateside for the release of The Siege of Macindaw (Philomel, Sept.), the sixth book in his Ranger’s Apprentice series. Soon readers in 27 U.S. cities will be able to see a theatrical performance entitled “Escape to Araluen,” based on the first Ranger’s Apprentice book, The Ruins of Gorlan, thanks to a national bus tour Penguin has put together.
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Q & A with Jerry Pinkney
Q: You’ve illustrated so many classic tales, including The Ugly Duckling, Little Red Riding Hood and Aesop’s Fables. What is it that draws you to these timeless stories?
A: A while back I started to think about those stories that have stayed with me over the years. I don’t remember when I first heard these stories that were read to me when I was growing up in the 1940s, but they have been coursing through my veins for all these years. -
When Hollywood's Star Began to Dim: PW talks with Joseph Kanon
"In 1946, more Americans went to the movies than would ever go again. The obsession with celebrity was much more familial... the HUAC attack on Hollywood was shocking; the actors and moviemakers had been so adulated and considered patriots just a short time before. "
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