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The Power of the Web
A computer game developer wreaks havoc after his death via the Internet in Daniel Suarez’s debut, Daemon.
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Fat Is a Laughing Matter
Meeting author-artist Carol Lay in the flesh is wonderfully disconcerting. So closely does she resemble the cartoon version of herself in her whimsical cartoon memoir about dieting, The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude (Villard)—tall, brunette, with black horn-rimmed glasses and, yes, a slender figure—that shaking Lay's hand becomes an almost metaphysical experience.
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Q&A with Tom Beaudoin
Tom Beaudoin is a newly tenured associate professor of Practical Theology at Fordham University. His books include Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X (Jossey-Bass, 1998), Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are with What We Buy (Sheed & Ward, 2007) and, most recently, Witness to Dispossession: The Vocation of a Postmodern Theologian (Orbis). Beaudoin talked to PW about his start in writing, his latest book, and what it feels like to be on the other side of tenure.
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'Nerd' Night in NYC
Author John Green kicked off his national tour for Paper Towns (Dutton) last Thursday evening at the Barnes & Noble in New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood.
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Q & A with Zoë B. Alley and R.W. Alley
Bookshelf spoke with R.W. Alley and Zoë B. Alleyabout their new picture book, There’s a Wolf at the Door (Roaring Brook/Porter).
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What You Won't Find in a Russian History Book
Russian historian Simon Montefiore moves into fiction with Sashenka, about a woman and her family caught in the tumult of 20th-century Russia. You've had tremendous success as a historian—why write fiction? I love reading about the life in difficult periods and looking at the themes that are important to family, and these aren't things you can cover in history books.
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Cornelia Funke 'Inks' Her Final Chapter
This month sees the release of Inkdeath (Scholastic/Chicken House), the third and final book in Cornelia Funke's Inkheart trilogy, which began in 2003 with a book of the same name.
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Q & A with M.T. Anderson
M.T. Anderson’s The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume I: The Pox Party (Candlewick, 2006), about the coming of age of a young, classically educated slave at the outset of the American Revolution, received both a National Book Award and a Printz Honor. The sequel, The Kingdom on the Waves, is in bookstores.
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The Monday Interview: Robert Osborne
An interview with author and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne, whose 80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards is published by Abbeville Press.
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War-Torn Lovers
Janice Y.K. Lee's debut novel, The Piano Teacher, follows the fortunes of a naïve British woman, a laconic and enigmatic British expat and a Hong Kong socialite in Hong Kong before and after its occupation by the Japanese in WWII. Have you always been interested in the war's affect on Hong Kong? I didn't know this would be the subject of my first book.
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In Search of Sages
In How to Live (Reviews, Sept. 29), New Yorker writer Henry Alford talks to the elderly in search of wisdom. What was the inspiration behind this book? I'm fascinated by the idea that humans are one of the few species whose average lifespan exceeds the age at which they procreate. Why, what's the evolutionary reason? I think it's because old people are like living libraries.
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Turning Make-Believe into Real Success
Though the books might be about dolls, the creation of the Doll People series has been anything but child’s play. The Runaway Dolls is the third book in Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin and Brian Selznick’s well-received series that began with The Doll People in 2000.
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Q & A with Neil Gaiman
Children's Bookshelf spoke with Neil Gaiman about his new novel, The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins).
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Prince of Books: PW Talks to Randee St. Nicholas: A Web-Exclusive Q&A
In 21 Nights, the first-ever book by Prince, photographer Randee St. Nicholas follows the musician through 21 sold-out shows at the O2 arena in London, and unearths Prince’s introspective side.
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The Monday Interview: Dilbert Creator Scott Adams
An interview with Dilbert creator Scott Adams, whose Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert, will be published by Andrews McMeel.
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Plot Pursuits
Steve Berry, co-president of the International Thriller Writers, delivers his fourth novel to feature ex—Justice Department agent Cotton Malone, The Charlemagne Pursuit.
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The Monday Interview: Eric Liu, of The True Patriot
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Face Time
CIA researcher Sarah Sims, a young woman rendered faceless by Treacher Collins syndrome, is the unusual protagonist in Angela Hunt's novel The Face.
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Maine Chance
What do you do after writing a national bestseller, giving interviews to the New York Times and the Washington Post and being compared to William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor? When Carolyn Chute, who had such jobs as waitressing, teaching and working in shoe and chicken factories, hit it big with her first novel, The Beans of Egypt, Maine (Ticknor & Fields, 1985), and finally had the mone...
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To Narnia and Back
In The Magician's Book, Laura Miller traces her ever-changing relationship with the best loved books of her childhood, C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.
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