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On Tomato Farming
In Heirloom (Reviews, May 12), Tim Stark discusses his journey from Brooklyn to rural Pennsylvania to farm. In the book, you say that none of your neighbors are organic farmers. What made you decide to grow organically? Chemicals can be gross and smell awful, so when I started, I did everything by hand.
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The Original Dr. Feelgood
In The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex (Reviews, May 19), Lambda award-winner Kennedy investigates the life of the elusive author of The Joy of Sex and profiles a carnival of eccentrics, altruists and visionaries. How did you get interested in Alex Comfort? I rediscovered him on the Kinsey Institute Web site where I was spelunking around for my previous book [The First Man-Made Man].
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Cultivating and Creating Culture
A writer and cultural critic encourages Christians to not only embrace culture but create more of it. What motivated you to write Culture Making? One of the things that initially motivated me was thinking about how cultures change. As I read the work of academic sociologists like Peter Berger, I became really convinced that the only way that cultures change is when people make more culture.
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Q&A with Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Catherine Gilbert Murdoch, the author of Dairy Queen and its sequel, The Off Season, took a break from writing book three about D.J. and her family with a fantasy novel about a teen-aged princess who must save her kingdom, Princess Ben (Houghton Mifflin).
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The English Criminal Lifestyle
Martina Cole, the #1 bestselling author of adult fiction in the U.K., makes her U.S. debut with Close, a saga about one underworld London family over a period of 40 years.
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Jackets Required: The Lazarus Project
For the most part, this jacket art works. But that eyeball... concave lens distortion, anyone?
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Searching for Universal Love: PW Talks with Stephenie Meyer: A Web-Exclusive Q&A
The Hostby Stephenie Meyer, author of the bestselling Twilight YA series (Twilight, the film, is now in production, slated for a Dec. release), features a love triangle in two bodies. Melanie, a rebel human, is the reluctant host “soul” for Wanderer, an extraterrestrial whose race has successfully invaded a near-future earth. Both struggle with their feelings for Jared, Melanie’s human boyfriend.
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Girls and Violence
Best known for her Grant County thrillers (Blindsighted, etc.), Karin Slaughter has written a sequel, Fractured, to her 2006 stand-alone, Triptych, which introduced an agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Will Trent, who's dyslexic.
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The Secret Lives of Gene Simmons
In Ladies of the Night, the former Kiss member discusses the world's oldest profession.
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Is 'Tolerance' a Dirty Word?
In Beyond Tolerance, a former New York Times religion reporter argues for deeper interfaith understanding.
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PW's Barbara Walters Interview
Barbara Walters has been on television since 1961 and while she’s interviewed hundreds of celebrities, criminals and world leaders, she’s managed to keep her own life private…until now.
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The Spy Thriller Rules
Central Europe provides the locale for Rules of Deception, California novelist Christopher Reich's new spy novel.
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The Importance of Being God
Though writers are known for their egos, few have come out and literally declared themselves God. New Wave fantasist and poet Thomas M. Disch does just that in The Word of God or, Holy Writ Rewritten.
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History Is the Best Novelist
Alan Furst has published 10 acclaimed espionage novels set in the years just before and during the Second World War, most recently The Spies of Warsaw.
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The Case Against Intelligent Design
Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller is a leading opponent of intelligent design. In Only a Theory, he explains why.
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Orson Scott Card's Ender Comics
Marvel Comics and renowned science fiction writer Orson Scott Card announced at last weekend’s New York Comics Convention a new series of comics based on Ender's Game.
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A Place on Earth for Them
In the 1960s, the severely mentally ill began to be turned out of public hospitals—too often with tragic consequences. In The Insanity Offense, E. Fuller Torrey explores the issues.
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Listening to Voices
After two suspense novels featuring New York City freelance reporter Ridley Jones, Beautiful Lies and Sliver of Truth, Lisa Unger tries her hand at a stand-alone thriller, Black Out.
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Hamlet, and the Morality of Training a Dog: PW Talks with David Wroblewski
A PW Web-Exclusive Q&A: David Wroblewski’s first novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, is set on a farm in northern Wisconsin, where the Sawtelle family raises a fictional breed of dogs.
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A Double-date with Your Dad
Bob Morris, who writes for the New York Times Sunday Styles section, has authored this humorous, tender memoir, Assisted Loving, about mending emotional rifts with aging parents and the art of senior dating.
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