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Hollywood Revealed
Children of L.A. royalty (actor Dennis Hopper and producer Leonard Goldberg) put their pedigree to good use in Celebutantes a collaborative first novel. What inspired you to take up your pens against your hometown? Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper: We met several years ago at the annual Oscar Party at Mr. Chow’s.
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Q&A with Matthew Reinhart
A q&a with the creator of the new Star Wars pop-up.
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Defining Love: Naomi Nowak’s House of Clay
Using romance and cynicism, Nowak defines love and how we use love it to define ourselves.
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Q&A with Peter Cameron
Peter Cameron, best known as an author of adult novels (The City of Your Final Destination; Leap Year) and short story collections (The Half You Don’t Know: Selected Stories) has written a smart and elegant novel under the Francis Foster imprint of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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PW Talks with Walter Mosley: The End of Easy?
Today, Little, Brown publishes Blonde Faith, Walter Mosley’s 10th and possibly final novel to feature Los Angeles investigator Easy Rawlins. PW caught up with him to discuss what may be an important event for Mosely's many loyal fans.
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On the Road with Deborah Wiles
Author Deborah Wiles tells PW that touring for a YA novel is not just about selling books: it’s about getting kids interested in reading them.
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Marvel’s Dark Tower Team Talks Stephen King
We chat with the creative team behind the transformation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower prose novels into comics, discussing the success of the first miniseries, the response from King's fans and the unique challenges of translating fiction into sequential art.
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A Winning Week: PW Talks with Stuart Dybek
Short story writer and poet Stuart Dybek, winner of a MacArthur "Genius" grant and the Rae Award for the Short Story, has had a really big week. PW checked in with him to see how it's been.
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Ravioli Lost, Adventure Found
In The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken, Laura Schenone's search for her great-grandmother's ravioli recipe takes her to Genoa and back to New Jersey.
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The Big Uneasy
Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow, Johnson's debut, charts a light-skinned black girl's uneasy coming-of-age in 1970s New Orleans.
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Q&A with Ellen Emerson White
Ellen Emerson White was an 18-year-old freshman at Tufts University when she wrote her first novel, Friends for Life, a prep school murder mystery that was published in 1983.
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On the Road with Mike Sager
Mike Sager has what some journalists might call a dream job, and others a nightmare. Writing for magazines like Esquire and Rolling Stone, he immerses himself in the lives of celebrities like Rosanne Barr and Kobe Bryant, often actually living with them for months at a time, and comes back with pieces that are equally hilarious and touching.
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A Samurai Sleuth
Laura Joh Rowland is the author of The Snow Empress, her 12th mystery set in 17th-century Japan to feature Sano Ichiro, a high official in the shogun court.
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Alternate Reality
Michael Chabon has just come back from a family vacation in Maine.
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A Working Life
Studs Terkel, oral historian and author of the forthcoming memoir Touch and Go, talks about broadcast technology and finally turning the tape recorder on himself.
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On The Road with Jennifer Gilmore
Former Harcourt publicity director turned full-time author talks to PW about the "slow series of humiliations" that is the book tour.
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A Forensic Thriller
During my days as a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney's office, I had the privilege of working with a brilliant young forensic pathologist in the city's office of the chief medical examiner.
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Coming to America: A PW Profile of Ha Jin
The author of the award-winning novel Waiting and other works that have made the personal and political conflicts of people in his native China resonate with Western readers, turns his eye to the American scene in his forthcoming book A Free Life.



