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The All American Thanksgiving: David Rosengarten Talks Turkey
David Rosengarten is one of the original chef presenters on the Food Network (now celebrating its 10th anniversary). Since leaving TV, he has written cookbooks, appeared on radio--where he is a regular on The Splendid Table--and launched The Rosengarten Report.
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Who Is Jan Bondeson and Why Is He Telling These Strange Stories?
PW asks Jan Bondeson, "What draws you to these types of subjects?"
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Joe Sacco, Comics Journalist
PW asks Joe Sacco, "Tell us why you returned to Bosnia and Sarajevo and about Neven, the 'fixer.'"
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Mighty Aphrodite
PW asks Russell Andrews, "How did Aphrodite originate?"
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Sinners, Saints and Sacred Folly
PW asks Joanne Harris, "Why does Holy Fools' Juliette seem like an ancestor of Chocolat's Vianne? "
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The Politics of Star-Crossed Lovers
PW asks Marge Piercy, "What inspired you to write about the star-crossed lovers in your 16th novel, The Third Child?"
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Grossman Takes on El Quixote
PW asks Elizabeth Grossman, "What was it like to get offered the translation of Don Quixote?"
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Writing by the Seat of Her Pants
PW asks Madeline Hunter, "How have you written so much in so little time while juggling a family and a teaching career?"
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Entrepreneurial Girl Power
PW asks Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio, "How did your experiences help you write The Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Business?"
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Still Refusing to Bow the Knee
PW asks Gerry Adams, "Why did you decide to write your autobiography [A Farther Shore] now?
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The Effects of Brutality
PW asks Brad Land, "Why did you write Goat?"
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A Full Life
PW asks Marielle Bancou-Segal, "Who do you think would benefit most from reading this story?"
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On the Road, Redux
PW asks Jeff Sharlet, "Why the title Killing the Buddha?"
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Chasing Storms and Serial Killers
PW asks Alice Blanchard, "Your novel Breathtaker takes place during tornado season. Have you ever seen, or been in the path of, a tornado?"
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A Life in Words
PW asks Gay Talese, "How did The Gay Talese Reader come about?"
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Urban Personalities
Husband-and-wife collaborators Jim and Kate McMullan have followed up their award-winning picture book, I Stink!, narrated by a feisty city garbage truck, with I'm Mighty!, in which a tugboat struts his stuff on an animated tour of his harbor.
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Mom, Baseball, Apple Pie and Jesus
PW asks Stephen Prothero, "You've spent much of your career studying Asian religions—how did you get interested in Jesus?"
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It's Not Just for the Money
PW asks A.E. Hotchner, "How did Paul Newman come up with the idea of opening a restaurant?"
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Discovering the World
PW asks Peter Sis, "What attracted you to the subject of Charles Darwin?"
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From Splatterpunk to Bullets
PW asks David Schow, "Bullets of Rain is your first novel since 1989. Why the long break?"



