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The Role of a Lifetime: Nia Vardalos
For actress, writer, and director Nia Vardalos, her greatest achievement was adopting a daughter in 2008.
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Maureen Johnson: The Queen of Teen
YA writer Maureen Johnson has had a very good decade.
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A Loving Tribute: Maurice Sendak on 'My Brother's Book'
Editor Michael di Capua is talking about My Brother's Book, Maurice Sendak's final work, as he looks through the folder he kept for the project.
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Just Saying “Yes”: Joyce Carol Oates
One frigid night last January, a diminutive woman in a full-length down coat and decidedly feminine hat raced across the train tracks to the lot where her car was parked.
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Religion Update February 2013: In Profile
Profiles of six notable religion authors with new books coming this spring.
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Religion Update February 2013: Morality and Satire: Erin McGraw
In her newest novel, Better Food for a Better World (Wipf and Stock/Slant), Erin McGraw says she continues to delve into the theme of what it takes to be a good person. But this time she uses a new approach: satire.
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Religion Update February 2013: Regency Pioneer: Julie Klassen
What’s so Christian about the stories of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters?
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Religion Update February 2013: The God of Second Chances: Katie Ganshert
The general plot of Katie Ganshert’s second novel, Wishing on Willows could easily be a feature story in any small town American newspaper.
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Religion Update February 2013: The Faith of Pastors’ Wives: Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
It’s still a bit new for Lisa Takeuchi Cullen to be the subject of an interview. She is accustomed to being the interviewer; until 2009 she was a foreign correspondent and staff writer for Time magazine, and before that worked for Money, Financial Planning, and Ladies’ Home Journal.
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Religion Update February 2013: Tea and Empathy: Lisa Samson
After 20 years of writing and publishing novels, Christy Award–winner Lisa Samson decided to take an extended break.
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Religion Update February 2013: Cat on a Mission: Jim Kraus
To say that Jim Kraus’s life is enriched by the animals who share his family’s home—a miniature schnauzer named Rufus and an “ill-tempered” Siberian cat named Petey—would be an understatement.
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Politics and Prose: Nihad Sirees
A banned writer in an unnamed city on the 20th anniversary of the assumption of power by the unnamed despotic ruler in an unnamed Middle Eastern country... This is the setup for banned Syrian writer Nihad Sirees’s powerful, prescient novel The Silence and the Roar (Other Press, March).
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First Fiction 2014: The Iraq War, a Dozen Ways - Phil Klay
I wanted to get at a range of veteran experiences,” Phil Klay says of his short story collection, Redeployment, which will be published in March by Penguin Press.
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First Fiction 2013: Anthony Marra: Love in Wartime
When Anthony Marra was a college student studying in Russia, he traveled through the Chechnya region. That experience would inspire the 28-year-old Marra, a Whiting Writers’ award winner and current Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, to pen his debut, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.
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First Fiction 2013: Alexander Soderberg: Swedish Suspense
Swedish Suspense Alexander Söderberg was a screenwriter for Swedish television, a script editor, and a script doctor before he wrote The Andalucian Friend (Crown, March), his debut novel and the first in a crime-novel trilogy.
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First Fiction 2013: Helene Wecker: Supernatural Love
In Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Jinni (Harper, April), two supernatural beings, one from the Jewish tradition and one from the Arab tradition, meet in turn-of-the-century New York.
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First Fiction 2013: Elliott Holt: Soviet Spy Story
In 1982, then eight-year-old Elliott Holt closely followed the story of Samantha Smith, the 10-year-old American girl who wrote to Yuri Andropov asking for peace and was invited to make a highly publicized visit to the U.S.S.R. in response.
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First Fiction 2013: Anton DiSclafani: Horses and a Heroine
Sarah McGrath, executive editor of Riverhead Books, who acquired Anton DiSclafani’s debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls (June) from agent Dorian Karchmar at William Morris Endeavor, promises, “You truly don’t have to be a horse person to fall in love with this book, but there’s no denying the added sense of strength, beauty, and foreboding those animals bring to the story.”
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First Fiction 2013: Eugen Ruge: East Meets West
Eugen Ruge’s debut novel, In Times of Fading Light (Graywolf, June), follows four generations of the same German family for 50 years, from 1952 to 2001, as the Berlin Wall falls in the background.
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First Fiction 2013: Tanis Rideout: Climbing to the Summit
Everest climber George Mallory’s story—his strong love for his wife, Ruth, and his desire to conquer the world’s highest mountain—are the basis for Tanis Rideout's debut novel, Above All Things (Putnam/Amy Einhorn, Feb.).
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