Writing What You Want to Read: PW Talks with Ingrid Thoft
Ingrid Thoft’s first novel, Loyalty, is out this week from Putnam. more...cookbooks and more. Sign up here!
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Phishheads & Juggalos: PW Talks With Nathan Rabin
Former Onion A.V. Club editor Rabin’s memoir You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me documents his adventures with the legions of misunderstood fans who follow jam-band Phish and rap group Insane Clown Posse.
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Just DeWitt: PW Talks With Sara Gran
Gran continues to reinvent the crime novel with her latest, Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, in which her inimitable protagonist follows a tangled web of cases involving the murder of Claire’s musician ex-boyfriend, the mysterious theft of a group of miniature horses, and a trip down the rabbit hole of her own psyche.
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The Old Neighborhood: PW Talks with Hannah Weyer
In On the Come Up, filmmaker and debut novelist Hannah Weyer captures the fearlessness behind one girl’s struggle to seek a better life, and the beauty inherent in the journey.
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Pride, with Extreme Prejudice: PW Talks with Lindsay Ashford
Was Jane Austen murdered? Lindsay Ashford’s The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen offers an answer.
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Parents: Say No to Screens: PW Talks with Catherine Steiner-Adair
In The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age (Aug.) clinical psychologist
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Eccentric Nation: PW Talks with Brenda Wineapple
Brenda Wineapple’s Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877 is a sweeping work of American history, chronicling a period of immense change through the era’s monumental events and the diverse American personalities behind them.
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A Stable Center: PW Talk with Rebecca Lee
"I’m a really slow writer, glacially slow. I write every day, every morning, but sometimes it’s not even writing, it’s just sitting there staring at the story, wondering about it."
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The Art of Storytelling: PW Talks with Michael Paterniti
In his new book, The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, and Revenge and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese, Michael Paterniti’s (Driving Mr. Albert) zestful storytelling carries us along on a delightful journey through a Spanish village rich with the traditions of food and family.
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Exploring from Within: PW Talks with Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light follows an intrepid little girl on what will prove to be one of the most important and heartbreaking nights of her life.
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Knitting a Parachute After Jumping Out of a Plane: PW Talks with Robin Blake
In Robin Blake’s second 18th-century historical, Dark Waters, coroner Titus Cragg and Dr. Luke Fidelis investigate politically motivated murders.
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