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How John Camp Became Bestselling Author John Sandford
Prolific bestselling novelist John Sandford talks about why he uses a pseudonym and how his journalism background has helped his fiction writing career.
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Four Questions for... Cheryl Klein
This fall, Scholastic editor Cheryl Klein moves to the other side of the desk, with her own book, 'The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults.'
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A Storyteller Behind Every Story: PW Talks with Elsa Hart
Hart’s 18th-century sleuth, Li Du, must solve a monk’s murder in 'The White Mirror.'
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Bruce Timm Brings Alan Moore's 'The Killing Joke' to Film
Animator, writer, and artist Bruce Timm talks with PW about adapting one of the most famous Batman graphic novels of all time, trying to animate a master comics artist’s style, and more.
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Four Questions for... Adriana Mather
There's an audible howling on the line as Adriana Mather settles in to talk about her debut novel 'How to Hang a Witch' from her Santa Monica home.
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Spirits and Silver: PW Talks with Ann Parker
Parker’s fifth Silver Rush mystery, 'What Gold Buys,' takes series heroine Inez Stannert to Leadville, Colo., in 1880.
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Q & A with Beth Revis
For her latest book, 'A World Without You,' Beth Revis swaps space and explosions for a story that is set in the contemporary world.
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Four Questions for...'Ask Polly,' aka Heather Havrilesky
The pen behind the 'New York' magazine advice column Ask Polly, whose new book 'How to Be a Person in the World' publishes today, talked to us about what it's like to counsel the distressed and forlorn.
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When the Masters of Lunacy Was a Thing: PW Talks with Stephen Gallagher
In Gallagher's new mystery, 'The Authentic William James,' an unusual sleuth must determine whether or not an arsonist is sane.
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The Limits of American Realism: PW Talks with Mauro Javier Cardenas
Cardenas's 'The Revolutionaries' is a delirious account of several Ecuadorians attempting to wrest control of their country from brutal oligarchs and buffoonish populists.
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Finding the Real Patricia Hearst: PW Talks with Jeffrey Toobin
In 'American Heiress,' journalist Toobin provides the definitive account of the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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Q & A with William Grill
William Grill's 'The Wolves of Currumpaw' continues his interest in the natural world – and man's fraught place in it – but with a new location, and in a new palette.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Brings Mycroft Holmes to Comics
The author and former basketball superstar discusses his love for the work of Arthur Conan Doyle, what it's like to change gears from writing fiction to writing for comics, and his inspirations for the roguish Mycroft Holmes.
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Julio Bevione Aims to Motivate Readers with New Book
The Argentina-born author says 'Activate Your GPS!' aims to help readers choose the right paths in life.
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A Sensible Victorian Sleuth: PW Talks with Kate Saunders
British author Saunders launches a new Victorian mystery series with "The Secrets of Wishtide," which explores the public and private faces of 1850 London.
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The Difference Between Solitude and Loneliness: PW Talks with Jane Alison
In "Nine Island," Alison tells the story of a solitary woman living in a Miami high-rise apartment, who considers retiring from love and is obsessed with Ovid’s poems.
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Women Dealing with Women: PW Talks with Louisa Ermelino
The stories in 'Malafemmena' by PW reviews director Louisa Ermelino, which will be published by Sarabande Books in August, invoke a range of experiential material: world travel, love affairs; all manner of illicit drugs; and the vividly articulated streets of New York Italian Americans in the Greenwich Village of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Spotlight on Barbara Rice DeShong, Author of ‘The Mercy’
Barbara Rice DeShong’s The Mercy is a chilling and ultimately redemptive psychological thriller with deep roots.
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Love in a Time of Polio: PW Talks with Joan London
London’s novel, 'The Golden Age,' is set in Australia in and around a children’s convalescent home of the same name and chronicles the love between two young polio survivors.
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Reporting On a Father's Gender Transition: PW Talks With Susan Faludi
In 'In the Darkroom,' journalist Faludi explores her father's life and gender transition.