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Four Questions for...Emily Gould's Editor, Miranda Popkey
Emily Gould seems to inspire a reaction whatever she does... or writes. With her first novel, "Friendship," just out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, PW talked to Gould's editor, Miranda Popkey, about reputations, Internet haters, and the female ties that bind.
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Q & A with Emily Arnold McCully
Emily Arnold McCully talks about writing her first YA biography, "Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business – And Won!," and why Tarbell's groundbreaking journalism remains relevant today.
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Revisiting the Roosevelts: PW Talks with Geoffrey C. Ward
Historian and documentary screenwriter Geoffrey C. Ward’s "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" is the companion to a PBS series of the same name.
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The Most Untellable Story: PW Talks with Gabriel Weston
British surgeon and memoirist Weston ("Direct Red") makes her fiction debut with "Dirty Work," a riveting portrait of Nancy Mullion, a young ob-gyn in the grips of a personal and professional crisis.
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Not Curtains, After All: PW Talks with Sophie Hannah
Hercule Poirot sleuths again in Sophie Hannah’s "The Monogram Murders."
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Looking to Do Justice: PW Talks with Bill Lashner
In Lashner’s eighth Victor Carl mystery, "Bagmen," the down-on-his-luck lawyer agrees to serve as a bagman for a corrupt politician.
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Patience & Proof: PW Talks with Tania Malik
Against the backdrop of a modernizing India, Malik’s debut novel "Three Bargains" follows Madan from his impoverished childhood to his unexpected rise to wealth in Delhi.
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Voicing the Unspeakable: PW Talks with Lacy M. Johnson
In "The Other Side: A Memoir," Lacy M. Johnson writes about her escape from the ex-boyfriend who kidnapped and raped her.
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Life on the Other Side: PW Talks with Jenny Nordberg
In "The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan," journalist Nordberg investigates the secret world of the "bacha posh"—girls who are dressed and raised as boys by their parents—to understand Afghanistan’s harsh culture of gender apartheid.
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Unknown Pleasures: PW Talks with Ed Lin
Lin’s soulful, surprisingly comic thriller "Ghost Month" parts the curtain on the island enigma that is Taiwan.
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The Element of Choice: PW Talks with Susan Wiggs
"The Beekeeper’s Ball," Wiggs’s second in her Bella Vista Chronicles series (after "The Apple Orchard") juggles a modern love story with a heart-pounding chronicle of the Danish resistance in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen.
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Can Civilians Understand? PW Talks with Helen Thorpe
In "Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War," journalist Thorpe portrays the lives of her subjects before, during, and after their deployments.
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The Intimacy of Trauma: PW Talks with Chelsea Cain
Cain launches a new series with "One Kick," featuring 21-year-old Kick Lannigan, who was kidnapped at age six and rescued five years later.
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Training for Writing: PW Talks with Amy Bloom
"Lucky Us," Bloom’s first novel since "Away," tells the story of Eva and Iris, two sisters who meet as adolescents in the 1940s and, together, seek fame and fortune.
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Q & A with Ashley Bryan
At 90, Ashley Bryan is as full of energy as the groups of schoolchildren who throng through his studio.
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First Fiction Summer 2014: Sharona Muir: A Literary Game Changer
Before Sharona Muir’s debut novel, Invisible Beasts, was a book, it was a game.
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Resident Raconteur: PW Talks with Terrence Holt
Holt, a professor of social medicine and geriatric medicine, uses a fictionalized narrator and composite patients to “make sense of medicine through storytelling” in "Internal Medicine: A Doctor’s Stories."
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A Serial Killer Who’s No Supervillain: PW Talks with Bernard Minier
In French author Minier’s "The Frozen Dead," Toulouse police commandant Martin Servaz must discover how and why a decapitated horse ended up hanging from a cable car platform.
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Fantasy Island: PW Talks with Nick Harkaway
The impending environmental destruction of the island of Mancreu is the setting for Harkaway’s "Tigerman," where a British army veteran forges a friendship with a teenage boy.
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BEA 2014: Short & Poehler Pick Up The Pen
Popular and pretty, short and sassy, two comedy stars make their author debuts.