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Local Characters: PW Talks with Beth Macy
In her new book, journalist Macy traces the effects of globalization on American manufacturing via the story of one Virginia family.
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Death on the Menu: PW Talks with Alexander Campion
Food and wine mix with crime in Campion’s "Murder on the Mediterranean," his fifth novel featuring French policewoman Capucine le Tellier and her epicurean husband, Alexandre de Huguelet.
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Q & A with Alan Rabinowitz
Zoologist Alan Rabinowitz's first children's book, "A Boy and a Jaguar," conveys his passion for and skill at communicating with animals.
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Q & A with Gabi Swiatkowska
Illustrator Gabi Swiatkowska's first solo effort, "Queen on Wednesday," is about a girl who finds that being queen is more than she bargained for.
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Intervention, Not Incarceration: PW Talks with Nell Bernstein
In "Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison," journalist Bernstein offers a passionate call to action.
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A Massive Excuse to Read Filth All Day: PW Talks with Antonia Hodgson
Hodgson, the editor-in-chief of Little, Brown U.K., makes her fiction debut with "The Devil in the Marshalsea," a historical mystery.
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Heartache and Humor: PW Talks with Courtney Maum
Maum’s debut novel, "I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You," views monogamy and love through the eyes of an artist, Richard, in Paris.
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A Near-Future America: PW Talks with Marcus Sakey
“A Better World,” book two of Sakey’s near-future Brilliance Saga, traces the physical and psychological conflicts that arise when 1% of the world’s population possesses paranormal talents.
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Q & A with Nina LaCour
Nina LaCour's latest novel, "Everything Leads to You," about a romance between two young women, is the love story she knew she'd eventually write.
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Suspicious Suicides in Barcelona: PW Talks with Antonio Hill
In Spanish author Hill’s "The Good Suicides," Insp. Hector Salgado must discover why the employees of Almany Cosmetics are killing themselves, one by one.
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The Dead and the Quick: PW Talks with Lauren Owen
In Owen’s debut novel, "The Quick," the vampire community in Victorian London consists of both
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Estuary Engineering: PW Talks with Ted Steinberg
Steinberg’s fascinating and encyclopedic "Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York" covers 300 years of one of the world’s most important estuaries.
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Low-Wage Feline Wranglers: PW Talks with Elaine Viets
Viets’s latest Dead-End Job mystery, "Catnapped!," explores the high-stakes world of show cats and their low-wage feline wranglers.
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Q & A with Peter Sís
In his new picture book, "The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry," Peter Sís celebrates an adventurer whose philosophical work has been compared to his own.
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The Family That Cooks Together...: PW Talks with Laurie David
In 'The Family Cooks,' author/activist Laurie David’s second cookbook, the importance of the family table and home cooking are at the heart of her philosophy for raising the next generation of healthy eaters.
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Cosmic Conundrums: PW Talks with Marcelo Gleiser
Dartmouth College physicist and astronomer Gleiser claims that while there are limits to what we can learn about the universe, every dead-end reveals new avenues of inquiry.
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Murder and Writing Lessons: PW Talks with Joel Dicker
In Swiss author Dicker’s mystery, "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair," Marcus Goldman, a young writer based in New York, travels to New Hampshire to prove that his college mentor, celebrated author Harry Quebert, didn’t murder his teenage lover, Nola Kellergan, years before.
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Possession: PW Talks with Lily King
"Euphoria," the engrossing fourth book from King, is based on a chance encounter between the anthropologists Margaret Mead, Ron Fortune, and Gregory Bateson in 1930s Papua New Guinea.
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A Rogue’s Tale: PW Talks with Scott Phillips
Set in 1878, Phillips’s excellent new novel, "Hop Alley" (Counterpoint), continues the adventures of Bill Ogden, frontier photographer and libertine.
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Q & A with Byron Barton
Thirteen years after "My Car," award-winning author-illustrator Byron Barton is back with a companion picture book, "My Bus."