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Q & A with Trent Reedy
For "Divided We Fall," Trent Reedy draws upon his time as an Army National Guardsman to tell the story of a young man caught up in an impossible struggle that threatens to tear America apart.
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A Tale of Trust and Betrayal: PW Talks with Colette McBeth
A London-based TV news reporter, Rachel Walsh, investigates the disappearance of a young woman who turns out to be her former best friend, in Colette McBeth’s first novel, Precious Thing.
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Artificial Categorizations: PW Talks with Helen Oyeyemi
Nigerian-born Brit Helen Oyeyemi, whose first novel was published when she was 20, is a constant on “best of” lists like Granta’s.
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Cretaceous Traces: PW Talks with Anthony J. Martin
In Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils, paleontologist Martin explores dinosaur life through ichnology—the study of tracks, nests, droppings, and other non-bone relics of ancient life.
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Death Lessons for Life: PW Talks With David R. Dow
As a lawyer who defends inmates on death row, David Dow confronts death on daily basis.
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Q & A with Melissa Gilbert
In "Daisy and Josephine," the "Little House on the Prairie" star's first picture book, a lonely girl travels around the world with her celebrity father, just like Melissa Gilbert did while growing up.
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Four Questions for...Author Tiphanie Yanique
Last month Yanique was awarded the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize for 'Land of Love and Drowning.'
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Junior Ray Returns: Q&A with John Pritchard
John Pritchard talks about Junior Ray’s new adventures as a “diktective” in "Sailing to Alluvium", the third installment of his critically acclaimed series.
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The Teller and the Tale: PW Talks with Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn (Up in the Air) had no idea what he was in for when he agreed to deliver an injured dog to “Clark Rockefeller,” a gifted con man and murderer, and the subject of Kirn’s gripping Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade.
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‘My Fair Lady’ Meets ‘Psycho’: PW Talks with Jean Zimmerman
A feral child unsettles Gilded Age New York City in Jean Zimmerman’s Savage Girl.
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Forces of Nature: PW Talks with Amy Greene
Greene’s second novel, Long Man, is a family chronicle set in Tennessee, in which a girl disappears and a river keeps rising.
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Video: Colum McCann on 'TransAtlantic'
We talk with Colum McCann about his new book, "TransAtlantic," what inspired him to write it, and the two novels he has sitting in a drawer.
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Art and Activism: PW Talks with Ruth Feldstein
In How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford Univ., Jan.), Feldstein examines the ways in which a loosely-connected group of black women mingled celebrity, art, and activism in the 1960s and ‘70s.
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Blurring the Genre Line: PW Talks with Rachel Cantor
Rachel Cantor’s wildly original first book, "A Highly Unlikely Scenario" (Melville, Jan.), follows the adventures of Leonard, a loveable shut-in and great listener whose only contact with the outside world comes through his job manning Neetsa Pizza’s complaints hotline.
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American Antiheroes: PW Talks with Paul Martin
Former National Geographic editor Martin’s Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem profiles some of the most abominable and inventive criminals in American history.
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Providence Is Different: PW Talks with Bruce DeSilva
In Bruce DeSilva’s third Liam Mulligan crime novel, Providence Rag, the reporter/sleuth must balance honesty with public safety.
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Joyful Vulgarity: PW Talks with Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore’s The Serpent of Venice is a sequel to Fool that mashes up Poe and two Shakespearean tragedies—Othello and The Merchant of Venice—and is set in 13th-century Italy.
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Q & A with Karen Foxlee
Australian novelist Karen Foxlee's new quasi-fairy tale, "Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy," follows a girl on a quest within a fantastical and dangerous museum.
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Q & A with Wendy McClure
With "Wanderville," memoirist, editor, columnist and blogger Wendy McClure has donned yet another hat – children's novelist.
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Life Lessons: PW Talks with David Menasche
First-time memoirist David Menasche is the kind of teacher who cares about his students as much as the literature on his syllabus, remembering his pupils’ insights and strengths, keeping in touch with them long after their shared classroom time ends.